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New MacBook Pro with USB-C dongle hell (or not ?) |
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I also disagree with Apple's "thinner is better" policy - that's why I referred to it as a mantra earlier. I would happily have gone another 2mm thicker to get a decent keyboard and extra battery. So I'm not really disagreeing with you on that one.
However, I do think they are doing the right thing with USB-C. All the same flak was thrown at Apple when they removed the floppy, the DVD drive, introduced USB etc. etc. |
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Of more concern for users of older Macs is that because they won't run the latest versions of iTunes it seems they can't backup or sync devices running iOS 10.
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Its getting there Stiggles, and USB 3 is common and cheap
https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?ie=UTF8&...l_4agd63yrl2_e But Apple...do their thing and sadly the followers just pay up. I was given a mac book pro air laptop by my son (network engineer and the company switched ot MS Pro, sold the Apple's for nowt to the engineers) and I don't much like it. Its well made, runs nice but for me the shortage of software puts me off it so I stick with my W10 PC's and Pro 4. I'm by no means knocking Apple products, they are well made, work well and if you can stand the software limitations then all is good. My Pro Air is in the same drawer as my Hudl2's. You can dual boot using a program called Boot Camp. I run W7 on my MBP 2010 for games and it works like, erm, Windows Probably a bit better though because you don't have all the crapware manufacturers put on it. Gives me the best of both worlds. I get the reliability of OSX and the wide range of software available for Windows all on one computer.
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You could always install Windows on it
You can dual boot using a program called Boot Camp. I run W7 on my MBP 2010 for games and it works like, erm, Windows Probably a bit better though because you don't have all the crapware manufacturers put on it. Gives me the best of both worlds. I get the reliability of OSX and the wide range of software available for Windows all on one computer. |
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Or run a virtual machine for an even better seamless experience.
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Depends what you want to use Windows on a Mac for though. I use it for games so Bootcamp was the only option. For gaming VMs don't work as well as running it natively. However Parallels or VMware Fusion are perfect for people who need Windows on their Macs for work.
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Fair enough, but apart form gaming ... (whatever else did the Romans ever do for us)
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You can dual boot using a program called Boot Camp. I run W7 on my MBP 2010 for games and it works like, erm, Windows
Probably a bit better though because you don't have all the crapware manufacturers put on it. Gives me the best of both worlds. I get the reliability of OSX and the wide range of software available for Windows all on one computer.
