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Re:The new MacBook by zanny on Monday March 09, 2015 @04:36PM (#9173850)
I easily expect monitors to start supporting Type C input, where they feed the host machine power and do USB passthrough to a classic USB interface hub with maybe a daisychained type C port on there as well.

Its temporary. In five years everything will have these ports and adapters will not be necessary. In the same way today you can get a DP to VGA adapter instead of having a bulky analog video output, even if it costs $15.

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Re:The new MacBook by igrekel on Monday March 09, 2015 @05:44PM (#9174365)
Yes and yet I am still lugging adaptors - DP to VGA - DP to HDMI - DP to DVI Because I never know what I'll have when I present and you know what, I nearly always have to revert back to VGA, its not like HDMI is new !

I have a nice integrated laptop but I have all these parts around in my bag that I sometimes lose or forget connected to a projector somewhere. What may have seem like a simpler solution really wasn't in the end.

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Re:The new MacBook by JBiserkov on Monday March 09, 2015 @07:00PM (#9174673)
The one video adapter to rule them all http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NXDD5HQ/

Otherwise, completely agree - the current situation is messed up. Yet I'm glad Apple is leading the way, just like with SSDs.

Full disclosure: I don't own any Apple products or stock.

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Re:The new MacBook by zanny on Monday March 09, 2015 @06:48PM (#9174608)
It isn't meant to be a simpler solution, but staying on analog video was never an answer. The only reason VGA projectors are still in use because they still work because we have all these passthrough options. Without them businesses would have replaced them as soon as VGA was going out of style, aka, 2002.
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Re:The new MacBook by makomk on Monday March 09, 2015 @07:09PM (#9174733)
Replaced them with what? HDMI, which needs an adapter and can't be fed from VGA sources? DP/MiniDP, which again needs an adapter and can't be fed from VGA or HDMI sources? Maybe USB-C, which doesn't need an adapter if you bought an Apple laptop within the last few hours and don't need to put it on charge? (Otherwise it requires an adapter in order to interface with DisplayPort - but hey, at least it has that backwards compatibility!)

VGA's popular because it's the only option that actually works for everyone, and it's not for a lack of newer alternatives - in fact, the plethora of newer alternatives is the problem here.

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Re:The new MacBook by veidr on Monday March 09, 2015 @08:19PM (#9175063)
I feel your pain because I also have to make presentations—and thus carry display adapters in my bag.

But the vast majority of people never have to make presentations or hook up to legacy projectors and monitors. So bulking up the machine itself to accommodate that does not really make sense.

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Re:The new MacBook by wmoxam on Monday March 09, 2015 @07:21PM (#9174801)
Most people aren't travelling around presenting everywhere.

Having a ton of adapters seems to be required for that niche

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Re:The new MacBook by gcr on Monday March 09, 2015 @09:06PM (#9175304)
That's what Apple said would happen for Thunderbolt.

I don't want to shell out another $900 monitor to replace my existing $900 monitor that adds no new features on top of what I had previously.

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