kmanmx
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Well, one very major one is lack of non C usb ports.
Second, for 99% of what I do, that touch screen bar will do nothing, and may even be a hindrance (booting into Linux, the F keys select tty's)
Gotta buy adapters to charge iPhones and iPads.
Gotta buy adapters to plug an external monitor into it
Gotta buy another cable to charge my phone.
Gotta buy an adapter to plug my camera into it.
Gotta buy adapters to use 99.9% of USB sticks
Gotta buy adapters to plug an SD card into it.
Plus, I actually like the fact that the Surface Book is a souped up convertible. The keyboards what's been stopping me from buying a Surface Pro 4
So... 2014 MacBooK Pro for sale! With 3 year Apple Care warranty!
I am split on the USB thing and people being pissy about it. I mean yes, ofcourse, I can totally see why it's a real PITA needing adapters for everything and that is going to completely write it off for a lot of people. Totally get it. But I can also understand why Apple did it. USB-C is undoubtedly the future, it's just better in every respect. The quickest way to force that change is release hardware with USB-C only. If they included two USB-C and two USB-A, everyone would just continue to use 'A', manufacturers would continue to make USB-A devices, and so on. By forcing USB-C on everyone, it forces people to buy those accessories because they know damn well that adapters are a pain in the *** and no one likes them, and that means manufacturers start releasing swathes of USB-C products to satisfy the millions of people that can now only buy USB-C accessories, and then the whole industry transitions over quicker than it would have and everybody wins.
I mean, imagine if every manufacturer on earth came together and said "We will never have a device leave our factories with a USB port other than type C from January 1st 2017 onwards". You **** over millions of people and force them to buy a loan of new accessories, but we'd have transitioned to a new far superior input in just a few months, and from then on, everyone profits!
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