Apple released their new line of MacBooks, that is using apple’s newest innovation. Using an aluminium “unibody” design. Which involves carving the computers out of aluminium bricks, witch makes them prettier than ever before. However, even roses has thorns, and here is some of them:
2 USB ports. Having just 2 USB port is a major issue. All the accessories you need is going to be plugged in through a USB port. If you plug in your iPhone to charge it, and an external mouse are you out of USB ports.
No memory card reader. I know this is not a regular feature on Mac’s, but it adds to the accessories bag.
No monitor ports, only the craptastic display port, witch also adds to the accessories bag. In expense of lightening the wallet.
Max 4 gb ram. This is maybe not an issue at the moment, but in close future will the memory requirements get higher, and hopefully this will be something that will be upgraded in the next MacBook revision.
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Well none of these issues are new, 2 USB ports, no memory card reader and the funky mac only solutions for external screens are exactly the same on the old macbooks, and the old ibooks. The 4gb ram is quite strange as their desktops support alot more. As a revision this is a minor one, sure the new large touchpad without a button and the multigestures is nice, but it is mostly design. If you want to use it as a main computer maybe the 24 inch screen thingy with more usb ports can be a good choice?
The previus 17″ Macbook Pro used to have 3 usb ports.
It had an built-in dvi port, and a dvi to vga adapter was included.
Well i agree.
But the displayport is the coming-gen output. VGA is 200 years old, DVI is too bulky, and HDMI is a Home Theather cable not belonging to to the PC world.
According to HP at a seminar, you can dongle several screens with displayport through 1 output on the PC, thus not needing several graphiccards/outputs for multiscreen setups.
But Im never going to get an Appleish computah!
Cheers
Super Basso of Doom
I agree, but why not use hdmi?
It has been adapted by many pc laptop makers, and it is available on most screens, projectors and tvs (remember that hdmi and dvi is the same signal, just with and without sound). The use of another mini dvi port does only mean more adapters. In the end making dvi the new S-video with hundreds of different pin configurations
Well HDMI = Home theater, nothing else.
And does not have enough bandwith to dongle more screens through 1 cable.
DVI: Devil Video Interport!
There is no difference in those ports except the design.
Display port is a small DVI port (the same signals).
HDMI is the same signals as DVI + sound.
So why have 2 mini ports for the same signal?