Osborning the Mac, or not

Re:Osborning the Mac, or not by mprev on Monday June 15, 2020 @09:55AM (#23527326)

When it's a laptop, I'm quite the fan of having as much as possible built into the machine as a single unit. That's the point of the form factor, after all.

I think the last thing the MacBooks need are more dongles.

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Re:Osborning the Mac, or not by freehunter on Monday June 15, 2020 @11:36AM (#23528484)

Is that actually the point of the form factor? Seems like laptops (designed to be easily portable) should be as small and portable as possible with optional add-ons for specific use cases. Desktops can have as much as they want because they’re not designed to be moved very often.

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Re:Osborning the Mac, or not by lucideer on Monday June 15, 2020 @10:02AM (#23527390)

Dongles for vital functions every user will have an ongoing need for are a problem.

Dongles for legacy functions in the process of deprecation that some users may not want/need seems sensible.

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Re:Osborning the Mac, or not by mprev on Monday June 15, 2020 @10:31AM (#23527707)

I suppose it depends on how quickly they go from "Apple says this legacy" to actual legacy tech.

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