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Musicians 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
by angry_octet 10y ago
Musicians 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.
- nicky0 10y agoYou were replying to my comment asking for a definition.