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A laptop without a SD card slot? Is this real?? What the hell... Who supports this?
You mean the Air?
The what?
A laptop without a SD card slot? Is this real?? What the hell... Who supports this?
It really does! And I've never used it, d'oh!I guess I won't miss it.
I just want it to be able to properly drive a 4k external display at 60hz, and to have a much brighter display than the 2012 model.
He probably needed it so he didn't have to do either of those things.What do you even need the slot for? Use a card reader or use the camera via USB cable.
No HDMI or SD? 4 useless USB-C instead? Touch bar no one asked for? No touch screen?
Yeah. Apple waited too long and is now trying to future proof to a future no one wants. This thing is DoA. Mac sales will continue their freefall.
This exchange was just sad.
Anyway, just use USB-C to drive the external display via display port.
He probably needed it so he didn't have to do either of those things.
User have always been inconvenienced by the removal of legacy ports. It was painful to lose PS/2, and serial, and ADB, and FW400, et al.
What if people don't want to buy 4 dongles for something as simple as charging their phone and using an external monitor? There is no reason for the removal of these ports other than pure greed. This isn't anywhere near the same thing as the AUX cable fiasco. They must be getting a kickback from the USB-C creators.You can argue against something like the removal of the headphone jack because you're losing a physical port and its replacement is Bluetooth, which has some disadvantages... but migrating from USB-A and Thunderbolt and HDMI ports to a single port that can do what all those ports do seems like a pretty clear advantage
Correction, you need to literally carry a bag of dongles everywhere you go. Which sounds like an incredibly huge pain in the ass when 100% of other laptops don't have the same problem.USB-C carries USB 3.1, Thunderbolt 3, HDMI, and DisplayPort all in one port.
You just need a new cable.
On each side of the keyboard.Wait.... Where's the speakers at??
USB-A and HDMI aren't legacy ports. AUX is over 100 years old. AUX is legacy.
What if people don't want to buy 4 dongles for something as simple as charging their phone and using an external monitor? There is no reason for the removal of these ports other than pure greed. This isn't anywhere near the same thing as the AUX cable fiasco.
Correction, you need to literally carry a bag of dongles everywhere you go. Which sounds like an incredibly huge pain in the ass when 100% of other laptops don't have the same problem.
Only the real Apple shills will pick up this "Upgrade"
reminder that this is the poster who thinks apple's best business strategy would be bringing back the ipod so you can dual-wield pokemon go with your phone
So no magsafe? Ugh...
Are there reports of no discrete GPU too? Or is that just posters making stuff up? No GPU, no buy.
But you have to physically take the card out of the camera, is it really less convenient plugging a cable in?
To be honest I'm surprised the SD card slot has lasted as long as it did.
But you have to physically take the card out of the camera, is it really less convenient plugging a cable in?
To be honest I'm surprised the SD card slot has lasted as long as it did.
Correction, you need to literally carry a bag of dongles everywhere you go. Which sounds like an incredibly huge pain in the ass when 100% of other laptops don't have the same problem..
So no magsafe? Ugh...
Are there reports of no discrete GPU too? Or is that just posters making stuff up? No GPU, no buy.
What? I use the SD-slot all the time. I freelance as a videographer and photographer, and both my camera and my audio recorder use SD-Cards. Transferring from the camera with a cable is slower and it also means I can't use the camera to film/take pictures with another SD-card while it's transferring. Card reader would be the only option, but it's annoying to have even more things to bring with me.
What? I use the SD-slot all the time. I freelance as a videographer and photographer, and both my camera and my audio recorder use SD-Cards. Transferring from the camera with a cable is slower and it also means I can't use the camera to film/take pictures with another SD-card while it's transferring. Card reader would be the only option, but it's annoying to have even more things to bring with me.
Then you just need one adapter that has multiple uses.
I just bought a USB-C adapter for my WINDOWS PC that has 4 ports in a palm sized block.
1. USB A 3.0
2. Gigabit Ethernet
3. VGA
4. HDMI
I'm one of those suckers who got the "Macbook" with one USB-C slot for both charging, and anything else. Let me tell you it is actually fucking awesome. Yes, I have a dongle for everything from HDMI to USB to SD card slot. But guess what? I maybe bust that thing out once every 2 weeks. 99% of the time I'm just so glad that it's thin and light has a beautiful retina screen.
Portability and lightness is fucking important when it comes to laptops. Unlike phones, we're talking on the order of entire lbs being shaved off the weight of these devices through miniaturization and convergence. My Macbook is 2 pounds in weight, it's actually lighter than my iPad 3 and about half as heavy as my Dell laptop with an NVidia GPU and 17" screen. I carry this tiny thing in my bag to and from work every day and I barely feel it.
Plus, docking the Macbook is a one-connection deal. One connection to a dongle and I'm using an HDMI monitor, ethernet cable, and charging.
There's so much progress to be made in laptop miniaturization that I can't believe people are whining about ports going away, honestly, and I'm someone who railed on (and will continue to rail on) Apple for taking the headphone port out of the iPhone. There are shaving a fraction of a millimeter of length kind of improvements, and there are shaving 2 pounds of weight kind of improvements.
I'm one of those suckers who got the "Macbook" with one USB-C slot for both charging, and anything else. Let me tell you it is actually fucking awesome. Yes, I have a dongle for everything from HDMI to USB to SD card slot. But guess what? I maybe bust that thing out once every 2 weeks. 99% of the time I'm just so glad that it's thin and light has a beautiful retina screen.
