Ondrej Holzman In the new 12-inch MacBook with Retina display, practically all ports have become victims of progress. There is only one USB Type-C port left, which is double-sided, but not compatible with current USB accessories. That's why Apple offers an adapter and charges 2 crowns for it.
Without the adapter, it will not be possible to perform multiple actions on the MacBook at the same time, such as connecting a USB device, connecting to a monitor and charging in one. Next to at least 40 thousand for the base model of the new MacBook, you will have to purchase one of the adapters for another two thousand crowns: USB‑C multi-port digital AV, or VGA adapter.
Both adapters will offer HDMI/VGA, USB 3.1 and USB-C. When you plug this adapter into the MacBook, you can charge via USB-C (this cable is included with the MacBook), connect regular USB accessories, and connect it via HDMI/VGA to the monitor (these cables must be purchased separately).
If only a reduction to classic USB is enough for you at one point, you can do with a USB‑C/USB adapter for 579 crowns. But once you connect this adapter, you won't be able to charge the MacBook at the same time.
In the Apple Online Store, we can also find a two-meter USB-C charging cable, and if we wanted to buy a spare for the new MacBook, we can to 899 crowns. Then the power adapter for others 1 crowns. Both the charging cable and the power adapter are, of course, part of the MacBook.
Those prices are from another planet.
On Dealextreme it will be under 5 dollars with postage :D
And you don't have a link?
can't you read or understand the future tense?
what about thunderbolt? Another reduction to a reduction?
That they totally cut off the thunderbold port, so people who have an apple thunderbold display at home are out of luck, I don't understand :(
Manufacturers of adapters have already made enough money from the Thunderbolt port. It was time to come up with something new. I would guess that in two years we will be waiting for "LIghting port 2"
My first reactions regarding the ports on the new, otherwise very interesting, Mac were two: 1. The adapter manufacturers will have their way (and they will) and 2. This will be another adapter that will be easily forgotten at home.
And therefore you will have 2 or 3 (work, home, car) :-)
Do you also have 3 chargers? This laptop, even though I'm not its target, is a real gem. it's a pity that the price is not lower. I don't know if the production of the batteries was expensive. The reduction is cool. If you need to connect cables often, either don't buy this macbook or just leave it connected to the charger.
Yes, when I have my own laptop, I always have 3 adapters so I don't have to carry them around. Actually, 2 would probably be enough for me, the one in the car is just to be sure, if I went to visit a customer unplanned, or didn't sleep at home, but mostly I just drove it and didn't use it. But I don't see the problem so much in the number as in the use. For example, I have been using the Unifying mouse adapter for years (I also have one at home and one at work) and now this would not be possible (not that I would like to buy it, not for the price, but for practicality). At work I always need to charge + external monitor + USB receiver. In addition, sometimes a flash drive, or an external disk, or a card reader, and with this macbook it is currently unsolvable. On the other hand, I would always have the monitor + receiver + adapter connected to the adapter and after coming to work I would connect 1 connector and everything is OK. If I could connect a USB HUB to the USB, that would probably help too, but it will look "awesome" on the desk. But maybe other manufacturers will solve it.
this is exactly the difference between users, I also have 3 chargers, those who use the computer for work as the laptop is designed, they just transfer it, this computer is not for work, it is a new class of mac-face-books
When SJ threw the floppy disk out of the iMac and then the CD out of the iMac, a lot of people screamed too. For those who need ports, there is a MacBook Pro or Air. This is a look into the future.
If I understood it correctly, with the advent of this new Macbook, the Macbook Air ends, and there will be only this one. See keynote transcript - 18:32 No more MacBook Air, just MacBook.
You are wrong.
Well, I had fun. For the new Apple to release some product? :D:D:D however, Jobs is no longer there, but the spider Cock, and is he going to drop something? Well, let's take it in order. After Jobs' death. New iPad Mini, iPhone 5C, iPhone 6+, new Macbook, Apple Watch. Why on earth would they release Air when there are still many people who would rather buy Air than this miracle. The only thing they dropped is the iPod Classic, and that's only because of its expensive production. You probably don't understand the policy of the new Apple, to create new categories of products and extensive product lines and to ROCK and ROCK, I'm sorry to mention the new Apple, but I guess I have Deja Vu, it was already here, but rescue has come, now nothing will help them. However, now I'm not on the verge of bankruptcy like I was then, so they will stay on this wave for a long time, unfortunately. I don't hate it, I have Apple products myself, but since cook has been doing things his way, I don't like some new products at all.
