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Re:MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch by dntrkv on Monday October 18, 2021 @02:41PM (#28909598)
Who was carrying around a bag of dongles? Any sane person would just get a tiny hub that fits in your pocket and has USB-A, HDMI, DP, SD, and whatever else you need.

Which is honestly a much better solution than adding SD and HDMI back to the Macbook. I know it's a controversial opinion around these parts, but I never understood the dongle-gate fiasco. A $30 portable hub will add those parts back to anyone that needs them. I sure as hell don't.

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Re:MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch by asdff on Monday October 18, 2021 @03:56PM (#28910756)
It starts like that, then you have some ports fail on that $30 hub then you are buying more junk you wouldn't have needed in the first place if apple had more sense.
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Re:MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch by Yaina on Monday October 18, 2021 @04:33PM (#28911305)
I don't know. I have my MacBook Pro since 2016 along with it's HDMI/USB-A Dongle and while the macbook screen failed on me (twice!) I still have the same dongle.

But to be honest I don't need it suuuper often. Just for my USB-A microphone and the occasional projector somewhere. I live in the USB-C future Apple is turning away from haha

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