Portability and lightness is fucking important when it comes to laptops. Unlike phones, we're talking on the order of entire lbs being shaved off the weight of these devices through miniaturization and convergence. My Macbook is 2 pounds in weight, it's actually lighter than my iPad 3 and about half as heavy as my Dell laptop with an NVidia GPU and 17" screen. I carry this tiny thing in my bag to and from work every day and I barely feel it.
Plus, docking the Macbook is a one-connection deal. One connection to a dongle and I'm using an HDMI monitor, ethernet cable, and charging.
There's so much progress to be made in laptop miniaturization that I can't believe people are whining about ports going away, honestly, and I'm someone who railed on (and will continue to rail on) Apple for taking the headphone port out of the iPhone. There are shaving a fraction of a millimeter of length kind of improvements, and there are shaving 2 pounds of weight kind of improvements.
You realize you're arguing that carrying a random USB cable around in your pocket is easier than carrying nothing, right?But you have to physically take the card out of the camera, is it really less convenient plugging a cable in?
To be honest I'm surprised the SD card slot has lasted as long as it did.
No HDMI or SD? 4 useless USB-C instead? Touch bar no one asked for? No touch screen?
Yeah. Apple waited too long and is now trying to future proof to a future no one wants. This thing is DoA. Mac sales will continue their freefall. How disappointing that Apple is just a phone company now.
I miss Jobs![]()
The people complaining about lack of SD slot baffle me. Yes, it sucks losing a port but if you're on an actual professional shoot (Whether you're a DIT or whatever) a dongle is going to be least of your worries.
What actual professional camera shoots on an SD card?
Cameras like the AMIRA use CFast cards
Blackmagic uses SSD
I mean I guess the C100 uses SDXC cards but if you're not shooting on a Ninja Blade (which uses SSD) then it's basically moot.
I'm weirdly ok with having USB-C. Hopefully it's less finicky than the Thunderbolt ports
Wait.... Where's the speakers at??
Also, again, Apple taking USB-C on everything but the iPad and iPhone...This is such trash. What's the point of the uniformity if you are just going to dismiss it on the major consumer devices... Ugh.. I'm keeping my 2015 MBP
Agreed but I haven't given up yet. I still prefer macOS a good bit compared to Windows. My 2013 MBP is still holding pretty well though so I'll see how things play out over the next two years. I could see myself going Surface Book 3 (or so). Surface Book is just so much more interesting as a modern day computer.
The people complaining about lack of SD slot baffle me. Yes, it sucks losing a port but if you're on an actual professional shoot (Whether you're a DIT or whatever) a dongle is going to be least of your worries.
What actual professional camera shoots on an SD card?
Cameras like the AMIRA use CFast cards
Blackmagic uses SSD
I mean I guess the C100 uses SDXC cards but if you're not shooting on a Ninja Blade (which uses SSD) then it's basically moot.
I'm weirdly ok with having USB-C. Hopefully it's less finicky than the Thunderbolt ports
The people complaining about lack of SD slot baffle me. Yes, it sucks losing a port but if you're on an actual professional shoot (Whether you're a DIT or whatever) a dongle is going to be least of your worries.
What actual professional camera shoots on an SD card?
Cameras like the AMIRA use CFast cards
Blackmagic uses SSD
I mean I guess the C100 uses SDXC cards but if you're not shooting on a Ninja Blade (which uses SSD) then it's basically moot.
I'm weirdly ok with having USB-C. Hopefully it's less finicky than the Thunderbolt ports
You realize you're arguing that carrying a random USB cable around in your pocket is easier than carrying nothing, right?
Seriously though half measures are the worst. Either kill the port or don't. It just seems lazy to keep it at this point.
I have a 5D IV, shoot professionally and only use CF. Part of that though is just using cameras for years that only supported CF.
I'd be all over that camera if the 4k didn't take so much god damn storage.
Yea if I was more into video I probably would have bought something else. The codec Canon uses is pretty disappointing.
No HDMI or SD? 4 useless USB-C instead? Touch bar no one asked for? No touch screen?
Yeah. Apple waited too long and is now trying to future proof to a future no one wants. This thing is DoA. Mac sales will continue their freefall. How disappointing that Apple is just a phone company now.
I miss Jobs![]()
I believe if Jobs used modern devices like the Surface Book he would have changed his tune about touchscreen laptops. Just like he was wrong about styluses and 3.5 inch screens. The market changes very frequently, Jobs had a keen eye for the future. I'm sure he would have noticed how other laptops have surpassed the MacBook in the last few years and wanted to compete. Especially with the tanking iPad and Mac sales. I believe he would have combined iOS and OS X by now.Jobs would never ever had made the MacBook Pro screen a touchscreen, and totally would have been all about the touch bar. He also probably would have pushed for USB-C to become the new standard, and he hated "non essential" ports (which HDMI and SD Card fall into).
Are you forgetting who Steve Jobs actually was? This laptop 100% could have come from him.
Jobs would never ever had made the MacBook Pro screen a touchscreen, and totally would have been all about the touch bar. He also probably would have pushed for USB-C to become the new standard, and he hated "non essential" ports (which HDMI and SD Card fall into).
Are you forgetting who Steve Jobs actually was? This laptop 100% could have come from him.