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Jman13 wrote:
The Macbook's connectivity is a bummer, and you can argue that dongles provide what you need, but hanging extra crap off my machine to give it ports it should have natively doesn't appeal. The Macbook is slightly thinner than my Zenbook (1.31cm vs. 1.49cm), but my machine manages to have three USB ports, a charging port, HDMI output, headphone jack and SDXC card slot. I don't see any reason why Apple couldn't have done 3 USB-C connectors on the Macbook...it's just not that hard. Otherwise, it is a beautiful device, though.
I have had both the 11" Macbook Air and now the new MacBook. The screen is miles better on the new MacBook and the keyboard is a lot better too. I don't mind the connectivity as I think of the dongle as just part of the cord to charge the machine and the MacBook has a smaller power brick than the MacBook Air, so the new MacBook with the smaller brick and the cord (i.e., cord plus dongle) is quite a bit lighter than the one for the MacBook air. So you get a lighter machine, a much better screen, and a better keyboard than the MacBook Air. I have found the new MacBook to be a very nice upgrade, but if I were using it extensively for editing photos I would get a 13" MacBook Pro. Sure it is a lot heavier but I would want the extra horsepower and the ability to connect to a thunderbolt hard drive if I wanted.
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