• Engywuck
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    -52 months ago

    That’s what I mean when I say that Apple is the worst even ever happened to technology.

    • @kayazere@feddit.nl
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      2 months ago

      Yes, pre 2013 models had a screwed in battery. I had a 2011 pro that I changed/upgraded the ram, hard drive, and battery myself.

      • @solrize@lemmy.world
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        Oh sweet child. What has Apple done to people? A removable battery looks like this:

        https://www.ifixit.com/products/lenovo-thinkpad-x220-x220i-x230i-replacement-battery

        You just snap it onto the computer. No disassembly. No tools. No screws. All laptops and cell phones except Apple used to have them. You could carry several charged batteries with you and swap them as needed. Some laptops even used two, so you could hot swap with no power interruption.

        And we walked to school barefoot, in the snow, uphill both ways. :)

  • @HeartyOfGlass@lemm.ee
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    1632 months ago

    Fuck firewire. Glad it’s dead. USB C is the best thing to happen to peripherals since the mouse.

  • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost
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    62 months ago

    Fades is either drinking Apple flavor Kool-Aid or has been fully brainwashed by apple into thinking everything is okay because a company said “you don’t care, you’re stuck here with us.”

    It’s really sad how people will bootlick for any company once they bought enough products.

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    2 months ago

    All the people saying buy a dongle are forgetting to mention that dongles stop working all the fucking time. It’s yet another potential point of failure that stops ALL work dead in its tracks if it happens.

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      52 months ago

      On the other hand, ports on laptops fail too, so having several USB-C ports that can do basically everything is great for if one or two of them somehow break.

      If the HDMI port on your laptop breaks, and the only other stuff you have is 3xUSB-A, ethernet, and an SD card slot, you’re shit out of luck if you want to output to a monitor or TV.

      • @NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com
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        02 months ago

        Out of the two, you’re more likely to have the dongle break first. Those cables have a limited life of bending before snapping or the internal wiring coming undone or a failed connection or just cheap hardware. My first dongle I bought about 2 years ago is getting to that point with me carrying it in my backpack.

        I still have my IBM ThinkPad running Windows 95 that has all of its ports still working to this day. The screen hinges are the only thing that has broken on it in all this time. Same for many other laptops I’ve had over the years. Even a gaming laptop I had had its plastic housing break along the sides of the ports due to a fall, but no ports were ever damaged or became inoperable in its life.

  • @ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org
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    Do the bottom two have the same charging port? Impossible!

    Also, my first time seeing the newer FireWire and whatever the video output is…

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    I’m no Apple fanboy (never owned a product of theirs and never will) but to be fair, those two USB-C ports can do everything the old, removed ports can do and more. The real crime here is not putting enough of them on the laptop.

    Edit: The only port I’ll lament the removal of is the headphone jack. USB-C headphones are rare, adapters get lost, and bluetooth headphones compress the audio and have input lag. Everything else can go, though, and won’t be missed. (Okay fine ethernet can stay too.)

  • @RoyBattyButCoward@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    302 months ago

    I miss having a thousand different cables to keep track of /s

    really, all we need is the companies to start packing those laptops with thunderbolt3 or equivalent USB-C (USB 4). I love the old ports, but they were unnecessary. I’d rather the industry finally takes on the open thunderbolt standard and we’re all good to go. With 10 thunderbolt ports you have 10 HDMI, or 10 USB, or 10 Ethernet, or 10 headphone jacks, or 10 RJ45 or whatever you need + PCIe tunneling.

  • @Shady_Shiroe@lemmy.world
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    652 months ago

    To make our laptops look clean and minimalistic, they made us buy a bunch of dongles and adapters.

    Screw it, I’m buying a rugged laptop with the thickness of a desktop PC next