5 ms·

You can pick up a 2015 MacBook and walk away carrying nothing else, and handle a wide variety of situations that may occur. Three things enable this: long batte

You can pick up a 2015 MacBook and walk away carrying nothing else, and handle a wide variety of situations that may occur. Three things enable this: long battery life (don't need your brick); a touchpad that's not absolute hell to use for more than a minute or two at a time (don't need an external mouse); and port selection. Need something off Bill in marketing's USB stick (it'll be USB-A, almost certainly, even in 2021, let alone 2016)? Need to plug into a TV or projector, or even just a normal monitor that's not super-duper-new? HDMI is far and away your best bet, especially if you're not carrying your own cables. Photographer has some pictures for you that need to go on the web site (or you are the photographer)? SDCard reader, no problem. That ease-of-use—just pick it up and walk away, you don't even need to think about it—is significantly weakened if you need a few special cables and dongles to be similarly-well-prepared.

somewhereoutth 5y ago
Yes. Luckily I fetched up at that place around 2015 - so I was given the best MacBook Pro ever made, and the best iPhone ever made - the 5S. Shame to have to give it all back really. Still baffles me why there was no hash key though.
potta_coffee 5y ago
This is why I never upgraded from my 2015 MBP. I'm still using it everyday, God forbid it breaks. My next laptop will be something else entirely, with Linux on it.
notyourwork 5y ago
I mean let's be honest, how many of us are road warriors that need every single type of connectivity known to exist? Having a single port type on your device simplifies one half of the equation. Your device's ports are a casualty of the lack of standard data port. The HDMI on displays makes you feel like you need an HDMI on your laptop, I disagree if my USB-C port can do that AND a whole bunch of other things.
- masklinn 5y ago
  Despite intensely disliking meetings I regularly get pulled into them, and having to go back to your desk to get an adapter wastes everybody’s time and makes you look like an idiot. It also requires carrying an adapter at all times just in case. > Your device's ports are a casualty of the lack of standard data port To my great dismay HDMI is the standard video port, that’s why it got added back. > The HDMI on displays makes you feel like you need an HDMI on your laptop No, what makes them feel that is that every video input aside from specifically desk-top computer displays is HDMI.
  - notyourwork 5y ago
    We used to have other cable's for video prior. However, today we expect interoperability across so many more devices that saying we need this to be a video cable and this to be an audio cable put us in this position in first place. Over time I imagine we will evolve to a more standard "data transfer" cable that is what USB-C is trying to do. The transition isn't always easy and will introduce friction to various use cases. Remember firewire? Today when I'm mobile I have a bookbag, a laptop and a small accessory bag. The accessory bag has various cables, dongles and adapters to ensure I have plug-ability. Going back to your desk is a work problem, the office should just have those dongles in all the conference rooms and the problem you describe is entirely moot.
    - handrous 5y ago
      > Going back to your desk is a work problem, the office should just have those dongles in all the conference rooms and the problem you describe is entirely moot. You run into this a lot places where only some developers and maybe the artists use MacBooks. Everyone else has fat Windows machines that have every port known to man and don't need dongles. Past the initial (annoying and unnecessary, but oh well) adjustment period, it wasn't that bad for all-Mac shops, but it's a real pain in mixed shops because it's basically just a MacBook problem.
  - spockz 5y ago
    And this is why our meeting rooms have either usb-c called directly for video or an hdmi to usb-c adapter tie wrapped to the hdmi cable.

somewhereoutth 5y ago

Yes. Luckily I fetched up at that place around 2015 - so I was given the best MacBook Pro ever made, and the best iPhone ever made - the 5S. Shame to have to give it all back really. Still baffles me why there was no hash key though.

potta_coffee 5y ago

This is why I never upgraded from my 2015 MBP. I'm still using it everyday, God forbid it breaks. My next laptop will be something else entirely, with Linux on it.

notyourwork 5y ago

I mean let's be honest, how many of us are road warriors that need every single type of connectivity known to exist? Having a single port type on your device simplifies one half of the equation. Your device's ports are a casualty of the lack of standard data port. The HDMI on displays makes you feel like you need an HDMI on your laptop, I disagree if my USB-C port can do that AND a whole bunch of other things.

masklinn 5y ago
Despite intensely disliking meetings I regularly get pulled into them, and having to go back to your desk to get an adapter wastes everybody’s time and makes you look like an idiot. It also requires carrying an adapter at all times just in case. > Your device's ports are a casualty of the lack of standard data port To my great dismay HDMI is the standard video port, that’s why it got added back. > The HDMI on displays makes you feel like you need an HDMI on your laptop No, what makes them feel that is that every video input aside from specifically desk-top computer displays is HDMI.
- notyourwork 5y ago
  We used to have other cable's for video prior. However, today we expect interoperability across so many more devices that saying we need this to be a video cable and this to be an audio cable put us in this position in first place. Over time I imagine we will evolve to a more standard "data transfer" cable that is what USB-C is trying to do. The transition isn't always easy and will introduce friction to various use cases. Remember firewire? Today when I'm mobile I have a bookbag, a laptop and a small accessory bag. The accessory bag has various cables, dongles and adapters to ensure I have plug-ability. Going back to your desk is a work problem, the office should just have those dongles in all the conference rooms and the problem you describe is entirely moot.
  - handrous 5y ago
    > Going back to your desk is a work problem, the office should just have those dongles in all the conference rooms and the problem you describe is entirely moot. You run into this a lot places where only some developers and maybe the artists use MacBooks. Everyone else has fat Windows machines that have every port known to man and don't need dongles. Past the initial (annoying and unnecessary, but oh well) adjustment period, it wasn't that bad for all-Mac shops, but it's a real pain in mixed shops because it's basically just a MacBook problem.
- spockz 5y ago
  And this is why our meeting rooms have either usb-c called directly for video or an hdmi to usb-c adapter tie wrapped to the hdmi cable.