Sadly Apple is losing me.
My 2007 macbook started to lose its display. After a drawn out on again off again problem I decided to replace it.
New macbook, no optical drive. So what you say?
No way to burn a dvd w/ pics or anything else. Buy a drive?
OK. Now you have portable computer and have to carry another piece to use much of what you have stored or want to store.
It’ll be a cold day you know where when I use ‘the cloud’ for storage or info.
My cameras come w/ software cd not an invitation to ‘the cloud’.
My solution was to buy a used macbook, a 2012 that still had an optical drive.
Now Apple has dumped the ability to connect .
Not me. Never.
An article on a new product that tells me next to nothing about the product but just attacks and ridicules those who dare critize some of its features (or lack thereof) - rather pointless, really.
Nice jab at Thinkpads, but some designs are timeless. Does one expect a Porsche to traditionally have cupholders?
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.
In the metered data world, physical ports still are ports. Having unmetered data means you have a legacy plan or very deep pockets, both of which are the exception. That, and the data goes somewhere with physical network ports - where maintenance of said gear requires more than one port to be used at once.
If Apple were to pair up flat-rate wireless(read: 4G/LTE) data for their devices, that might make it a more plausible choice.
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.
None of which are meaningfully different from each other.
I don't think Lenovo's shaking in their boots. Even a second-tier manufacturer like Asus isn't afraid to compete by offering a similarly constructed machine - with physical ports.
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
Citation from a source that Apple didn't commission? No offense, but that seems to be a number pulled out of thin air.
To preempt the usual "not target market" argument, mind that Apple's maintenance hostile design features have made it to other manufacturers.
As for myself, I'm typing this on a 7-port Thinkpad X220 Tablet. Nearby is an equally un-Apple-like monstrosity in the form of a Thinkpad W520 portable workstation. While not technically 2015, they and their port-laden successors are definitely not 1990's machines. That, and they're quite easily maintainable with a conventional screw set, publicly available maintenance documents, and widely-available parts (even from Lenovo themselves).
Addition by subtraction.
I couldn’t resist.
wireless ports are needed for industrial and government snooping...