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I wasn’t aware that headphone jacks on laptops were a cause for celebration now. A sad state of affairs...
by dangwu 8y ago
I wasn’t aware that headphone jacks on laptops were a cause for celebration now. A sad state of affairs...
- danieldk 8y agoWhat major laptops actually sell without a headphone jack? Apple, killer of the 3.5mm jack, still ships with a 3.5mm jack on all MacBook models.
- fredley 8y agoI have a current-gen macbook pro and a Google Pixel 1. I feel like I'm living in a great, but precarious period when I can charge my phone and my laptop with the same cable, and plug my headphones into either my laptop or my phone (while charging!). The phone is getting old though, and I'm hoping that when it dies, the replacement will have both USB-C charging and a headphone jack too. Is that too much to ask?
- llampx 8y agoI have a Huawei phone and a ThinkPad, both of which can use USB-C charging. In fact, the Huawei charger does charge the ThinkPad albeit slowly. I love it!
- me551ah 8y agoI own a macbook pro 15 , which is a work laptop and it's horrendous. The keyboard has so less travel that it feels like the keys were pasted on top of the keyboard, the touchbar is annoying when you want to use the function keys while programming, it has 'zero' usb ports so when you need to plug in a HDD you need to hunt for an adapter. Same with you are in a meeting and want to connect hdmi/displayport off you go adapter hunting again.
- Haga 8y agoWhy can't high end luxery items have adapter slots like the think pads of old..
- GordonS 8y agoI've got a 2018 13" Macbook Pro, and I also hate the keyboard and find it horrible to use - I have a $100 Asus netbook that has a better keyboard! It's also the only Macbook I've ever owned, so with people always raving about how great Mackook keyboards are, I'm especially annoyed about it having such a terrible keyboard.
- retSava 8y agoPerhaps not for celebration, but for giving attention so that they are not removed by someone thinking "No-one asks for headphone jacks today". It's easy to come to the conclusion that this is the direction we're moving towards, now that more and more phones come without it.
- intopieces 8y agoPhones and laptops are quite different in terms of form factor, use case case and therefore demand and limitation. I think the headphone jack is safe for now.
- walterbell 8y agoHeadphones have been removed from iPad Pro, even though there is ample room in the case and an entire ecosystem of accessories which rely on the headphone jack.
- superflyguy 8y agoSo you believe that a reviewer or perhaps a random internet commenter making a statement for or against a feature such as a headphone socket "gives attention" which is picked up by a company as it works on the spec for subsequent models? How would that work? How would you know whether the person was going to buy one anyway, or wasn't an idiot - what if you get some people who like it and some who don't? Wouldn't you just stick with the status quo, or talk to people who know what they're talking about?
- p_thrillington 8y agoThere is a person working for the company in a marketing role. I know every stereotypical engineer hates them, but answering these questions is literally their job. There's all kinds of methods to come to the answers.