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This will of course be a matter of personal preferences, but yes, I concur with the sentiment: Apple made its MacBook line worse, not better: - They confine be
by gruturo 9y ago
This will of course be a matter of personal preferences, but yes, I concur with the sentiment: Apple made its MacBook line worse, not better:
- They confine better specs to the touchbar models, which I would tolerate (not love) if it had the decency of starting after the ESC key. As it is, it's an abomination which must die, die, die.
- They give you USB-C ports (yay) at the expense of leaving you with zero USB-A ports (nay).
- They supply you with a low spec charging cable, indistinguishable from a high spec one
- They took away MagSafe which I love and has saved my laptop
- They took away the SD slot (but left the headphones jack? While arguing in favor of its removal on the iPhone? A bit inconsistent?)
- They massively bumped prices, making it considerably less appealing from a price/specs ratio perspective
- ...and they max out at 16GB just as you criticized the Lenovo.
- iwasakabukiman 9y agoFor the headphone jack, I'd argue that different use cases for laptop and phones mean removing the headphone jack on one and leaving it on the other is justifiable. The other things you mentioned are definitely annoyances I run into occasionally with my MacBook Pro. > - They supply you with a low spec charging cable, indistinguishable from a high spec one What do you mean? My laptop came with an 87W charger and a cable that works fine with it.
- gruturo 9y ago>> - They supply you with a low spec charging cable, indistinguishable from a high spec one >What do you mean? My laptop came with an 87W charger and a cable that works fine with it. The supplied USB-C cable only supports USB-2 data speeds (480Mbps). If you want to achieve USB-3 or 3.1 speeds (either 5Gbps or 10 Gbps), while still having the full 5A charging current supported by the 87W charger, you need to buy this $12.99 cable from monoprice: https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=24285 https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=24285 We're talking a laptop which can be configured between $2500 and $4100 and you need to go buy a better cable for it. I'm sorry but this is not the Apple I used to love.
- crtasm 9y agoSame with the recently launched Keyone phone from Blackberry, at least it prompted me to learn about the extra pins on a USB3 connection.