Had Apple just switched the Thunderbolt 2 ports on the old MacBook Pro to Thunderbolt 3, and left the legacy connectors in place, we'd be complaining that the new standard was slow to gain traction.Īll the same, Apple could've handled this transition better. This commitment to the USB Type-C connector is exactly what the port needs for peripheral and accessory makers to take the transition seriously: I think we'll see more USB-C devices, at a faster rate, as a result.
Personally, when it comes to adopting Thunderbolt 3 wholeheartedly I suspect Apple would've been damned if they did and damned if they didn't.
Even the previous MacBook Pro with Retina display, which many are looking at with renewed fondness now, demanded I carry a Thunderbolt 2 ethernet adapter just-in-case. Would it be great to be able to plug everything in natively? Sure, though I think I thought something along the same lines back when floppy drives and CD drives and DVD drives rose and fell in popularity. Unplugged, the latter can be used to read USB drives, or connect to scanners or non-wireless printers. Most commonly, that's because I need to import photos and videos from the SD card in my camera I have a small card reader and Apple's USB Type-A to Type-C dongle in my bag. Along the way I've found some of the frustrations I expected to be less significant than I thought they'd be, and vice-versa.Īdapters have become a part of my daily life. I mention that to make it clear that I've been living the USB-C-only lifestyle for some time now, and with just a single port. I'm a 12-inch MacBook user and have been since the first-gen model in early 2015. In a keynote filled with DJs, and family galleries in Photos, and Touch Bar access to emojis, was this new notebook no longer the machine of choice for the work-horse pro? Why not a full touchscreen? Why have you abandoned the legacy ports? Why make it thinner when pro-users care about power? Why aren't the processor and graphics the very fastest, most cutting-edge? Why is memory limited to 16GB at most? Why are you forcing the MacBook's keyboard on us?Īmid it all, a common theme: Apple has forgotten the "Professional" in recreating the MacBook Pro. All the same, even stoic, self-confident Apple was seemingly rocked by the fierce reaction to features like Thunderbolt 3 and the brand new Touch Bar. Beloved workhorse of graphic designers, video editors, coders, and others wedded to the macOS ecosystem, any change to the MacBook Pro was going to be contentious.
Anticipation is a dangerous thing, and expectations around the long-awaited redesign of the Apple MacBook Pro for late 2016 were almost preternaturally high.
0 kommentar(er)
