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Re:The new MacBook by cjensen on Monday March 09, 2015 @02:54PM (#9173028)
I expect the charger will be a USB hub.
Re:The new MacBook by madeofpalk on Monday March 09, 2015 @03:09PM (#9173168)
It's not.

If you need expansibility and are running a large external monitor, that sounds pretty 'professional' to me.

Re:The new MacBook by biafra on Monday March 09, 2015 @03:20PM (#9173248)
Currently Apple offers these two:

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MJ1K2AM/A/usb-c-digital-av...

and

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MJ1L2AM/A/usb-c-vga-multip...

Unfortunately both only have 1080p HD. Let's hope there will be a (mini-)DVI version with a higher resolution soon.

Re:The new MacBook by zaroth on Monday March 09, 2015 @04:53PM (#9173983)
Thanks for the links! Both of those are quite 'ewww' of course.

So we have the "USB-C Charge Cable" $29 (http://store.apple.com/us/product/MJWT2AM/A/usb-c-charge-cab...) -- I wonder if that is proprietary or if any cable would work. Then there's the "USB-C Power Adapter" $49 (http://store.apple.com/us/product/MJ262LL/A/apple-29w-usb-c-...).

Too bad they can't fit 29W into the smaller cube form factor which charges my phone. That would be incredible powering a laptop off of that.

Someone needs to create a much sleeker implementaion of a in-line 1-port hub. So basically something that looks like USB-C on both ends, but 4" from one side of the cable there's a quarter-sized circle of hard plastic that has the USB-C cable going through it, with another USB-C port available on the side.

I hope we will see USB-C to HDMI and USB-C to DisplayPort "cables" which are not big fat massive dongles but really function more like just a cable.

Re:The new MacBook by thrownaway2424 on Monday March 09, 2015 @04:45PM (#9173930)
Re:The new MacBook by madeofpalk on Monday March 09, 2015 @03:09PM (#9173158)
It's not.
Re:The new MacBook by ghostly_s on Monday March 09, 2015 @03:04PM (#9173121)
surprised this wasn't addressed in the keynote. I can see a lot of clever Apple-y solutions to this problem.
Re:The new MacBook by moe on Monday March 09, 2015 @07:00PM (#9174674)
surprised this wasn't addressed in the keynote. I can see a lot of clever Apple-y solutions to this problem.

It wasn't addressed because Apple offers no solution (yet?).