I hate it when manufacturers remove useful stuff to make laptops as flat as possible. Sure, some things disappear because time moves on, like CD drives, but WHY do I need to buy an extension cord to connect my laptop to an ethernet cable? It’s not just Apple, even a lot of Thinkpads lack a proper RJ45 port these days
i don’t understand who even wants a laptop so thin it can legitimately cut soft bread, i understand wanting them light but surely you want a laptop to fit your hand when closed???
I’m equally baffled with the insistence on thin phones, are people not holding them? Do the thin edges not dig into their hands??
my ideal laptop format would be a thinkpad x220t with a thinner screen and maybe like 5mm shaved off the body thickness, other than that it’s just… optimal… (especially being able to actually hold it by the battery, why would i not want to be able to use my laptop while standing?)
Again the thing that actually needs reducing is weight, shrink the internals to a single board and keep the chassis the same.
Wow, the X220t is a thick boi! I tend to agree that weight is a far more important factor than size. Carrying my old laptop around was a pain, I think it weighed around 2.5kg, maybe a bit more? Upgrading to a T480 felt insane. At the same time, I kind of get wanting a slim device. It’s easier to fit them in a backpack (even with a protective case), and I’m glad my phone is relatively slim (8mm) because its case makes it significantly thicker. But yeah, this obsession with making things as thin as possible feels weird, especially because smartphones are now thin but have massive camera lenses that stick out
idk unfortunately i’m definitely in the group of people who is fine with a tiny bit of compromise for a bit of thinness, i’d rather have a slightly thinner laptop and a couple of adapters for ethernet/displayport etc
it’s when companies exclude ports when they clearly could have fit them that annoys me, like modern windows laptops without headphone jacks, or when laptops only have micro sd slots when a fullsize sd card reader is essential for using 95% of cameras made in the past like 15 years, probably motivated purely by cost cutting
i don’t use a macbook but a macbook pro with a charge port + 3x usb 4 + hdmi + sd is in my opinion almost the perfect compromise
You know what, that’s a good point. Some people genuinely don’t need an ethernet port and prefer a slightly thinner device that fits in their bag a little easier. I guess what I’m “upset” about is that it’s becoming the default or even the only available option. And removing ports even though they could fit without making the device thicker is incredibly annoying, I agree
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I hate it when manufacturers remove useful stuff to make laptops as flat as possible. Sure, some things disappear because time moves on, like CD drives, but WHY do I need to buy an extension cord to connect my laptop to an ethernet cable? It’s not just Apple, even a lot of Thinkpads lack a proper RJ45 port these days
well now its all like that not only apple yeah
i have cardreader/hdmi/charge/jack three thunderbolt 4 ports
thunderbolt 4/3 is sosossosos insanely awesome ports, but helll 90% of shit still using usb-a ports
and still 3 ports is very small amount
i don’t understand who even wants a laptop so thin it can legitimately cut soft bread, i understand wanting them light but surely you want a laptop to fit your hand when closed???
I’m equally baffled with the insistence on thin phones, are people not holding them? Do the thin edges not dig into their hands??
my ideal laptop format would be a thinkpad x220t with a thinner screen and maybe like 5mm shaved off the body thickness, other than that it’s just… optimal… (especially being able to actually hold it by the battery, why would i not want to be able to use my laptop while standing?)
Again the thing that actually needs reducing is weight, shrink the internals to a single board and keep the chassis the same.
Wow, the X220t is a thick boi! I tend to agree that weight is a far more important factor than size. Carrying my old laptop around was a pain, I think it weighed around 2.5kg, maybe a bit more? Upgrading to a T480 felt insane. At the same time, I kind of get wanting a slim device. It’s easier to fit them in a backpack (even with a protective case), and I’m glad my phone is relatively slim (8mm) because its case makes it significantly thicker. But yeah, this obsession with making things as thin as possible feels weird, especially because smartphones are now thin but have massive camera lenses that stick out
Margins on peripherals are much higher in comparison to the base unit.
That’s true, and something I’ve noticed, too. I just never connected the two things. Especially branded peripherals can be super expensive.
idk unfortunately i’m definitely in the group of people who is fine with a tiny bit of compromise for a bit of thinness, i’d rather have a slightly thinner laptop and a couple of adapters for ethernet/displayport etc
it’s when companies exclude ports when they clearly could have fit them that annoys me, like modern windows laptops without headphone jacks, or when laptops only have micro sd slots when a fullsize sd card reader is essential for using 95% of cameras made in the past like 15 years, probably motivated purely by cost cutting
i don’t use a macbook but a macbook pro with a charge port + 3x usb 4 + hdmi + sd is in my opinion almost the perfect compromise
You know what, that’s a good point. Some people genuinely don’t need an ethernet port and prefer a slightly thinner device that fits in their bag a little easier. I guess what I’m “upset” about is that it’s becoming the default or even the only available option. And removing ports even though they could fit without making the device thicker is incredibly annoying, I agree