My work gave me a 2024 MBP which has 2 usb-cs, a headphone jack and the magnetic power doodad on the left, 2 more usb-cs, an HDMI and a fuggin full-size SD card slot on the right. Nature is healing, I guess? I’d rather have a Framework running Linux…
I honestly don’t mind combining the power and USB-c port - all my stuff is usb-c at this point.
But there are just somethings that are usb-a. And I want HDMI for my external monitor.
I’m impressed with how strongly people feel about this, I see that loosing ports is not nice, but USBC is dope as hell and in my eyes that makes up for a lot of the loss of of I/o, not the headphone Jack though, that one hurts a lot.
There’s no headphone jack? That sounds awful.
USB-C universal connection or a bunch of proprietary useless shit.
ah yes the useless proprietary headphone jack (?) microphone jack (??) displayport (???) and ethernet ports (???) … which you can only replicate with USBC with expensive adapters 🤔
You just need Bluetooth everything which costs 3x as much as needs to be charged and dies twice as quickly, and an expensive router for similar Internet speeds, and USB c monitors and a hub, and also plug things in very carefully and never trip over a cable because you have literally no ports to spare and if one breaks you’re sol
While yes you’re right about usb-c being universal the question remains why there are just two of them.
It isn’t universal with all the shit I already have, or even most of the shit being made today.
Most of the other things aren’t proprietary either.
- USB-A still very very much in use
- SD cards still in use
- Ethernet still in use and very handy at hotels
- HDMI (other side) very useful at hotels
- Headphones and microphones still very much in use
Magsafe charger came in the box and is objectively better (and doesn’t hog an I/O port which are in short supply)
