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Apple’s expected Mac event on October 27 is official

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Re: Apple’s expected Mac event on October 27 is official

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leesalminen wrote: post #13
chris_7 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Taking away MagSafe will be very unfortunate. MagSafe is one of the best things about Macs.

If this turns out to be true, I will not purchase Apple laptops for myself again and I will seriously investigate switching our whole company.

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Re: Apple’s expected Mac event on October 27 is official

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Post by valm- »

duck wrote: post #19
chris_7 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Taking away MagSafe will be very unfortunate. MagSafe is one of the best things about Macs.

I won't argue that it might be the best thing about a Mac, but at the same time it isn't a great feature. They get dirty way too often and will lose contact, the size difference between old and new always bites me (my wife has the older size), and I've never seen a time where it saved my laptop (and I have four crazy kids running around and work remotely some).

It doesn't apply to a lot of people, but I have a mobility disability that makes plugging into ports difficult or impossible without getting someone to help. With MagSafe I really appreciate just lining up the cable imprecisely and letting magnetism do the rest.

Re: Apple’s expected Mac event on October 27 is official

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Post by mitchty »

skrause wrote: post #29
chris_7 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Taking away MagSafe will be very unfortunate. MagSafe is one of the best things about Macs.

Personally I'm glad to see MagSafe go away if that means I can use charging ports on either sides of the laptop. Sitting on the right side of the bed with the charger connected is a huge hassle when you only have a charging port on the left side. The cables of Apple's MagSafe charger are also quite crappy, they tend to fray after 2-3 years of use. I hope that gets better with USB-C and if not at least you'll have bet…

While I don't disagree with the annoyance as to laying things on the left side, magsafe is more nice in that if you hit the cable or accidentally have torque on the charging cable it just disconnects, not causes a ton of pcb or connector damage.

Re: Apple’s expected Mac event on October 27 is official

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Post by jshevek »

skrause wrote: post #29
chris_7 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Taking away MagSafe will be very unfortunate. MagSafe is one of the best things about Macs.

Personally I'm glad to see MagSafe go away if that means I can use charging ports on either sides of the laptop. Sitting on the right side of the bed with the charger connected is a huge hassle when you only have a charging port on the left side. The cables of Apple's MagSafe charger are also quite crappy, they tend to fray after 2-3 years of use. I hope that gets better with USB-C and if not at least you'll have bet…

Yes, this is something that I absolutely love about the Chromebook Pixel. Having two fully functional type c ports on both the left and right side of the laptop offers an unexpectedly amazing degree of convenience. The ability to daisy-chain several devices for charging is pretty cool as well. I'm never going back to a laptop that doesn't offer charging ports on both sides of the computer.

Re: Apple’s expected Mac event on October 27 is official

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Post by [deleted] »

skrause wrote: post #29
chris_7 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Taking away MagSafe will be very unfortunate. MagSafe is one of the best things about Macs.

Personally I'm glad to see MagSafe go away if that means I can use charging ports on either sides of the laptop. Sitting on the right side of the bed with the charger connected is a huge hassle when you only have a charging port on the left side. The cables of Apple's MagSafe charger are also quite crappy, they tend to fray after 2-3 years of use. I hope that gets better with USB-C and if not at least you'll have bet…

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Re: Apple’s expected Mac event on October 27 is official

#38

Post by izacus »

sigh Apple, can we have at least one USB-A port left on the Pro machines? Please? So we can plug in bunch of useful devices and TheyJustWork(tm)? It's sad enough that quarter of talks I visit start with "Does anyone have their Mac video dongle with them? Anyone? ... " shtick.

Re: Apple’s expected Mac event on October 27 is official

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Post by ddorian43 »

izacus wrote: post #38

sigh Apple, can we have at least one USB-A port left on the Pro machines? Please? So we can plug in bunch of useful devices and TheyJustWork(tm)? It's sad enough that quarter of talks I visit start with "Does anyone have their Mac video dongle with them? Anyone? ... " shtick.

Vote with your $. According to $, they're doing pretty great.

Re: Apple’s expected Mac event on October 27 is official

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Post by Rotten194 »

valm- wrote: post #33
duck wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I won't argue that it might be the best thing about a Mac, but at the same time it isn't a great feature. They get dirty way too often and will lose contact, the size difference between old and new always bites me (my wife has the older size), and I've never seen a time where it saved my laptop (and I have four crazy kids running around and work remotely some).

It doesn't apply to a lot of people, but I have a mobility disability that makes plugging into ports difficult or impossible without getting someone to help. With MagSafe I really appreciate just lining up the cable imprecisely and letting magnetism do the rest.

There was a Kickstarter a while back for a Magsafe-like solution for USB-C. You might want to check it out if you haven't seen it already. Wish I remembered the name...
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