All-new iMac features the M1 chip

Re:All-new iMac features the M1 chip by BitwiseFool on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @02:10PM (#26878483)

Jony Ive is no longer working at Apple and he was the God-King of industrial design. I suspect the MagSafe charger disappeared because of his efforts to make USB-C the one cable to rule them all. But after all the trouble with dongles and the butterfly keyboards I suspect more sensible heads have taken over and we can have these nice things again.

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Re:All-new iMac features the M1 chip by jorvi on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @03:31PM (#26880185)

I don't understand why, with Apple's design chops you'd say they would be able to make a USB-C Magsafe hybrid.

Hell, I can fantasize about one right now: make a specialized Apple USB-C charger cable with a plug a teensy bit smaller than standard USB-C, then magnetize the encasing of the plug. In addition, the furthest left and right side USB-C ports on the MacBook should be magnetic where this encasing would touch the port. This would make it so that the plug itself is loose in the socket and is purely held in place by the magnetism.

Of course this means that particular cable is only suitable for use in MacBooks as it would slip out of regular USB-C sockets. It should have a clear Magsafe symbol because of that.

In a further iteration, that kind of magsafe-C port could even be added to iPhones and iPads.

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Re:All-new iMac features the M1 chip by drozycki on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @04:58PM (#26881582)

Something like this?

https://www.amazon.com/Magnetic-Adapter-iSkey-Transfer-Compa...

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Re:All-new iMac features the M1 chip by Andrew_nenakhov on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @05:13PM (#26881781)

there are magsafe Usb-C cables. [1] I owned one similar, worked ok but itself was a bad quality, but I'm pretty sure that good quality cables like this are very possible.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Magnetic-MacBook-Charging-Braided-Dev...

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Re:All-new iMac features the M1 chip by silicon2401 on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @09:00AM (#26889064)

USB-C everything is a great idea, USB-C ports on macbooks wasn't an issue. It's that they were stubborn and kept lightning on the iphone and provided a lightning to usb-a cable, which was ridiculous

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