Posted on 03/13/2015 1:00:55 AM PDT by Swordmaker
New_macbookTech journalists who lined up at Apple's special event to get their hands on Apple Watch walked away stunned by Apple's all-new MacBook. It is widely being hailed – or harped on – as Apple's new one-port wonder. The fact it has only one physical data port is apparently quite jarring to many tech journalists. Those stunned by Apple's move may also drive a Honda Prelude, think sushi is all the rage, and are still trading Pokemon cards. The verdict is in: This is not a computer for those still living in the '90s.
Giving benefit of the doubt, perhaps the media is simply not doing their job. Rather than talk to what one physical port represents; which is that a single USB port is fine for 95% of everyone's workflow, because we live in a wireless world. Instead, they've taken the easy road, simply mirroring thoughts they think the masses might make. It's a safe, lazy position, one that identifies with the reader in stead of talking to the bold realities of where technology is today.
It wasn't until recently that a majority of consumers realized they could actually live, and no longer needed, an optical drive. Consumers are often slow to catch on. But for tech journalists to blast away at the most amazing laptop to hit the market since the original MacBook Air, it was quite revealing. Their one-port worry commentators are showing everyone just how stuck they are in the past. The new MacBook was their wake up call, but apparently many slept right through it.
Ports are no longer physical things, they are mostly wireless technologies. 4G LTE, WiFi, Bluetooth, deploying Airdrop, Handoff, iCloud and Airplay are all ports and types of communications that flow within them. A port and it's data is not about the physical, it's about every type of connection technology available, and Apple's new MacBook comes equipped with state-of-the-art port aplomb.
Evidently journalists, which roughly 95%+ of them use MacBook laptops, still communicate with USB thumb drives, hunt down the nearest Ethernet port, or look to deliver their latest column to their editor via a burned CD. For those still connecting with these methods, this is why Apple still has the legacy 13" MacBook with optical drive in the lineup. For those living in 2015, there is the all-new MacBook. Many of Apple's customers live and work in the now, so why did they leave the legacy MacBook Pro and MacBook Air in the lineup?
Apple CEO Tim Cook is a wicked smart guy. He's not merely a supply chain genius and operational guru, he understands how to maximize sales in a way his predecessor Steve Jobs just wasn't all that interested in. Jobs would have likely killed the MacBook Air, replacing it with only the new MacBook. Consumers would eventually catch onto the port thing and buy it, and most importantly the lineup would have stayed simplified.
Cook is more in touch with that fact that people are slow to catch onto new ideas, and he's left the multi-port MacBook Air's in place, providing a variety of price points and choice. As a result, Apple now plays the consumer bell curve to maximum effect. Early adopters will swarm the new MacBook, taking full advantage of the latest tech. The early majority will start to buy into the new MacBook in a year or so, and the laggards will get onboard this nearly launched MacBook once another all-new leap forward MacBook hits the shelves. Apple has more choices of laptops to choose from than at any point in its history, which will give rival PC makers fits while Apple maximizes MacBook sales.
The new MacBook may have only one physical port, but would it be too much in asking journalists to take the effort in mentioning that 95% (or more) of all our communications, file transfers and entertainment consumption are done via other ports, the wireless type, without need of physical connections? Is that too much to ask or expect? Evidently so. May they continue to enjoy their USB thumb drives and optical ports, because Apple – and more people than they think – are ready to move forward with the new MacBook. After all, it is 2015.
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Drunks in Redneck Bars are some of the finest people on Earth.
Faggots are destroying this country and I would rather not buy anything made by a company run by one.
That's my God given American right.
Faggotry doesn't sell, that's why JC Penney had to fire their CEO.
Tim Cooks faggot ass will be kicked to the curb too as soon as the stock starts sliding.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/j.c.-penneys-fires-ceo-after-plummeting-sales-following-gay-ad-campaign/
Let's not go there...
I don't like or use battery powered mice. Optical or laser USB mouse is what I use
I run sometimes as many as 4 devices off this little laptop. Carried it through airports early on. The hammer-monkeys at TSA could not destroy it. When my big desktop went out, I slid the little 11 inch Air in. All is well. Use iPAD for travel. Love the clarity of the screen on that product!
So how does one load the photos onto the computer from their digital camera? A camera that has NO wifi capability.
Or am I out of luck? can any FReeper answer this for me?
Looks like I may be interested now, just for the ios advantage against malware, viruses, etc.
I also have some concern about data potability making the program and data convesion from WIN to ios. Anyone have horror stories there?
I am obviously not for executing gays, but the faggotization of our country is (IMO) one of the top 10 problems of this country right now.
I also have no problem with them living in peace, but they have now become so militant, that they are forcing their lifestyle on a christian society who does not embrace it.
APPL is two bad products away from a 75% correction. And believe me, at some point it will happen.
Those sure looks like more than one port to me:
What a condescending little twerp this guy is.
Many people have VERY good and VERY valid reasons for not wanting to send every single bit of their data out over the airwaves, and for not wanting to store it in his beloved “cloud”.
Mark Reschke can go F— himself.
Do you mind? We are having a bashfest here.
you don’t. You need to get a real computer to do work with. This one is just a glorified tablet. And interesting toy but pretty useless for anything real.
Unfortunately Apple has always been that way, “Work our way or don’t work at all” And more unfortunately Microsoft has gone down the same ugly road. I guess it’s time to learn Linux and get control of my machines again.
One other thing that these “one port” idiots are missing is that some of us don’t want our business broadcast out for anyone to hijack. (If your data is in the cloud, it’s not your data anymore)
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I wouldn't be surprised if that's buried somewhere deep in the hundreds of pages of new FCC regulations.
Thank you. I’ve never used apple products and this just keeps me with regular laptops.
Bingo. His smug, arrogant “You’ll take it and you’ll like it” immediately turned me off to whatever else he had to say.
I’m using a laptop right now. There are three usb devices plugged into three of the four usb ports.
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