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There's a non-zero chance that starting this program now means the next release of the MacBook and MacBook Pro lines is going to have another keyboard redesign.
by chipotle_coyote 8y ago
There's a non-zero chance that starting this program now means the next release of the MacBook and MacBook Pro lines is going to have another keyboard redesign. I don't mean that to sound conspiratorial, but this is an admission of a problem that's attracted a lot of attention over the last ~12 months that they've been conspicuously silent on, and this makes me suspect that they at least think they've gotten the bugs worked out. (Said bugs are apparently dust mites.)
I'd like to see at least one MacBook Pro model that at least threw the SD slot and HDMI port back in. And, sure, USB-A, but I suspect that ship has sailed no matter how much of a mess USB-C objectively is. Of course, I'd like to just see the MBP models all switch to the Magic Keyboard design even though it will -- gasp! -- make the machine a millimeter thicker...
- mortenjorck 8y agoIt would be very un-Apple-like to backtrack on USB (much as I'd like them to), but reintroducing HDMI and SD wouldn't be a backtrack. The difference is that one could reasonably assert that the industry will eventually migrate away from USB-A (even if the timeframe for that is highly debatable). But there is no case at all to be made for moving away from HDMI or SD – the idea of using USB-C ports instead of HDMI on TVs and projectors is only in its earliest proposals, and there is nothing on the camera industry's horizon to replace SD cards with any kind of USB-C compatible media. USB-A may be superseded (if only technically) by USB-C, but HDMI and SD have no current successor.
- sumedh 8y agoWhy cant USB-C be a successor for HDMI?
- chx 8y agoCable length is an issue. A fifty feet HDMI cable at Monoprice is less than 25 USD. A similar USB 3.0 cable needs to be active and costs 100 USD. My mind boggles at the thought of a 50ft USB C cable.
- tonyedgecombe 8y agoI can't imagine many people are buying fifty feet cables.
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- chx 8y agoThe only reason HDMI still exists over the vastly superior DisplayPort is the cable length. The DP standard, if memory serves, limits the cable to 3 metres / 10 feet so the max cheap passive cable you can buy on Amazon is obviously 15 feet. Meanwhile, the HDMI standard has no cable length limit but in practice 50 ft is the longest passive you can buy.
- freehunter 8y agoI'd say the only reason HDMI still exists is because everything has HDMI built in. The best standard doesn't always win, the most prolific one does.
- chx 8y agoWhen DP came out in 2008 it already supported 4K and HDMI didn't.
- freehunter 8y agoI don't see how that's in any way an argument against "the best standards don't always win".
- jakobegger 8y agoEvery conference room with a projector on the ceiling needs a long cable.
- sumedh 8y agoGood point, although I assume the price would fall in the coming years.
- 21 8y agoTo the designers at Apple any sort of hole is like a disease that needs to be fix.
- matwood 8y agoI like USB-C. It's cut down on the number of things I plug in and out of the computer by half.