MacBook Pro disappointment

[Petey.07]

I may be done with Apple. I purchased a $5500 MacBook Pro for me 8 months ago in addition to over $10k of Apple products for my business over recent years.

My wife needed a new laptop so I bought her a 13” M2 MacBook Pro with 32 Gig Ram and 1 Terabyte storage. I waited weeks to give it to her for xmas….18 days later (4 days past return option). When I finally helped her set it up, I saw it had one USB C port only…ONE! No HDMI, not one other single port. I’ve spent hundreds with expansion devices, extensions, Apple keyboard and magic mouse so she could actually use it. But it’s a laptop…so when we travel with it, we have to bring a bag worth of junk to get it to work in the real world…not really portable unless just cruising the web…she’s supposed to be abke to work on it…MS Office, images…

I feel so bad for her that I didn’t stop to think to ask about ports…right? At least 2 with an HDMI? Really Apple, or should I say Microsoft? It’s ridiculous and we’ll have to live with it.

 

[FreakinEurekan]

So it… is exactly as advertised, and that’s what you’re so upset about? Is that right?

 

[chabig]

When I finally helped her set it up, I saw it had one USB C port only…ONE!

It has two.

 

[Pierre535]

Really, Peter.07?

 

[ChrisA]

This is so funny, an entire rant all based on the mistaken idea that there is only one port when in fact there are two.

But I do agree that it needs more ports

 

[usagora]

As others have already pointed out, it has 2 USB ports, not 1, but perhaps you meant that once you use 1 for the power cord there is only 1 free port left? In fact, that must be what you meant, because there's no way you couldn't see 2 adjacent ports. But in any case, I've never understood why people get so up in arms about having to cary around "dongles"/adapters/cables with their laptop. I do it all the time and the bag just fits right in my laptop bag with my MacBook Air and many other items. It's completely portable by any reasonable definition.

 

[FreakinEurekan]

I get the “one port” comment; if you have it plugged into a charger that uses one of the ports. The old 12” MacBook literally has ONE USB-C port - which is normally used for the charger. I have one of them, and the few (less than a handful in 5+ years) times I’ve wanted to connect something like an external display, yeah - it’s a bit of a PITA.

But the point is, I knew that going into it. 99.9% of the time, I get a super-compact, 2 lb easily-transportable machine. And once in a great while, I have to plug in a rat’s nest to it. That trade-off was worth it to me.

All I can say about the OP is… “Caveat Emptor”

 

[maflynn]

o her for xmas….18 days later (4 days past return option). When I finally helped her set it up, I saw it had one USB C port only…ONE! No HDM

That's completely on you. You failed to do any research and bought the wrong product, then on top of that you dilly-dallied and chose not to set it up past the return date.

 

[salamanderjuice]

How did you get a 32GB RAM 13" M2 MBP when the max they can be equipped with is 24GB?

 

[GBstoic]

Why are you blaming Microsoft in the final sentence?
Why did you have to buy her an Apple keyboard?
Why wait until two months after Christmas to post this?
Why didn’t you check the return policy on Christmas presents? In the U.K. most companies, including Apple, accept returns until late January

 

[Sami13496]

You knew what kind of work she does and that she needs ports, right? So why you bought her a laptop without ports then? It says on the box how many ports it has. It’s not a surprise or something you find out after you open the box.

 

[iAFC]

How about checking the machine specs before buying it?

 

[AlixSPQR]

Why does it have a headphone jack? There must be a USB-C dongle for that also.

 

[MazingerZND]

How did you get a 32GB RAM 13" M2 MBP when the max they can be equipped with is 24GB?

This right here.

I don't buy this story at all.

 

[Salty Pirate]

Do your homework?

 

[usagora]

I don't buy this story at all.

Well, if it's made up, they sure missed an opportunity to make the story a lot better, as it's really not all that dramatic 😂

 

[JM]

The 13” clearly had PRO in its name: so it should have a Pro experience with ports to match.

Apple indeed named it incorrectly, and I feel bad for the OP who made the very understandable assumption that the 13”

“PRO”​

would have a similar experience to the 14” and 16” Pro laptops.

Y’all be nice.

 

[MauiPa]

It has two.

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I guess this summarizes the whole post. LOL

 

[MauiPa]

The 13” clearly had PRO in its name: so it should have a Pro experience with ports to match.

Apple indeed named it incorrectly, and I feel bad for the OP who made the very understandable assumption that the 13”

“PRO”​

would have a similar experience to the 14” and 16” Pro laptops.

Y’all be nice.

Last I checked, apple had an excellent product page describing exactly what is on the 13 MBP. People are being nice, it is hard to stop laughing though

 

[GMShadow]

Last I checked, apple had an excellent product page describing exactly what is on the 13 MBP. People are being nice, it is hard to stop laughing though

Especially when the post is so clearly fake and designed to stir anger.

 

[nkgmd]

Reading between the lines a little, there's another life lesson to be learned here...don't buy your spouse a computer with lesser specs than the one you bought for yourself or it will come back to haunt you. Same goes for just about everything else, ie cars, jewelry, watches, phones, airplane seats, dinner entrees, clothes, etc. You have my empathy, but your only rational solution here is to trade laptops with her. And throw in a nice designer bag, LV or the like. And a spa day. Atone...

 

[usagora]

The 13” clearly had PRO in its name: so it should have a Pro experience with ports to match.

Apple indeed named it incorrectly, and I feel bad for the OP who made the very understandable assumption that the 13”

“PRO”​

would have a similar experience to the 14” and 16” Pro laptops.

Y’all be nice.

Not sure if your post is tongue-in-cheek or serious, but in case you're actually serious . . . when you're buying an expensive item like a laptop, it's pretty foolish to assume anything, especially when Apple literally has pictures of the actual laptop on their website along with a full spec sheet. And even if you decide to assume something, it still stands to reason that a smaller laptop might have less ports than a larger one. I agree some comments were "not nice," but I'm not going to err on the other end and say the OP's complaint is reasonable. It's simply not.

 

[jwolf6589]

Why does it have a headphone jack? There must be a USB-C dongle for that also.

Because I want external speakers plugged into my MacBook Pro on my desk.

 

[JM]

Not sure if your post is tongue-in-cheek or serious, but in case you're actually serious . . . when you're buying an expensive item like a laptop, it's pretty foolish to assume anything, especially when Apple literally has pictures of the actual laptop on their website along with a full spec sheet. And even if you decide to assume something, it still stands to reason that a smaller laptop might have less ports than a larger one. I agree some comments were "not nice," but I'm not going to err on the other end and say the OP's complaint is reasonable. It's simply not.

The OP dropped over $15k on Apple gear. You think a big spender like that had time to check spec pages?

Their time alone is probably worth $100 a minute. When you’re as valuable as that, you can’t afford to spend your time on reading details and spec pages.

Have a heart ❤️

 

[StellarVixen]

OP, I do understand your disappointment, having only 2 ports on "Pro" device is indeed lame.

But you should have really researched the product before you bought it, then you would have known its limitations before you decided to pull the trigger on purchase.