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Re:Review: Touch Bar MacBook Pros give an expensive glimpse ... by Razengan on Monday November 14, 2016 @03:54PM (#12953256)
It's more baffling when "pros" who claim to have been loyal to Apple for decades but aghast at getting only USB-C, forgetting that Apple have done this before, way back in 1998:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy-free_PC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac#Influence

And again with the removal of the CD drives and Ethernet ports. Does anybody really miss any of those things? I'm sure the loss of RS-232 ports and floppy drives caused some people pain during the transition, but the world moved on and it will move on again.

Re:Review: Touch Bar MacBook Pros give an expensive glimpse ... by khedoros1 on Monday November 14, 2016 @06:38PM (#12954341)
> Does anybody really miss any of those things?

Yes? I take it that you don't? I have a few hundred CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays that I like having access to. Generally, I'll access a floppy once, and just store an image on a USB drive for later use. My building is so jammed with wifi signals that sometimes the best option is to string an ethernet cable across the room, and the access point can't be configured over a wireless interface anyhow. I use serial and parallel connections (DB9 and DB25) to access various little hardware projects and pieces of network hardware I've got around.

I've got USB-based hardware for most of those. For others, I keep around some older computers. It feels "clean" to have a computer with fewer ports, but sometimes I wish I'd chosen a machine with a few more of the connections that my previous machine had.

Re:Review: Touch Bar MacBook Pros give an expensive glimpse ... by merb on Monday November 14, 2016 @04:18PM (#12953458)
I still have a RS-232 to USB cable for MAC which I regulary use with minicom for Cisco/HP network devices.