I was in Costco last week. Cruised by the computer display.
There , was a shiny new 13” laptop, a Dell IIRC, $1300. Wow, for that I could buy a nice MacBook!
Love my 2012 MacBook Pro I bought used in order to get high end machine that has it all.
Hate to thought of going back to a PC, but.
OTOH I’m really pi$$ed at Apple. Why?
They took a wonderful machine, the MacBook , and stripped it of its usefulness. All in the name of esthetics.
Want to run a DVD? gotta buy a separate optical drive and lug it around.
Want to check your camera SD card? More peripheral hardware.
Want to plug in a USB device? Thumb drive? Again, more stuff.
Trip over the power cord? Oops ! What happened to Magsafe?
So you end up with a skinny, pretty portable machine and a backpack full of adapters and drives.
Guess they expect you to put your life in ‘The Cloud’ and download as needed.
Not me.
Do you know you can still buy a MacBook Pro 15-inch from Apple that still has most of those features, except an internal DVD drive? Two USB 3 ports, SDXC port as well as the newer stuff. But I hear you. Over a year ago I bought my wife a newer MacBook to replace her 2006 model. She likes the peripherals so I bought her a MacBook from Apple that had the extras, including internal DVD. But after that they dropped the model offering the DVD internally. Me, I rarely use a DVD anymore and am content using an external drive attached to my desktop (I share the drive to my laptop over the LAN). Plus I still have the older laptops, for instance viewing carpentry DVD tutorials out in my workshop in the back yard.