I'm really glad that I threw out the DVD and the floppy disk earlier because they understood that. It doesn't make sense anymore, but that cable is a FAIL like Brno.
Again (as in the case of the iPhone 6) I didn't believe the renders that have been floating around the Internet for some time and again I had… :-( With that port it's a flight of the highest caliber – cut thuderbolt, cut usb, cut magsafe… I think with you can't really compare it with a floppy disk, because now they're not even compatible with themselves anymore. I don't feel that the rest of the product portfolio, or the rest of the world, is ready - you can't even connect a stupid camera there. I've been waiting for this laptop like mercy - completely ideal dimensions, design, other parameters fine (ok, except for the already rather weak 8GB RAM), but not this... I understand it well that for the connection of ethernet and VGA you will need to have a reduction from USB-C to USB+Charging+ on the table VGA, plus a USB hub (I always want a free USB and disconnecting everything because of this is dementia) and a USB-Ethernet reducer in it? And all this in a disgusting white plastic box, when the whole machine pretends to be a design jewel a set made of metal... and to be sure to carry it with you and forget it at the most inopportune moment... hmmm, I feel kind of embarrassed. There was a time when I waited for the keynote and looked forward to every newspaper, for several years now I've been shaking with fear that they wouldn't shrink "it" too much. Otherwise, but it's still probably the best platform (even though Apple has also been doing its bit lately in software destruction).
So for customers like you there is a Pro…. This machine will be for students and undemanding users.☺️
Yes, for students for 40 ticks, and now about Jeníček and Mařenka
A friend who is a student (and doesn't really have rich parents) bought an MBP Retina in the highest configuration on installments.
and as soon as he pays it, the note will not be supported
performance nowhere, the price is astronomical, that's for fesaks, not for students
I have an 08′ MBP and Mr. Handsome is still supported.
But I wonder who it is actually for. An undemanding user or student doesn't need to occasionally copy a file to a flash drive? I may not be on Ethernet all the time, but sometimes I simply need it due to wifi malfunction, so probably a reduction at work and at home on my desk. Sometimes I need to download photos from the camera and wonder, not all cameras these days have airdrop and not everyone takes photos only with an iPhone. Sometimes I want to upload the photos to someone, and classic USB, whether I like it or not, is simply a widespread standard. etc. etc. Basically that possibility (which comes up once in a while) will make one pull a bunch of cables because "what if". Basically, neither for home use nor for work, I can't imagine it very well - it's actually an iPad with a keyboard, so maybe an alternative to that... As I wrote, even worse than the actual brushing of the connectors, I'm annoyed by how Apple itself breaks down the product portfolio - currently 4 different types of chargers - old magsafe, new magsafe, lightning and USB-C (of course there are still a bunch of 30-pin devices floating around, but let's just cut it out - although I have like 4) … it somehow doesn’t know where to go, I don’t see any long-term strategy there… When I went to Apple (and for many years after), the best feature of its products was that they were without compromises – no matter what you wanted, you had the best – now I will choose a thin laptop and I don't connect it anywhere, I choose another one, I have a low resolution to have a graphics card, I have to tow a 15″ sail, I choose a smaller iphone and I have a worse camera, etc. All individual products are fine, I like them, but none of them are "without compromises", none is "the best" - please don't take my word for it, it will probably never be perfect, but Apple has been moving away from the great thing it had for several years now. I'll probably reach for the classic 13MBP again in time, the only pity is that it no longer has dedicated graphics with CUDA support, like my mid 2009 (not because of HPC, but because sometimes you need to debug some code before sending it on).
You don't have to convince me here... I wouldn't want that either, I have an MBP (Late 08) and would only upgrade to the MBP Retina. But I know that 80% of the people around me would not need peripherals.... Not even X cables... They would only need one for classic USB. And people who don't need to connect a TB Cinema display, SLR camera, Ethernet, printer, go pro, X-ray, seismograph, etc. are the vast majority. For example, my girlfriend is excited about it, she doesn't have an iPad, she doesn't want one, and she likes how small and nice it is + Retina. For light photo editing, browsing the Internet and office work + some series, it will satisfy you abundantly.
