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Progression of MacBooks (lemmygrad.ml)
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[–] bruhbeans@lemmy.ml 29 points 4 months ago (1 children)

My work gave me a 2024 MBP which has 2 usb-cs, a headphone jack and the magnetic power doodad on the left, 2 more usb-cs, an HDMI and a fuggin full-size SD card slot on the right. Nature is healing, I guess? I'd rather have a Framework running Linux....

[–] RedClouds@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 4 months ago

Yeah, even Apple had to walk that one back. Although you do have to pay for the more powerful machine to get those ports. It's just an Apple thing to do. Take away a cheap thing for everyone and then make you pay handsomely for what you used to get by default.

[–] pezhore@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 months ago

I honestly don't mind combining the power and USB-c port - all my stuff is usb-c at this point.

But there are just somethings that are usb-a. And I want HDMI for my external monitor.

[–] MatBC@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 4 months ago

I'm impressed with how strongly people feel about this, I see that loosing ports is not nice, but USBC is dope as hell and in my eyes that makes up for a lot of the loss of of I/o, not the headphone Jack though, that one hurts a lot.

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There's no headphone jack? That sounds awful.

[–] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 4 months ago

It's on the other side.

[–] geography082@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago

Higher prices, for less . It’s the classic capitalism win win

[–] driving_crooner 3 points 4 months ago (4 children)

USB-C universal connection or a bunch of proprietary useless shit.

[–] triplenadir@lemmygrad.ml 33 points 4 months ago (1 children)

ah yes the useless proprietary headphone jack (?) microphone jack (??) displayport (???) and ethernet ports (????) ... which you can only replicate with USBC with expensive adapters 🤔

[–] Slavoj_Zuckerberg@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago

You just need Bluetooth everything which costs 3x as much as needs to be charged and dies twice as quickly, and an expensive router for similar Internet speeds, and USB c monitors and a hub, and also plug things in very carefully and never trip over a cable because you have literally no ports to spare and if one breaks you're sol

[–] ture@lemmy.ml 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

While yes you're right about usb-c being universal the question remains why there are just two of them.

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

Two is all you need. Plus a dock or dongle or hub or thunderbolt chain along with converters so things can plug into each other.

[–] Slavoj_Zuckerberg@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

It isn't universal with all the shit I already have, or even most of the shit being made today.

Most of the other things aren't proprietary either.

  • USB-A still very very much in use
  • SD cards still in use
  • Ethernet still in use and very handy at hotels
  • HDMI (other side) very useful at hotels
  • Headphones and microphones still very much in use

Magsafe charger came in the box and is objectively better (and doesn't hog an I/O port which are in short supply)

[–] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago

My Lenovo Thinkpad has everything you listed here plus two usbC ports twisted

No magsafe though dean-frown