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....
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.
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.
USB-C universal connection or a bunch of proprietary useless shit.
ah yes the useless proprietary headphone jack (?) microphone jack (??) displayport (???) and ethernet ports (????) ... which you can only replicate with USBC with expensive adapters 🤔
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
While yes you're right about usb-c being universal the question remains why there are just two of them.
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)
My Lenovo Thinkpad has everything you listed here plus two usbC ports
No magsafe though
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.
