The new Mac Pro: The audacity to say “Yes” in a design culture of “No”

Re:The new Mac Pro: The audacity to say “Yes” in a design cu... by kylec on Saturday April 15, 2017 @11:36PM (#14124200)

What sort of scenarios require 3 or more USB ports simultaneously on the go? I can understand at a desk, but I'm having a hard time imagining a non-contrived scenario where you would need them regularly on the go.

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Re:The new Mac Pro: The audacity to say “Yes” in a design cu... by Espressosaurus on Sunday April 16, 2017 @12:41AM (#14124360)

Mouse, JTAG, serial connection to device under test, phone. Sometimes add a USB drive when taking measurements using test equipment.

Useful either in the lab, or at a customer's site. Which is why I only own Apple products for play.

For my personal usage: mouse, USB drive, phone.

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Re:The new Mac Pro: The audacity to say “Yes” in a design cu... by Daishiman on Sunday April 16, 2017 @03:16AM (#14124778)

Two external drives + phone + external sound card. Mouse + charging phone + charging external battery pack Mouse + keyboard + digital camera to download pics Two external sound cards + anything else

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Re:The new Mac Pro: The audacity to say “Yes” in a design cu... by zepolen on Saturday April 15, 2017 @11:48PM (#14124220)

My use case:

1. Logitech mouse dongle

2. Disk/Stick

3. Phone

I ended up buying a Bluetooth Logitech MX Master instead, best mouse ever.

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Re:The new Mac Pro: The audacity to say “Yes” in a design cu... by devonkim on Saturday April 15, 2017 @11:59PM (#14124247)

I'm more upset that the two ports aren't on the same side of the laptop. This precludes use of portable hard drives that use two USB connections.

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Re:The new Mac Pro: The audacity to say “Yes” in a design cu... by saagarjha on Sunday April 16, 2017 @12:06AM (#14124263)

I'm actually happy that Apple moved the USB ports away from each other. I used to have a non-Retina MacBook Pro and it was a royal pain to get two "large" USBs to fit at the same time.

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Re:The new Mac Pro: The audacity to say “Yes” in a design cu... by Dylan16807 on Sunday April 16, 2017 @12:26AM (#14124319)

I'd say the way to support those is having nice beefy power supplies for the ports, not having more of them.

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