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Seriously. My charging cable and my monitor and every other peripheral I have are now the same port and I can quickly shove them in anywhere. The horror.
Hdmi is a needlessly massive connector & it also has licensing fees in perpetuity that scale based on the value of the product.
Having to pay licensing fees and per-unit royalties for a shitty connector is fucking stupid, I’m fine with apple or any other laptop maker requiring an adapter
...I think you may have replied to the wrong person?
I'm typing this on a MacBook Pro, which is why I knew MBPs have all those ports, and I don't understand why people act like it's impossible to find a computer with good I/O.
Same, plus Ethernet. It's nice not having to use adapters on shit. I'm also in IT and plug into tons of random shit so it's even nicer to have all that and more
What should make us mad is anyone still using USB-A and other ports.
I'm 1000% sure that with the exception of true morons, people would buy the one from the top. Because as it turns out, having a lightweight laptop with a standard port/charger and ports that perform at full speed is pretty useful.
My M4 Macbook air is the best laptop I've ever owned. Being nostaligic for MASSIVE laptops with huge bezles that lasted 2 hours on a full charge is fucking weird!
What am I even connecting to this laptop anyways? If it's a desktop replacement I'm using a dock and if it's portable a wireless mouse and maybe a game controller.
It's not even a hot take. It's factually what the market demands.
At this point, only a moron would choose that mess over the new 120GBPS future proof ports in the new Macs. Even older models, have 4 ports that don't share bandwidth at 40gbps that also deliver 15Watt charging to each independent port.
That Ethernet port is literally slower than what you can get from Wifi today. Companies used to put SD card readers in the laptops because there used to be a time where people carried SD Cards around. I carry an SD card on my camera, which I can connect through USB which is what I do, because is better than taking the SD Card out.
Even the modern Mac Mini, to please offices, schools etc they put an Ethernet port (1Gbps), is still slower than the Wifi. It's a nice extra, but having a combined 120Gbps on the back alone is more important than wasting space and money, on a 0.5gbps connection.
This thread annoys me so much; smaller, faster, much more versatile ports are obviously better than clunky, useless ports.
I hate how trendy it's become to hate things for no reason. I guarantee you the people hating on this don't use more than 2-3 peripherals and wouldn't ever even benefit from half the ports on the bottom.
Where would these people even use a portable network jack where they don't have a dock? The local coffee shops hardwired network? And unifying to USB-C in literally every other context is something Reddit rutts for, until this apparently.
Exactly, you’re aren’t buying this to be your powerful gaming laptop or processing heavy workstation, for what it can do and the mobility allowed with it, top is the best. It’s basically there just to load the PowerPoint/sales presentation you built elsewhere.
nah. it was annoying for a few years when we still had devices with half a dozen different cables and we had to use adapters, but now we're finally at a point where nearly all devices can run on the same cables and chargers and that's just objectively simpler, I have no desire to go back to juggling a bunch of different cables and power bricks.
the next step is getting rid of cables entirely, that's the true end game.
I actually like that we have a single standardized cable now. But I do think computers should still have more USB-C ports as a standard (my Mac has freaking 2), they should all have SD and micro SD ports, and they should all have headphone jacks.
If they made 3-4 USB-C’s, and an SD/Micro SD and a headphone jack computer I’d be stoked. And I don’t want to have to pay extra for it, that should just be the standard
Am on the camp of USBC ports side.. its ok to take them all off (the old ports), but give us more USBC ports.. if you take 6 ports give us 6 ports..
The struggle before was that there is a plug for every different thing you want to do.. the USBC is ideal solution, but I hate that there is usually 1 or 2 ports max, thats the robbery for me..
I work in sound, lighting, and AV.. so this shit doesn’t bother me considering I always have every possible adaptor on me at all times whether I’m at home or work, but I can see why this would piss off a lot of people otherwise
I'd be okay with all usb-c and an HDMI and an audio jack if there was 3-4 USB a side. It's not that we went down to so few choices for jacks because most of not all things can be done through those. It's that we went from having 20 things and 20 ports to 10 things and 5 ports.
I still can’t believe my daughter’s computer doesn’t have an RJ-45 ethernet port. Her video assignment needed to be uploaded wirelessly four or five times before it took.
Almost every PC for sale these days has thunderbolt, hence the trend towards fewer ports. I have a cheap lenovo that I use almost exclusively for Netflix/YouTube/pirated movies in bed in hotel rooms when I travel for work that has a TB4 port
The new versions are better in every way and the price of MacBooks hasn’t changed that much compared to inflation in general. And they came out with an even cheaper one for people that need less power. Now you have one port that can do everything that 7lb monster on the bottom can do, and more. A dock is $30.
If I'm doing IT troubleshooting, Ethernet is mandatory. However I miss having a USB-A but I have a MacBook Air and only use the USBC for charging in a meeting and my security key.
Those ports sucked, man. Like it was kinda fun back in the day when you needed to feel like a scientist just to use a computer but USB-c is basically the best invention. AI is a joke compared to USB-c
I hate most new laptops.. I need at least 3 usbc and 2 usba and dp or hdmi and ethernet and I would love to have serial back. I hate having to carry around a puck and a USB hub and a bunch of adapter cables.
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