The obvious end game for USB 3.1 type C is replacing your laptop with a phone. USB 3.1 type C is the "universal docking station", providing power, data & display over a single cable. Obviously useful for a laptop, but even more useful to a phone. Apple obviously could merge OSX & iOS into a single OS, but I have real difficulty seeing them doing that. (It also seems unlikely that they'll replace Lightning with USB 3.1 type C). It seems much more likely that Ubuntu, Microsoft and possibly Google are going to go there first. By pushing USB 3.1 type C, Apple really seems to be opening doors for their competitors...
The new MacBook
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#62What'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.
right - if the charging brick has a conventional USB port and a displayport out on it, a lot of people's concerns go away.
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#63This is actually called simply MacBook (no Air). The Air remains a lower cost alternative.
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
In the old days, HP had a high standard of quality. More recently, almost coinciding with the introduction of inkjet printers, HP quality standards have slipped to a new dismal low. I'm not surprised to hear of fires.
USB connector was not simply designed for 10 amps or how much they push through it.
USB-C has a new connector and specifies voltages up to 20V, which will cut the amperage vs. old 5V USB chargers by a factor of four.
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#65I am bit disappointed. Dell has similar sized laptop, with bigger display, smaller bezel and higher resolution. http://www.dell.com/us/p/xps-13-9343-laptop/pd
Also made out of plastic, and just as expensive with less SSD storage.
Aluminum is not best material either, it bends too easily.
EDIT: aluminium bends too easily compared to other material. It does not have best structural integrity for its weight. Magnesium alloy, carbon fiber reinforced plastic or titanium composite usually has better parameters for weight.
But I am not saying that polished aluminium is bad or looks bad.
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#66They actually introduced a new line of laptops called the MacBook (so the title is technically incorrect). The existing MacBook Airs and 13" MacBook Pro got minor refreshes. Interestingly no refreshes on the 15" Pros.
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#67I think the single port is a deal breaker for me-I really like the 12 inch form factor (finally!) but this is too. But at least it starts out with 8GB of RAM-I wouldn't have put it past Apple to put only 4 in the base model.
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is this the end of Thunderbolt as well?
Thunderbolt runs over USB-C, as well as DisplayPort. USB 3.1 features re-configurable lines that can negotiate almost any protocol. [1] [2] [1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/8558/displayport-alternate-mod... [2] http://www.anandtech.com/show/8539/usb-power-delivery-v20-an...
Displayport != Thunderbolt.
Displayport is a protocol that can run over a thunderbolt port, but the thunderbolt spec includes much more than that.
I don' believe we'll be seeing the 40Gbps PCI extension that is today's thunderbolt over USB 3.1.
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#691.2Ghz processor seems like a dealbreaker for professional applications (Coding, Video editing) but for applications the Air was used before it actually seems okay.
This is the new laptop for the casual user who's browsing Facebook, maybe typing something up in Word/Pages, and listening to iTunes. I was pretty interested until I saw that it's a Core M, and won't replace my I7 anytime soon for web development with multiple virtualmachines and light video editing.
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#70The obvious end game for USB 3.1 type C is replacing your laptop with a phone. USB 3.1 type C is the "universal docking station", providing power, data & display over a single cable. Obviously useful for a laptop, but even more useful to a phone. Apple obviously could merge OSX & iOS into a single OS, but I have real difficulty seeing them doing that. (It also seems unlikely that they'll replace Lightning with USB 3.…
Exactly. And modular smartphones as well (see this submission) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9172605