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M1 Max MBP has all these unnecessary ports….WTF?!
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If they are bringing back old ports why not Ethernet and usb a where most people still have usb a cables
Actually, they couldn't. The 16" is already 99.8Wh. The FAA forbids devices with more than 100Wh Li-ion batteries from commercial flights.
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Not everybody drank the Kool-Aid. These new MacBook Pros are going to sell like hotcakes not just because of the performance gains but because Apple finally listened to Pros. I suspect that this change was driven, at least in part, by internal Apple employees complaining about the need for dongles when these two ports are ubiquitous, and will remain so for a VERY long time. If I was in the market, I would have liked to see at least one USB-A in there too.
Agreed, but now the cable is separate from the brick, which was the problem in the first place. And the ability to charge via USB-C remains, so there is really nothing to complain about here.
Sure, it's good. But having only that means custom cables and dongles. Now you can get on site and use what's there (well, you may still need a USB-A to USB-C dongle or cable, but that's it).
There's always some of us that will feel this way. I still wish that Apple merely updated the 17" MBP with current chips and ports instead of soldering RAM and SSDs way back in 2012.
Still, I feel these new MBPs are far and away the best machines Apple's EVER built. Pro machines for Pros. These things are desktop replacements again.
You can always go with the one-port-type, thin, ultrabook, Air line.
I'm glad Apple FINALLY figured out that not all their laptops need to be ultrabooks.
I did that for a short while with my old 27" iMac. It ain't quick, but it worked great as a temporary solution.
I doubt that. But even if true, most *photographers* do use SD.
As for Compact Flash? That's a 26-year old standard that has now been surpassed by SDXC (UHS-II/III), and will be replaced by CFExpress or SDExpress once a dominant format emerges - which is still a couple of years away. High-end Nikon DSLR and mirrorless cameras seem to have settled on CFExpress B (essentially the same as XQD, which it replaces), but the Z-series have second SD slots. Canon seems to like CFExpress B or A, often with a second SD card. Sony has hybrid CFExpress-A / SD slots.
However if you take "professional" as meaning "people who earn money from photography", then I would expect there are millions of event photographers using cameras with SD cards.
There are only about a 20 CFExpress cameras and no SDExpress cameras that I know of. There are thousands of different cameras, drones, set-top boxes, computing devices etc. that use SD cards. The potential user pool of SD-card users must be many, many times the number of professional photographers using other card formats.
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The only thing unnecessary about the ports is that the HDMI is not 2.1.
Agreed. Even the Pros who have CF cameras use SDs anyway for the rest of the equipment.
This philosophical battle has been raging since 2016. The opposing philosophy has won this round. Be happy Apple didn’t totally cave and put useless ass USB-A Ports on the new MacBook Pro. Or Ethernet.
What an utter lack of understanding of, well, everything.
1. HDMI and the SD reader are super useful to a lot of people. Dongles suck, and fortunately a lot fewer people will need to use them now.
2. MagSafe is great, but still optional. You can still charge your laptop via the USB C ports and never once use the MagSafe charger if you wish.
3. If Apple added more battery capacity to the 16”, you wouldn’t be allowed to take it on a plane. If they added more to the 14” people would complain that the 16” had much worse battery life or that the 14” is too heavy for its size.
There are always going to be complaints but in the whole these are far better machines than the ones they replace.
They are exactly what I have been waiting for and one of the reasons i have hung onto my 2015 MBP.
I have used every single port on my MBP already. Wish it had more tbh (2x USB-A would have been nice also)
Another TB port instead of an SD card slot would have been better because the bandwidth on that port is quite underwhelming.
HDMI dongles are notoriously finicky and unreliable. They often don’t connect or don’t support full resolution or flicker. Having a proper HDMI port on this will help a lot of people in heterogenous corporate environment where you may be issued a monitor that only supports HDMI or you may end up in a meeting room and the projector is HDMI. It helps to have a reliable connection in those circumstances.
HDMI port will be good for me. I don't have any monitors or TVs that are 2.1 ready. I don't edit or watch anything in 120fps. And obviously, not going to game on a Mac at 4K 120fps. So I'm not stressed about the HDMI only being 2.0.
And this is the majority of users as well.
I would probably want to replace the SD card slot with a USB-A port. I already have thumb drives that you can stick a SD card slot inside. And plenty of 3.0/3.1 USB-A thumbs drives, external hard drives, and external drive cases. So a USB-A port would have been much more usable for me. I barely use SD cards anymore. Only for my Nintendo Switch and Cannon M50 M2.
MagSafe. I'm neutral on that, it's just another way to charge the battery, LOL. At least it has a much stronger hold than previous versions, cause it used to be annoying.
And this is the majority of users as well.
I would probably want to replace the SD card slot with a USB-A port. I already have thumb drives that you can stick a SD card slot inside. And plenty of 3.0/3.1 USB-A thumbs drives, external hard drives, and external drive cases. So a USB-A port would have been much more usable for me. I barely use SD cards anymore. Only for my Nintendo Switch and Cannon M50 M2.
MagSafe. I'm neutral on that, it's just another way to charge the battery, LOL. At least it has a much stronger hold than previous versions, cause it used to be annoying.
BTW what’s with all these useless GPU cores in these machines? I don’t play video games on a laptop. This doesn’t do anything for me. What was Apple thinking? /s. ?
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My Sony DSLR uses SD - and my Raspberry Pi. So whether I need to mess with a Raspberry's software from my Mac, lime writing a new system to it, or I need to extract footage from my camera, SD is there. Oh not to mention audio recorder and capture card with SD. CFExpress is great, but SD is not at all gone
No new mirrorless or latest model DSLRs use compactflash anymore. It's mostly SD cards with Sony or XQD/CFexpress with Nikon/Canon