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They're both great machines, and there were controversial things about the 2012-era models at the time (soldered RAM, proprietary PCI connector for the SSD (I don't believe there was a standard for this at the time), no ethernet, the usual chiclet keyboard qualms, etc.) and that Marco doesn't mention those today actually bodes well for the latest design, I think. I love my late 2013 15" (typing on it now), but also use a late 2016. I'd love to just leave that tiny dongle live in the laptop all the time instead of retrieving it (plus usb-c to usb-a adapter) as I'm setting up for the call.
It's really only when I travel or want to use that headset to take a zoom call on my computer from the couch that I find myself missing it. When I'm at my desk, my laptop is docked and the various accessories live in the dock. That's where their UC adapter comes in - it makes voice conferences heavenly sounding.Īnyways, these are small nitpicks.
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However - computer bluetooth leaves something to be desired for VOIP windows and mac). I still prefer the Elecom over the MX Ergo.Īnd the plantronics headset? I've gone through so many bluetooth headsets, and this is really the best one I've ever found that lets me switch between phone and PC. Except my elecom trackball isn't bluetooth, and up until this year's Logitech MX Ergo, bluetooth trackballs just were not an option. In fact, I have almost no need anymore for the unifying receiver. Now you're probably thing "but what about bluetooth"? And I'd agree. These are all USB-A and fit almost flush with the laptop, unless you have to attach a usb-c adapter, in which case you have to stick out 2" with a ridid adapter, or a 6" flexible cable adapter. And that is because of the logitech unifying receiver, the Elecom wireless trackball dongle, or the plantronics voyager uc adapter. I would love to have a single USB-A port. The only port removal issue that I suspect hits a sizable number of users is the iPhone cord still being USB-A. But I can't really tell the difference between him and the people that did not want Apple to remove the ethernet port.
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He runs some complicated portable podcast setup that pretty much requires every port on the old laptop.
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I have never used it once over the last decade I have owned Mac laptops. I really don't see why I want an HDMI port. But I have only wanted to plug something in twice over the last year and the adapter was fine. I think my computer would be worse if it dedicated space to a SD card slot reader. The Touch Bar / touch-id is a (mostly irrelevant) improvement over a row of keys that I never used. It replaced my ~2013-2014 model and I consider it an improvement. If anything seeing the statistics for the successful sales of this model and related essential dongle accessories, despite knee-capping ethernet, and forcing dongle adoption to replace an old, standard, widely reliable and convenient data bus standard, could only have inspired and emboldened choices like the headphone jack debacle and USB-C minimalism which still plague us even today. Eventually snagged some from desktop IT services too, but initially, they were callous and indifferent to my plight.
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This was the first MacBook Pro to exclude an ethernet port, and when Desktop Support at my company handed it to me, I looked at it and asked them what the fuck was I supposed to do about it? They shrugged, threw up their hands and left ( I was the prima donna that asked for the Mac, figure it out asshole), and so I limped along on guest wi-fi for a week, until figuring out that I had to buy a dongle if I wanted to use wired ethernet. This is clear when you compare it to today's offering, where you cannot plug a new iPhone into a new MacBook, out of the box! Incredible.ĭongleGate™ arguably started (and was likely internally fomented) with this edition of the MacBook Pro. But even then, those choices made sense because the rest of the ecosystem was thought about. Yes, they annoyed us in the past with too many FireWire ports, and an overly-futureproofed candy drop iMac (USB). If you want another example, how about DongleGate™? The most recent USB-C trend was not handled the way Apple used to handle standards progressions. Take the touch-bar, for example it was a passable idea, but flawed in execution and production.
The design choices being made at the top of Apple no longer make sense. Perhaps that says something about Marco, but I have the feeling it's almost certainly about how widely-lauded the old rMBP was, and still clearly is.Īpple got so many things right with it, because all the design choices made sense, for exactly the reasons Marco gives. I knew what laptop Marco would be talking about before I clicked on the link.
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