I don't think the M1 Pro can push a 4th TB4 port anyway. Only the M1 Max chip has the guts to push 4 TB4 ports... making different chassis for different CPUs (Pro vs Max vs 14" vs 16") would be expensive.
HDMI is the new VGA. We just finally got everyone to update their conference rooms and projectors to use "any" HDMI connectors. If you're traveling and presenting, chances are you'll need an HDMI on a regular basis.
See the Apple Accessories page. This time the MagSafe is just a cable! It's not hard wired to the brick. It's also a braided cable so it should hold up better.
Mac have never had a parallel port. Some of us old, old-timers might mistaken a parallel port for the old SCSI port. Dagnabbit, my 100MB SCSI harddrive can't connect to the new MBP even though it's got a DB25 port...grrr.🤣
2.0 suits me fine; only need HDMI to connect to projectors, and 2.1 is overkill there.
People buying these machines aren't planning to own them for only 1 year. You don't have to have a lot of imagination to see that 8K will become more and more common. Plenty of places that you go to plug in for a presentation will have 8K screens for that purpose. And it will remain super common for TVs to simply have HDMI 2.1 and no Thunderbolt. Thus the head shaking. And keep in mind, this is a company that fed us the line of "the jack is old tech", so we expect the latest freaking ports my friend. These machines are for Pros, not amateurs. They are the Pro-est laptop that Apple makes, so give us the freaking Pro port, so that we can do our jobs without falling flat on our faces in embarrassment because we can't connect to the screen for the presentation. The entire reason Apple even brought back HDMI was because the Pros who use them are sick of the mess of having to carry around a zillion dongles to allow for every common issue. This is a half-backed solution, almost as if some spoilt brat was deliberately gimping it out of spite.
USB-A would not be a step back when it is such a commonly used connector still, and will remain so, because it is super cheap to implement, and is fast enough, and provides enough power, for many many simple applications that will continue to be used for years to come. Ditching the floppy, and the CD, actually made sense, because they were becoming superseded. USB-A is NOT becoming superseded, simply because USB-C is more complex and expensive to implement because of the so many options and variable it provides for. The one-port-to-rule-them-all is actually it's achilles heel.
It also omits 8K screens, which are becoming more and more common. And it will remain common that screens have HDMI but not Thunderbolt. Thus rendering this port almost obsolete on arrival. So much Pro.
What's funny is that old SCSI port (called 25-pin SCSI) wasn't even a standard connector. It combined a bunch of the ground lines and wasn't as electrically clean as standard SCSI connectors were.
This pro argument is so incredibly annoying. There are many kinds of professionals who have many different needs. If there’s a specific feature that would make your personal applications for the computer better that does not make it inherently more or less “pro” and does not make it less suited for other professionals.
Hey here’s a super compatible port that can drive 4K video and is used pretty much everywhere. When you are at home or your office with an ultra high resolution display and you don’t have to worry about carrying another cable We still have 3 super high throughput ports that can drive the latest basically anything there is!
Wouldn’t that be Jony Ives obsession. I, and yes this is pure speculation on my part, think Mr. Cook finally had to reign in and then came the departure.
The Pro argument is annoying to you because you know it is 100% correct.
It’s not because there’s not one single profession that the computer has to cater too and what’s great for a photographer may not be great for a coder mah not be great for Video editor etc etc etc.
