Problem: This is what happens when you pick Apple.
this post was submitted on 24 Nov 2024
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They remove the extra ports because they take up space in the board.
That aside if you’re buying Mac you took it from yourself. No one made you buy it.
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This pic leaves out the latest generation of MacBook that brings back some of those ports.
I guess OP would rather generate outrage upvotes, rather than spread the truth.
Yup, and it's glorious. My coworkers have the newer MBPs, and it's really nice having HDMI. They mostly still use USB-C, but they each use HDMI at least once/week (older TVs w/o airplay, for example). I'm upgrading soon, and I'm excited.
Excuse my smugness, but being excited for your premium laptop maker to bring back a feature that is standard basically everywhere (all of my four laptops have HDMI, and out of those, my two non-work ones also come with DisplayPort) is such an Apple thing
It's like these people claiming that you need that connectivity for a lot of work were right.
Yup, and that's why i don't buy Apple products for personal use. This is provided by work, and mostly because we don't want to deal with the stupid corporate image (we've essentially convinced them we "need" macOS for whatever reason).
If I had my choice, I'd request either a Framework or Thinkpad laptop, Framework because I can keep swap out the ports as needed, and Thinkpad because they come with enough ports, I love the Trackpoint, and the top mousepad buttons rock. But no, I have to deal with Apple's POS hardware, so forgive me if I take joy in the little things in life, like getting an HDMI port.
Ah, okay. I do have thinkpads for work, same at my previous employer, I'd say they're pretty forgettable, not sure I'd buy Lenovo for anything that needs to be particularly secure, just read the English wiki entry for Lenovo about security incidents, but I'd be more careful when procuring for work, especially in certain fields.
just read the English wiki entry for Lenovo about security incidents
I use Linux exclusively with full disk encryption (and usually swap the NIC), so I'm not particularly worried about whatever nonsense Lenovo does with their bloatware. That doesn't cover everything and it's a big part of why I'm looking for alternatives since Lenovo is owned by a Chinese company, but it's good enough, and I honestly prefer the ergonomics over anything else.
For work, we use Docker for everything, so there's nothing actually tying us to macOS. But everyone else on the team uses macOS, so if I pushed for me to use Linux, it would be an uphill battle every time something went wrong for me, or if I make a change that doesn't work for the rest of the team. So I just use macOS, but bring as many of my Linux tools along with me as I can. I still hate macOS, but at least w/ my Linux tools, I don't have to interact with it all that much.
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