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This is pretty much my angle. My 14inch macbook pro has a power jack(magsafe), three Thunderbolt ports, an SD card slot, HDMI, and a really low-noise, high-pow

This is pretty much my angle. My 14inch macbook pro has a power jack(magsafe), three Thunderbolt ports, an SD card slot, HDMI, and a really low-noise, high-power fantastic 3.5mm. About the only thing I really would ever want is ethernet but even then I probably would rather dock the machine over TB anywhere I would use that. It is just is so much better than plugging in 4 cables. (Side note: It's kinda surprising that mankind has not invented a smaller RJ45)

goosedragons 4y ago
There's loads of laptops with RJ45 jacks that fold up to take up less space when not being used. There were also PCMCIA ethernet cards where the jack pops out and you insert the cable downwards. I don't think Apple cares enough about ethernet on laptops anymore to bother. Personally I find the choice of SD card slot puzzling. USB A or ethernet would have been far more useful IMO. I have exactly one device with full fat SD and it's a 10 year old Wii U.
- agloe_dreams 4y ago
  >There's loads of laptops with RJ45 jacks that fold up to take up less space when not being used. I've had one, thing was pretty flimsy and required finagling to use. Meh. > Personally I find the choice of SD card slot puzzling Something like 90% of the photography market uses a Mac. I heard probably more hoopla about that SD card slot than anything else when it was announced.
- djur 4y ago
  Regular SD cards are still common in professional cameras, and I heard a lot of loud griping from photographers when the built-in card reader was removed.
  - tcmart14 4y ago
    This is a confusing part for me since professional photographers are one of the demographics that Apple tries to target. Seems like they would have never gotten rid of it. Granted, I could also say that it may be ridiculous for cameras to still need SD cards in them. But it is easier for 1 smaller set of devices (Macbooks) to support the other (cameras) than all of the others to support the smaller subset of devices.
    - agloe_dreams 4y ago
      > Seems like they would have never gotten rid of it. Like HDMI, or USB-A, or MagSafe. The 2016 macbooks were...something. FWIIW though...Modern Mirrorless cameras tend to have high-performance USB-C. Some also have internal storage. But the value of swapping media in a camera is critical for organization however. Many Cameras also have dual SD slots for mirroring.
      - tcmart14 4y ago
        No kidding. Especially mag safe. I do have an M1, but it runs Asahi as my daily driver now. And bought it with that intention, was just waiting for when I deemed it good enough to daily drive. Not an apple fan boy, but getting rid of Mag safe was incredibly dumb. If anything, every one should tried doing mag safe. I have a 2012 MBP way back and that was the feature I loved the most.
        rappr 4y ago
        Personally, I was happy to see them ditch a proprietary charging method for something that is an industry standard.
        tcmart14 4y ago
        Usually I would agree except in this case. I am fine with bucking industry standard if it is an actual reasonable improvement. Thunderbolt on iPhone doesn't seem reasonable because the biggest improvement is speed and I don't really hear many people moving many gigabytes of data off their phone via cable. Mag safe though, to me at least, is a reasonable improvement. I'd had a few laptops, or seen a few laptops, with either USB-C charging or the older (man weird to say that), barrel style where after a couple years you can feel the play of the plug in the port and the port becomes damaged and the laptop just doesn't charge anymore, maybe it can be fixed with a careful hand and trying to resolder it?
        agloe_dreams 4y ago
        The hard thing about Type-C is that it, until late 2021, only supported 100w charging..which is woefully lacking. That's actually part of the reason Apple bought Magsafe back, it allowed them to stay within USB spec while pushing more than 100w to the M1 Max. Plus it meant that they could make an out-of-spec charging adapter that only enabled the out-of-spec mode when used with a specific cable while fully supporting all forms of type-c charging. Where we landed really is best of all worlds.

goosedragons 4y ago

There's loads of laptops with RJ45 jacks that fold up to take up less space when not being used. There were also PCMCIA ethernet cards where the jack pops out and you insert the cable downwards. I don't think Apple cares enough about ethernet on laptops anymore to bother. Personally I find the choice of SD card slot puzzling. USB A or ethernet would have been far more useful IMO. I have exactly one device with full fat SD and it's a 10 year old Wii U.

agloe_dreams 4y ago
>There's loads of laptops with RJ45 jacks that fold up to take up less space when not being used. I've had one, thing was pretty flimsy and required finagling to use. Meh. > Personally I find the choice of SD card slot puzzling Something like 90% of the photography market uses a Mac. I heard probably more hoopla about that SD card slot than anything else when it was announced.
djur 4y ago
Regular SD cards are still common in professional cameras, and I heard a lot of loud griping from photographers when the built-in card reader was removed.
- tcmart14 4y ago
  This is a confusing part for me since professional photographers are one of the demographics that Apple tries to target. Seems like they would have never gotten rid of it. Granted, I could also say that it may be ridiculous for cameras to still need SD cards in them. But it is easier for 1 smaller set of devices (Macbooks) to support the other (cameras) than all of the others to support the smaller subset of devices.
  - agloe_dreams 4y ago
    > Seems like they would have never gotten rid of it. Like HDMI, or USB-A, or MagSafe. The 2016 macbooks were...something. FWIIW though...Modern Mirrorless cameras tend to have high-performance USB-C. Some also have internal storage. But the value of swapping media in a camera is critical for organization however. Many Cameras also have dual SD slots for mirroring.
    - tcmart14 4y ago
      No kidding. Especially mag safe. I do have an M1, but it runs Asahi as my daily driver now. And bought it with that intention, was just waiting for when I deemed it good enough to daily drive. Not an apple fan boy, but getting rid of Mag safe was incredibly dumb. If anything, every one should tried doing mag safe. I have a 2012 MBP way back and that was the feature I loved the most.
      - rappr 4y ago
        Personally, I was happy to see them ditch a proprietary charging method for something that is an industry standard.
        tcmart14 4y ago
        Usually I would agree except in this case. I am fine with bucking industry standard if it is an actual reasonable improvement. Thunderbolt on iPhone doesn't seem reasonable because the biggest improvement is speed and I don't really hear many people moving many gigabytes of data off their phone via cable. Mag safe though, to me at least, is a reasonable improvement. I'd had a few laptops, or seen a few laptops, with either USB-C charging or the older (man weird to say that), barrel style where after a couple years you can feel the play of the plug in the port and the port becomes damaged and the laptop just doesn't charge anymore, maybe it can be fixed with a careful hand and trying to resolder it?
        agloe_dreams 4y ago
        The hard thing about Type-C is that it, until late 2021, only supported 100w charging..which is woefully lacking. That's actually part of the reason Apple bought Magsafe back, it allowed them to stay within USB spec while pushing more than 100w to the M1 Max. Plus it meant that they could make an out-of-spec charging adapter that only enabled the out-of-spec mode when used with a specific cable while fully supporting all forms of type-c charging. Where we landed really is best of all worlds.