Apple Surveying MacBook Pro Users About Headphone Jack and Other Ports

Re:Apple Surveying MacBook Pro Users About Headphone Jack an... by efraim on Thursday September 15, 2016 @10:35AM (#12506475)

USB seems a bit overkill but since it's already there isn't it more overkill to add a dedicated optical port for digital audio?

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Re:Apple Surveying MacBook Pro Users About Headphone Jack an... by tylerjd on Thursday September 15, 2016 @10:41AM (#12506520)

The digital optical port is baked into the 3.5mm jack on most upper-end laptops and Macs. Though sadly my MacBook Air does not have one.

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Re:Apple Surveying MacBook Pro Users About Headphone Jack an... by mbell on Thursday September 15, 2016 @12:52PM (#12507715)

The port isn't the important bit that is added, it's the supporting circuitry and photo diode to drive it that adds complexity to the design.

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Re:Apple Surveying MacBook Pro Users About Headphone Jack an... by DigitalJack on Thursday September 15, 2016 @01:52PM (#12508251)

And the little physical switch in the port that broke on my last MBP. My port got stuck in optical mode.

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Re:Apple Surveying MacBook Pro Users About Headphone Jack an... by kennell on Thursday September 15, 2016 @06:59PM (#12510571)

Mine got stuck serveral times too. Was alway able to fix it with a toothpick.

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