Noticed the changed the headline?
The Air still exists and is NOT replaced by this. I believe it's staying because it's non-retina, but I may be wrong.
Either way, they seem to have made a call a bit too early when posting this.
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#22What's interesting to me as well is that they don't seem to have announced any sort of dock or usb hub or even really mentioned what the charging brick looks like right? That seems like a really important thing to cover when announcing you have 1 port for all peripherals now.
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#23Seriously? Couldn't they have put _two_ ports in it so you can plug something in while it's being charged without lugging around a usb hub?
I believe (someone correct me if this is wrong?) that you can in principle daisy chain a USB-C connector for both data and power?
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#24USB-C as the "one connector to rule them all" is the big news. That's the end of MagSafe and the exploding era of USB-C docking stations that work for multiple devices. I think we'll start to see an era of expandable computing coming up soon: USB-C is a perfect connector to push your data and state into a larger desktop experience. Why not carry around your laptop in tablet form when you are mobile? [1] [1] https://g…
I'm glad apple picked this up after so many others pushed it forward :) But 1 port is sad, because now you have to choose between a lot of things (charging, using hdmi, whatever)
It just means we're going to stay stuck in dongle hell.
When I'm on the road the minimalism of a Mac is nice, but at my desk, hooked up to everything I really need for heavy work, my desktop is a cluster-f of cables and adapters and wires.
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#25Say what you will about the logic behind a single port for everything (as far as I know this is the first computer to do this so there's nothing to compare it to), this Air is a pretty drastic change from what we're all used to when it comes to laptops. We're basically hitting the limits of thinness at this point right?
> We're basically hitting the limits of thinness at this point right?
And for what? A razor thin laptop with just one port seems to be really pushing towards one extreme side of the function/form continuum. I thought giving up ethernet was bad enough with the Retina Macbooks.
It's very pretty, but it seems more like a toy than a serious computer. Maybe that's what Apple wants, but that's never something I would have said about the last few years of Macbook Airs.
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#26Seriously? Couldn't they have put _two_ ports in it so you can plug something in while it's being charged without lugging around a usb hub?
This won't work well when using an air to do presentations and you can't switch between a monitor and power....
The slightly cynical me tends to think the thunderbolt port was great and on every mac. now new adapters...
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#27Say what you will about the logic behind a single port for everything (as far as I know this is the first computer to do this so there's nothing to compare it to), this Air is a pretty drastic change from what we're all used to when it comes to laptops. We're basically hitting the limits of thinness at this point right?
You could compare it to an iPad, which has only a single lightning port.
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#281.2Ghz processor seems like a dealbreaker for professional applications (Coding, Video editing) but for applications the Air was used before it actually seems okay.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm glad apple picked this up after so many others pushed it forward :) But 1 port is sad, because now you have to choose between a lot of things (charging, using hdmi, whatever)
I will guarantee you that their charger will have a port on it to pass through. Still awkward, but I can't imagine that they'd force users to choose between data and power on that one port.
I just hope the passthrough is up near the part that plugs into the laptop, or it's going to be awfully inconvenient for a lot of different kinds of peripherals.
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#30I am bit disappointed. Dell has similar sized laptop, with bigger display, smaller bezel and higher resolution.