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I'm sorry but when you ship a machine with ONE PORT for the purposes of charging and peripherals, this absolutely needs to be in the box. Nickel and $80'ering me on a $1400 computer is ridiculous. I'll stick with my thinkpad.
With Bluetooth, the cloud and AirPlay, who even needs those ports? People are up in arms every time Apple changes/deletes ports and are almost always wrong. Go ahead and stick with your thinkpad.
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Seems like there are some new $79 adapters to split out the USB-C port into power, usb and av[1]/vga[2]. [1] http://store.apple.com/us/product/MJ1K2AM/A/usb-c-digital-av... [2] http://store.apple.com/us/product/MJ1L2AM/A/usb-c-vga-multip...
Think about it. Eighty dollars just to get less than you had before (with the 11-inch Air). And you're already paying the Apple tax, plus that ugly adapter defeats the purpose of the whole making-it-pretty thing. All in the pursuit of a few millimeters.
I'm surprised they introduced colors. Even three SKUs seems excessive for something that doesn't sell as hotly as an iDevice.
I have to believe Dell could at least come close. I have an XPS13 and it just doesn't.
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...that for an additional fee (paid to your carrier), can broadcast a local wifi signal
I'm gonna brag: here in France I pay 10€/months for unlimited calls, unlimited texts, unlimited internet (5Gb of "fair use"). I can do whatever I want with the internet, be it VOIP or hotspot station. And I can cancel my plan whenever I want.
Somebody should make a low profile magsafe charger adapter. That would solve both problems: easy to replace the rare-earth magnet and preserves the utility of magsafe. If you want to charge and use multiple ports, stick the adapter in.
Frankly, I think the one-port decision was wrong, but I doubt Ive and company care.
This seems like an obvious prelude to ARM CPUs in MacBooks.
USB-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…
As a guy with small children, the loss of MagSafe is actually a huge downgrade for me. The number of times MagSafe has saved my laptop and/or power cable from damage after a child blitzed through the living room and tripped over the power cable is not insignificant.
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Presumably accessory manufacturers will create peripherals that allow video out + power at the same time?
That's the stopgap solution, I think. Looking at the larger picture, it's silly that a projector only looks for video-in, instead of video-in/power-out, considering it's already plugged to a wall outlet.