New 13-inch MacBook Pro

Re:New 13-inch MacBook Pro by ashtonkem on Monday May 04, 2020 @10:29AM (#23068472)

They’re not done migrating to USB-C, that’s why. Every single year non-mac laptops slowly get thinner and trade another USB-A port for USB-C. The fact that all my work colleagues were issued a USB-C dock is going to accelerate this trend.

I can’t tell you the last time I saw a coworker directly use anything other than the USB-C port on their laptops, even on Lenovos with other ports. It’s only a matter of time.

Honestly, the “$50 USB-C dongle” has been great. I plug in a single cord and it provides two displays, power, USB, and Ethernet. This is everything that work laptop docks promised decades ago, except it’s an open standard! If I were to switch from a Mac to a Dell or a Lenovo, I wouldn’t need to change a thing about my current setup. Heck, I don’t even use an Apple power charger when traveling anymore, since my Anker is smaller and can barely keep my MBP topped off.

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Re:New 13-inch MacBook Pro by scarface74 on Monday May 04, 2020 @02:10PM (#23071323)

And the HN crowd should be applauding the move to USB-C it’s an industry standard and the hardware works across platforms.

If anything they should be complaining about the continued use of the lightning adapter on iOS devices.

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Re:New 13-inch MacBook Pro by ashtonkem on Monday May 04, 2020 @03:42PM (#23072425)

I think the iPhone switchover to USB-C is inevitable.

Well, that or Qi. I don’t plug my phone in often anymore.

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