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Re:Newest MacBook Pro is the first MacBook not recommended b... by S_A_P on Friday December 23, 2016 @10:32AM (#13245171)
I'm pretty disappointed by the new mbp and the state of Mac in general for several reasons. I've made pretty significant investments in the Mac ecosystem. I bought a semi pro sound card(uad Apollo 8) tons of software audio related plugins and logic and I don't have a lot of confidence that when it's time to replace my 2014 mbp that there will be a viable Mac option to replace it with. That immediately makes my sound card useless (thunderbolt connection) and unless there's a Windows version of the plugins (most do have this) then I'm out that money as well. I'm already looking at having a dongle if I want to use the new mbp with a thunderbolt connection which feels like a hack. Maybe this seems like first world problems but I bought into Mac on the promise that they truly supported the "pro" community. It's looking more and more like Tim Cook and company have forgotten that.
Re:Newest MacBook Pro is the first MacBook not recommended b... by spilk on Friday December 23, 2016 @10:34AM (#13245183)
I think you probably mean Thunderbolt, or maybe Firewire, and not Lightning, yes? Lightning is the connector found on iPhones.

I don't remember people complaining this much about adapters when the Firewire 800 port was a different form factor than the Firewire 400 port that came before it - most of the equipment that plugged into it was "pro" level hardware like you mention.

Re:Newest MacBook Pro is the first MacBook not recommended b... by S_A_P on Friday December 23, 2016 @10:36AM (#13245204)
Yes thank you for the correction. I will edit the parent.
Re:Newest MacBook Pro is the first MacBook not recommended b... by koja86 on Friday December 23, 2016 @11:21AM (#13245492)
Sorry to hear that. It's when it hits the fan when abstract words like "closed", "locked" or "proprietary" suddenly get meaning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor_lock-in
Re:Newest MacBook Pro is the first MacBook not recommended b... by illumin8 on Friday December 23, 2016 @01:56PM (#13246521)
Wait, can't you just buy a dongle to convert from USB-c to Thunderbolt 2 and continue to use your nice (I'm jealous, personally) UAD Apollo 8 with a 2016+ MBP?
Re:Newest MacBook Pro is the first MacBook not recommended b... by S_A_P on Friday December 23, 2016 @09:47PM (#13248311)
I totally could and definitely would do so if the port changes stick and I decided to stay Mac. I'm more just irritated that I bought a Mac specific interface and they changed the port less than 1 year later.