The ultimate MacBook Pro dongle

Why can't they just include the ports in the design? Look at the Thinkpad X1 Carbon for example...
 
ponder said:
Why can't they just include the ports in the design? Look at the Thinkpad X1 Carbon for example...
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Same reaso the headphone jack disappeared on the iPhone.

Money
 
Ideally MBP should not have sound chip either. Ultimate USB Type C will do it, so there is no reason to obscure design anymore. They are going to correct it in the refresh release, I think.
 
I recently deferred an upgrade to my 2015 mbp because I don’t want to have to deal with more dongles.
 
The hub – the HyperDrive USB-C Hub + 7.5W Qi Wireless Charger iPhone Stand – is aimed at MacBook Pro users, and easily reached its $100,000 funding target shortly after listing.

At the time of writing, the campaign had earned $395,000 with 29 days to go on Kickstarter.
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The HyperDrive USB-C Hub is available to back from $109 and is set to launch in May 2018.
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If the Macbook Pro is such a perfect computer with absolutely no faults, then why is this hub so popular? This is all the evidence a rational person needs to see that people who buy Apple products buy them because of the marketing w@nk, and not because of the supposed technical superiority.
 
There is an upside to this. It is amusing to watch someone taking their new MBP out of their bag at a meeting, including the tangle of things needed to actually make it work.
 
garyc said:
There is an upside to this. It is amusing to watch someone taking their new MBP out of their bag at a meeting, including the tangle of things needed to actually make it work.
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My mbp has 2x thunderbolt 1x hdmi and 2x usb. Yeah the usb ports are lacking IMO but i struggle to see what you're on about.

What i can guess is that you saw a dude maybe doing a presentation and your old as shyte projector is VGA.
 
Moosedrool said:
My mbp has 2x thunderbolt 1x hdmi and 2x usb. Yeah the usb ports are lacking IMO but i struggle to see what you're on about.

What i can guess is that you saw a dude maybe doing a presentation and your old as shyte projector is VGA.
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In my post I explicitly referred to the new MBP, which is very different to the third generation one that you have.
 
just make a screen and keyboard(most amazing apple innovation since forever) then add dongles, why f around.
 
With my next screen purchase, I'm thinking of getting something that has USB-C and allows for charging an attached notebook. Then it should have a USB hub on board, maybe 3.5mm audio out, and perhaps a second USB-C port for attaching some storage or daisy-chaining another monitor. Thunderbolt would also work (and bandwidth limits would be much higher), but we need some seriously cheap TB3 controllers before this becomes viable.

Then my screen becomes a dock for the laptop.
 
garyc said:
There is an upside to this. It is amusing to watch someone taking their new MBP out of their bag at a meeting, including the tangle of things needed to actually make it work.
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We, with our HP Elitebooks and Lenovo T series always joke with them, that we have a solution for their "Donglelitis"
 
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