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I suspect Apple designers think the RJ45 is an ugly cable that should not sully the minimalism of their smoothed rectangles. Jokes aside, putting the connectio
by BitwiseFool 5y ago
I suspect Apple designers think the RJ45 is an ugly cable that should not sully the minimalism of their smoothed rectangles.
Jokes aside, putting the connection on the power brick actually seems like a really smart idea for cable management under the desk. And, you will have one fewer cable plugging into the back.
- fossuser 5y agoYeah, seems strictly better? It's an aesthetic win since you don't need the cable coming out the back of the machine and it's a pragmatic win since cable management is much easier if it can plug into the power brick that's already on the ground.
- setr 5y agoperhaps weirdly, but it's basically a dock.. you could reasonably hotswap the mac with another one for purposes as yet unknown to me, and be fully setup. It's an almost ridiculously portable stationary device
- benhurmarcel 5y agoIt would be great to include a couple of USB connectors on the power brick too, for cable management.
- fomine3 5y agoI initially thought that RJ54 on brick is weird, but it seems to make sense. Just curious about intermediate wire interface, 1000BASE-T or USB3? I also expect that it's hard to receive 10GbE update.