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In fact, the only thing I don't like about this utterly brilliant piece is that it revolves only around developers. It would have been a much stronger statement
by mrzool 10y ago
In fact, the only thing I don't like about this utterly brilliant piece is that it revolves only around developers. It would have been a much stronger statement if only :%s/developers/professionals.
- idlewords 10y agoYou're right—point taken!
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- nicky0 10y agoHow would you define 'professionals' in this context? Professonal what? It seems the definition is "anyone for whom this product is unsuitable", as in "well this laptop may be OK for [x] but for a real professional like me it is a joke".
- mrzool 10y agoWell, the categories which the MBP is supposedly targeted to: graphic/web designers, photographers, musicians, artists, filmmakers and makers of any kind. Of course that includes developers. Seems to me that the new features appeal more to the casual user who uses its laptop for leisure (your [x]) than the professional.
- angry_octet 10y agoMusicians need ports, and already have gear to lug around; they don't need more dongles. A single standard usb 3 port would have gone a long way. It is also a massive pain when someone wants to give you something on a usb stick. Same goes for people in publishing and other content creation industries. People who want to plug an external monitor in to give a ppt without needing a special dongle.
- nicky0 10y agoThis is your definition of "professionals"? People who use USB sticks, and external monitors for ppt?
- idlewords 10y agoThat is a perfectly sensible definition of actual professional use. Not two days ago I presented at a conference where I had to plug an HDMI cable into my laptop, and in the middle of setting that up, I transferred over a backup copy of my presentation to the house laptop on a USB stick. Now maybe I am not a professional in your eyes. But I was wearing a suit!
- illumin8 10y agoI already carry a dongle to convert Thunderbolt to VGA, because you can't count on conference room projectors having a connector made in the last decade... Now I just need to carry one more for HDMI. I'm fairly certain that a USB-c to standard USB port will also be a dongle that every Macbook Pro owner will need to carry. Apple should bundle 2 with every Macbook Pro, but the whiners would still complain...
- nicky0 10y agoYou are very much a professional in my eyes. In which case I don't see a problem wit the new MacBook. It has four ports each of which supports USB and DisplayPort. Yes, you need either a new cable, a new flash drive, or an adapter. But don't pretend that makes this laptop totally unsuitable for your use.
- angry_octet 10y agoI never said that was my definition of "professionals". That is you being snarky. The common themes to wanting a Macbook Pro is that you want more grunt and more I/O, and you have the money to pay for it. A common need among this group is exchanging large data sets, and not being willing to use iCloud/Dropbox/Google Drive to do it for a variety of reasons, like speed, convenience, confidentiality. These are also people who often want to do this in a variety of locations.