Apple Loses Top Laptop Rating

Re:Apple Loses Top Laptop Rating by yellow_viper on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @07:01AM (#14096489)

Depends on your use. The only ports I don't use on my mac are the Mini dvi. I use both USBs daily, HDMI when at friends, and the SD card slot for loading pictures from clients - and don't want to carry adapters around with me. The loss of MagSafe is another big one.

Kinda defeats the purpose having a nice sleek macbook only having to plug something like this into it

http://cdn.bgr.com/2016/12/macbook-pro-2016-hyperdrive-all-i...

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Re:Apple Loses Top Laptop Rating by blktiger on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @10:18AM (#14097909)

Apple has always been early on technology changes like USB-C, in a couple years we'll look back on this like when the iMac dropped the floppy drive. USB-C is obviously better, it's just a matter of time before everything uses it.

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Re:Apple Loses Top Laptop Rating by yellow_viper on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @12:30PM (#14099248)

Doesn't really matter if it's better. TVs still use HDMI and most likely will for another 10+ yr. They're just reducing the functionality of the laptop.

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Re:Apple Loses Top Laptop Rating by subway on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @10:54AM (#14098223)

Apple has been anything but early on USB-C.

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Re:Apple Loses Top Laptop Rating by blktiger on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @11:23AM (#14098546)

How many laptop had only USB-C before the MacBook in early 2015? The spec was only finalized in August 2014.

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Re:Apple Loses Top Laptop Rating by snovv_crash on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @01:08PM (#14099606)

And then they released new laptops in late 2015 with no USB-C ports. And 2 iterations of phones.

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