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If it's meant to be used at a desk all the time why does it have to be thin and light?
by bodas 8y ago
If it's meant to be used at a desk all the time why does it have to be thin and light?
- lclarkmichalek 8y agoBecause I go to meetings and work from home sometimes. Only thing I'd use a standard USB for would be charging, which isn't really something I do in meetings, and I have plenty of chargers at home.
- bodas 8y agoAs someone who occasionally writes apps for iPhone I have to use the USB port all the damn time.
- briandear 8y agoThey make thunderbolt lightning cables.
- indemnity 8y agoHave you tried the WiFi running/debugging? Works pretty well for me.
- jason_slack 8y agoGood point. I forget about Wifi running and debugging.
- blhack 8y agoThis is seriously where we're supposed to be for a pro laptop? It shouldn't work "pretty well" when you're using a $2000+ machine. It should work perfectly every single time. This is what built apple into the company it is. "pretty well" wasn't good enough. This sounds like the type of concession I would have made in 2005 on my gentoo laptop. "Yeah, USB doesn't work, but there is a workaround that sends that data over wifi! It even usually works!"
- wilsonnb2 8y agoUhm, no, you're just supposed to spend the $19 on a USB C -> Lightning cable to connect them. The wifi thing is just convenient for many people. If it's not good enough or "pro enough" for you, there is still a cable that you can use. I don't really see the problem here. Assuming I buy the base model MacBook Pro and the cheapest iPhone 8, I've just spent $2000 dollars and I don't see how I can justify complaining that I need to spend an extra 1% on a cable to connect them.
- indemnity 8y agoIt's not a workaround, it's an additional capability. Before they added this feature, a USB cable was the only way to do this, and it still works, and works reliably. If you have a USB-A connector on your Lightning cable, you'll need an adapter, if you have a USB-C connector, you won't. From the OP's complaint, he didn't like having to do this with USB, so I suggested the WiFi option to avoid cables. Maybe you read that as "the USB option does not work", which is not the case. WiFi depends on the quality of your WiFi network. Mine is rock solid, so "pretty well" is my engineer answer to cover the cases when AP is flakey, range is crap, etc.
- manigandham 8y agoYou didn't answer the question. It doesn't need to be so dysfunctionally thin and light to travel between work and home sometimes. Nobody is going to suffer from an extra pound of weight.
- georgebarnett 8y agoHe did answer the question, only with reasons that you don't seem to agree with. I also mostly use my MBP plugged in and yet still want my laptop to be as light and thin as possible for when I'm carrying it around during the day/commuting. An extra pound of weight makes a huge difference to me walking home.
- manigandham 8y ago> An extra pound of weight makes a huge difference to me walking home. That's hard to believe. Are you walking 50 miles? How would you notice an extra pound? What about the rest of the stuff you carry, your clothes, your shoes? Is everything else already optimized? Why does the (likely) most expensive full-size computing device need to lose weight vs everything else, especially when it's infringing on the actual user experience of working with it?
- coldseattle 8y agoNot to mention the bag of adapters and hubs you need to function with a computer with just a single USB-C port.
- slow_donkey 8y agoIs it really that hard to believe that some people prefer to have a lighter laptop. My daily driver is thinkpad but I really appreciate my mbp when traveling or for conferences because it's much more portable and I can carry it with ease
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