Professionals need to connect more than 1 thing at once. A hard drive full of photographs/video/graphics/whatever files and a hard drive to backup that drive. Or a hard drive with files and an SD card. Apple is intentionally gimping their MacBook Air and cheaper MacBook Pro so that Pros can't use them simply because they need more f'ing ports.
I don't need a MacBook Pro. I am fine with my MacBook Air M!, but I really need more than 1 port. And Apple knows this. They could easily put 3 ports (2 usable when plugged into power) on all their laptops, but this way they force professionals to buy a 5k + laptop and leave the rest for people who just use their computer for Netflix and Instagram.
This is the thing I hate most about Apple. Intentionally gimping products and intentionally rolling out tech updates slowly to create demand and profit. Makes me sick. And they know I'm not going to switch to a PC, I'm going to buy the f'ing 5k laptop. For an extra thunderbolt port. Assholes.
Well, given Apple's entire software platform is based off of nerfed privatized versions of what was initially open source OS, makes sense they would intentionally worsen their products to yield more sales on higher margin variants in terms of hardware too. It has always been and always wlil be this way. (edit - one user's 'nerfed' is another user's 'optimized' :eyeroll: )
Apple sucks in a lot of ways I agree, but "equipment with features geared towards pros is more expensive than consumer-oriented equipment" is hardly just an Apple practice.
That said, those are thunderbolt ports: if the hard drive supports it, it can be daisy-chained.
@lagadu I agree, but we're talking about 1 more thunderbolt port and that's it. That's all it would take for the MacBook Air to be a pro usable device. It's just shameless.
@ColtMrFire Apple has A LOT of issues but when I tried going back to a Windows/Android (games and cheaper) I wanted to hurl.
For better or worse I’m in the Apple ecosystem. I’m still probably going to build a miniITX at some point for game compatibility but I would very likely make it a hackintosh.
like @lagadu said, the bandwidth and capability is there, just not the physical ports, so as much as I hate dongles and docks, that is probably the best answer for you. The new MacBook Air with M2 also has MagSafe in for charging in addition to the two thunderbolt ports
the 13" mbp is a strange product, it has essentially been two different products for quite a while now, sharing the same name. and now with the introduction of the 14" is was split up. it doesn't have MagSafe cause it wasn't updated, its the same body with new m2 guts
yeah, the split was originally the 2 port 13" mbp and the 4 port 13" mbp, the 2port didn't have the Touch Bar and used a lower power tier of CPUs than the 4 port models. they eventually added the Touch Bar with the separate esc key to it though
I’m not really sure what you’re asking. Yes thunderbolt hubs exist. That’s why I said a dock would be a solution, turn the one port into many. Usb-c docks/hubs would also be an option depending on quite how bandwidth heavy your needs are. Thunderbolt was ubuitous on macs quite a while before that was the case on the pcs
Basically, you need a CalDigit TS3+ or TS4. Sucks but that dock supplies power + all the ports with one cable. Expensive, but works. @drfindley is the one who turned me on to them.
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