For students? I need to drag from flash drive to flash drive every 2 days... And as a bonus, the student in the dormitories in Olomouc does not have wifi but only cable internet, so really top mcb for 40 sticks :D so I can get on the train and the stewardess will see that I have it...
Then you are not the target audience like me….
Not only unsightly, but also impractical. They're going to reduce the bezels around the keyboard, but instead I'll have this box next to Mack and it'll be left-handed, or it'll just be hanging off the table, off my knees, in the air. Or I'll put it on an extension cord (when available), but it will be a meter or 2 for a change and I'll have cables like... Hopefully at least someone will think of making the extension cords shorter, with L-shaped connectors.
I feel like it should just be a piece of jewelry for a woman's purse.
The current Macbook Air 11 is great, it's the only computer that really
I use it for some occasional gaming (Mafia 2 on a FullHD monitor
runs decently), so for all web design and programming work. Home
I will connect the monitor, usb hub, speaker jack and Magsafe. Put it together
into one connector would be fine, but don't give them up. Honestly,
I see no reason why it has to be so much thinner, it would be more useful
for example 24 hours operation on battery. I don't see it as a vision to remove the diskette,
dvd drive, sd card or USB a little earlier than the time required and
that's exactly what Apple did, anyone in their right mind will think that soon
so many cables will no longer be needed (mobile phones and printers are connected to the PC via
wifi, then there are technologies like WIDI, airplay etc etc), and just like
with diskettes, and with connectors, it happens that they will be unnecessary and will cease to
machines to give. Apple simply told itself that it would do it sooner in the case of this model.
For people who are already thinking about how it will be with reductions, this one
the machine is obviously not. It is for people who have no idea what a reduction is and that is why it is
it doesn't bother.
Anyone who has tried WIDI knows that it is not much even for office work and games are almost excluded, besides, I am not sure if there is a WIDI card in this NTB - I think not. A cable sweep for about 5 to 10k to connect 2 monitors, LAN, a proper mouse and a charger??? Thanks no! When I saw the innards of the iPad with Intel M CPU and then those "wonderful" batteries like the terrace - last 18 hours, I thought they must have screwed up - even Shiler could see that the silence in the hall was getting on his nerves... This machine is an APPLE Jewishness brought to an end.
I feel sick when I see these Apple cables made in China, just recently I wrote them an email with a photo attachment showing how these cables can fall apart within half a year of purchase. It is perhaps the worst thing that Apple has in production.
Quality products need to be supported, buy original!!!!
So we continue to destroy usability. The “PRO” series has no ethernet… This one has nothing at all. The parts inside are glued or soldered. So even a flashlight after warranty means incredible money, if you don't want to commit peeling adrenaline sports. Nice HW design and top performance are completely degraded by having to use tons of adapters and expensive reducers. The famous convenience of using Apple is irretrievably gone. SW the same. We'll take away some features and call it an upgrade. Whoever has the old real WHY won.
I have, and I jump 5 meters from joy, a 2-terabyte HDD and a 500v ssd, I installed it myself, I started it myself. Today, no one can even imagine it. Ethernet connected daily, I use USB daily, magsafe daily, who knows who works. I can already see how I will put the polished notebook on the table, connect a USB adapter to it, into which I will insert a classic USB, the geek desk will laugh at me. The only thing that can drive me crazy is that Apple doesn't like people like me and doesn't support us anymore. It's better to support paskvil as a super-thin 1,1-inch tablet where you can also watch HD porn. Okay, who remembers the time when apple was primarily a machine for work and not for browsing the web...so in 10 years it won't matter what a person buys, the keyboard will be the same, the trackpad will all be the same. that leaves apple with a cold.
And now how do I connect to my "expensive" external thunderbolt drive? I can see that honoring Apple and going after every piece of crap they come up with with great fanfare is seriously not paying off. I don't even trust them anymore.
is someone forcing you to buy it? :) it's not a laptop for everyone, but for a certain group of users. by the time most people get used to this "type" of notebook, you will already be connecting to that drive via wifi.