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.
More ports, better display then the Mac.
Dell
http://www.dell.com/us/dfh/p/studio-xps-laptops
Lenovo Yoga - touchscreen
http://www.engadget.com/products/lenovo/yoga/2-pro/
Kind of amusing that Apple was the first with USB ports and now they are eliminating them. A USB mouse makes using laptops lots easier. So if I buy one of these clown items I will need a USB spiltter
The Apple cult is an S&M cult with Yonny Ives the sadist they all obey.
The OCDness off all this is cool!!
I love it!
Rock on Apple FanBois! You are simply the best! May Yonny and Timmy and the Cupertino gangstas continue to pick your pockets
Screw Apple and its homosexual CEO Tim Cook
The macbook is a stupid product and is going to bomb.
Apple CEO Tim Cook: ‘I’m proud to be gay’
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/10/30/tim-cook-comes-out/18165361/
I’m not buying anything made by FAGGOTS and no other conservative should either.
There is such a thing as killing a motherboard by charging "stuff" via the USB. Better hasten to your local alleged Genius store, go ask the clones there about it.
Yonny-Timmy are not morons so that one USB port is prolly heavy duty and can handle even two devices charging.....
Just buy a high quality-heavy duty>>>> USB splitter/multi port/what have you
I have never bought an Apple anything. Never will. The only way I might cave and buy some Apple item is due to Apple encryption
The best thing physically about Macbooks over any PC laptop was the magnetic charging cable. You move your laptop the wrong way and the cord just popped off. With Dells, Compaqs, and all other devices, you move the laptop the wrong way and you’ve killed the charging port.
I had always assumed that nobody else did the magnetically attached induction loop cable is because of patents. Now Apple is taking a step backwards by using a micro USB charging port?
Apple is going to fall hard, this is the beginning of the end for them.
The gibsmedats can’t afford I Phones, it’s conservatives that buy this faggots products.
Once more REAL AMERICANS find out about Mr. “Proud to be Gay” Tim Cook, all bets are off.
Short the stock now, it’ll be down 40% within a year.
Shut your stupid yap, fool.
It has a USB port - USB 3.
Actually kind of intriguing. At work my docking station runs on USB. Plug everything into this tower, USB to the computer.
The way Apple presents itself disgusts me but they are only the worst example of projecting corporate gayness. Many other US corporations do the same but on a lower level. If they had the juice they would be as in your face as Apple.... Its a sign of the times and a bad one.
You will use a Bluetooth mouse.
Surface has that cable.
When will the Obama-CRATS mandate that all po' peeples can get free Federale Obama/Iphones. Because 4g access is a human right!!
You’re the fool.
I wont support a company run by a homosexual progressive socialist democrat climate change liar.
Why would you?
“Apple CEO to Global Warming Deniers: We Don’t Want Your Money
At the Shareholders meeting, NCPPR [National Center for Public Policy Research] asked Apple to pledge that Apple would not pursue environmental initiatives unless they helped increase profit. Cook did not hesitate. Even though some environmental policies can be good for the bottom line, “we do a lot of things for reasons besides profit motive,” Cook said. “We want to leave the world better than we found it.” And anyone who objects? “Get out of the stock.”
http://www.onecitizenspeaking.com/2014/03/who-the-hell-does-apples-ceo-tim-cook-work-for.html
“Apple CEO Tim Cook is a wicked smart guy”
Well, when “Thimmy” stated homos like himself are God’s special people, he showed the world he is indeed wickedly evil and a follower of satan.
I’m sorry, but this article says to me “You only need what we give you - not what you actually use”. This represents what Apple (and other manufacturers) WANT the public to think - not what the public actually DOES or SHOULD think.
Unfortunately, Apple’s not the only one.
I just went to pick out a new laptop. Had a heckuva time finding one with an onboard Ethernet port and an onboard serial port. And forget having a built-in DVD drive anymore.
Docking stations have been replaced by “hubs” that don’t charge the machine. Real useful.
On the bright side, in return for giving up all the things I needed, I can get Windows 8 and a touchscreen.
woopee.
The trend seems to be to make laptops operate more like tablets. That’s great if your intention is to fondle it for entertainment purposes. But if you want to actually get some work done on the machine, it’s getting harder and harder to find one that is built for that.
You’re a fool because you talk like a drunk in a redneck bar and dismiss excellent work by thousands of people who are no different from those working for any other computer company - all to indulge in your hate fetish against gays. All you accomplish by that is making a caricature of conservatism, which just so happens to be based on the Constitution, the free market, and privacy - not your bellowing bigotry.
If you’re not going to find the courage to admit that you want to execute gays for being gay, then shut the hell up and allow them to live in peace. Their existence is not the problem, their use as a front by socialism is the problem, and that’s true of every type of liberal.
Also, you find a computer made by a clean company, let me know. In the mean time, you just keep typing away on the net while using a computer assembled by Chinese communist slave labor, like they ALL are.
Sorry that life isn’t conveniently painted in blocks for you, but it’s NOT.
+1
So go buy a Windows PC and enjoy knowing that you are contributing to the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation....
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