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After my MacBook Air 11 met an untimely end at the hands of a United flight attendant (they paid for its replacement), I moved up to a had-to-have-it-now 8GB Ma

After my MacBook Air 11 met an untimely end at the hands of a United flight attendant (they paid for its replacement), I moved up to a had-to-have-it-now 8GB MacBook. Even though it's not an Xcode complaint per se, the single USB-C port has been a real sticking point. Took about 3 months and 5 purchases to find an adapter that would let me run dual external displays, keyboard/mouse, •and• charge at the same time. Magsafe 2 had its drawbacks but I really miss it. It's slower than I'd like, so I do my daily driving on a desktop, leaving it for on-the-road sorts of work, which it's capable of doing, though the screen makes dragging from storyboard to code a challenge on occasion.

alexforster 8y ago
Care to share that adapter model?
- mchannon 8y ago
  Yes! The IOGear GUD3C03. Not thrilled about its shape (too box-shaped to put under the MacBook, but too large to put it anywhere else, and the fixed USBC cable on it is both too long and too short to comfortably connect it).
companyhen 8y ago
What happened with the flight attendant? I'm flying United soon first time, kind of nervous lol (won't be using my laptop on the plane but will be in my bag)
- mchannon 8y ago
  It was on a 3-hour "United Express" flight and about 20 minutes in, she poured an entire cup of water on the open laptop. It wasn't bumpy, and she was very apologetic, but I needed that laptop working to make a deadline, and instead spent the next 3 hours with a wet lap (the one lav was very popular) and nothing to do but stare forward once my phone died. Luckily I located the original purchase receipt for the MBA11 (they required that) and it wasn't as bad a process to get made whole as I thought. It was a $1279 laptop (8GB option) and I'd definitely gotten my money's worth. It was, era-adjusted, one of the best products Apple has ever made, in a sea of lemons. Anytime the FA comes through with the drinks, I put away the laptop as a matter of habit. Just isn't worth the risk.

alexforster 8y ago

Care to share that adapter model?

mchannon 8y ago
Yes! The IOGear GUD3C03. Not thrilled about its shape (too box-shaped to put under the MacBook, but too large to put it anywhere else, and the fixed USBC cable on it is both too long and too short to comfortably connect it).

companyhen 8y ago

What happened with the flight attendant? I'm flying United soon first time, kind of nervous lol (won't be using my laptop on the plane but will be in my bag)

mchannon 8y ago
It was on a 3-hour "United Express" flight and about 20 minutes in, she poured an entire cup of water on the open laptop. It wasn't bumpy, and she was very apologetic, but I needed that laptop working to make a deadline, and instead spent the next 3 hours with a wet lap (the one lav was very popular) and nothing to do but stare forward once my phone died. Luckily I located the original purchase receipt for the MBA11 (they required that) and it wasn't as bad a process to get made whole as I thought. It was a $1279 laptop (8GB option) and I'd definitely gotten my money's worth. It was, era-adjusted, one of the best products Apple has ever made, in a sea of lemons. Anytime the FA comes through with the drinks, I put away the laptop as a matter of habit. Just isn't worth the risk.