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A tweet posted shortly after Apple's recent Macbook launch event underlined the absurdity: Apple now sells 17 different types of dongle.
In its ever-escalating war against connectivity ports, Apple's latest computers do away with the SD card port, a full-size USB port, and the HDMI port.
Instead, you'll need a dongle to convert those "legacy" connectors, as Apple put it on Friday, into the new, smaller USB-C port.
"We recognize that many users, especially pros, rely on legacy connectors to get work done today and they face a transition," the company said in a statement, without acknowledging that Apple's newest iPhone, released just last month, is one such "legacy" device - without a dongle (or a different cable, sold separately), you can't connect Apple's new smartphone to Apple's new laptop.
"We want to help them move to the latest technology and peripherals, as well as accelerate the growth of this new ecosystem."
That help will be a decent discount on the price of the dongles - it calls them adapters - until the end of this year.
How long before they release new dongles that must be individually charged?
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday November 09 2016, @01:31PM
Yeah I acknowledge you're probably correct but I don't care about those specs. I make stacks of cash using my fingers on keyboard and eyes on screen so I hate using cheap junk for either, nothing but top of the line please. You can translate those specs into time, like what you're talking about will kill CPU performance from 2017 levels to merely 2013 levels. I don't care because in 2013 I had a top of the line matte non-glossy high res high DPI monitor, genuine model M keyboard keyboard of the gods (aka no chance of carpal tunnel), and the CPU was fast enough in 2013 to make fat stacks of cash. I just can't downgrade my keyboard to atari400 levels or my display back to the days of CGA, not anymore. I wasn't CPU limited in 2013 and I won't be in 2017 either.
Its like rating laptops based on thinness. Yes thats very nice that someone minmaxed to a ridiculous value. Sorry, can't make me care about something that don't matter.
The CPU doesn't matter to me because I do all my work logged into bigger machines. Virtual images larger by far than anything you could imagine getting in laptop format. Even my dev and test servers are bigger because you can't realistically estimate performance without something similar to the PROD herd, similar test datasets for example.
I guess in summary I'm paid to read the display and make code appear on it, so I care immensely about keyboard and display, but I'm not paid to make the RAM access 18% faster, in fact back when that was 75% slower it was not an impairment to my job.