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Yea, that's great Dave, for home use. Client in my office. Has some files he wants to share with our attorney. "Hey, can't you just connect to my wireless Hard Drive?"
Yea...no. How much faster would it be to just use a USB stick?
Then have your clients computer connect to your network, and move the files from his (or her) computer to your hard drive.
My experience with 3rd party dongles and doodads for Apple products is not very positive.
That has not been the case with the Macs I have. While all have ports and such, I use several non-Apple printers, home receiver, hard drives, Bluetooth speakers, and so on. Since I save my photos to external hard drives, I have several WD drives, as well as a Plugable USB dock with SATA drives. Apple third party device-market is huge. The said, hard drives are compatible with both the PC and Macs.
As for me, I am not interested on full wireless computers because I have too much invested on wired ones. But in a not very distant future, wire (ports) will be old technology.
That has not been the case with the Macs I have. While all have ports and such, I use several non-Apple printers, home receiver, hard drives, Bluetooth speakers, and so on. Since I save my photos to external hard drives, I have several WD drives, as well as a Plugable USB dock with SATA drives. Apple third party device-market is huge. The said, hard drives are compatible with both the PC and Macs.
As for me, I am not interested on full wireless computers because I have too much invested on wired ones. But in a not very distant future, wire (ports) will be old technology.
I meant the dongles and adapters. The Apple versions work better, and last longer, in my experience. I agree with you on all that other stuff.
The biggest appeal, IMO, is the screen. The macbook air's screens are as horrible as they get. Retina (on macbook pros) screens are amazing in comparison (even with their color limitations)
Apple are never going to please all the people all the time.
My MacBook Pro has two USB ports, an HDMI port, an SDI port and a couple of Thunderbolt ports? How often do I use them? Not often!
From time to time I use one of the USB ports, the SDI port for my camera card (but I could connect the camera through the USB) and the HDMI. I could easily get by with one USB port if the other benefits were there.
That said, the processor is too slow and 8 Gigs of memory is on the low side in my opinion.
Yea, that's great Dave, for home use. Client in my office. Has some files he wants to share with our attorney. "Hey, can't you just connect to my wireless Hard Drive?"
Yea...no. How much faster would it be to just use a USB stick?
Simple answer; Airdrop. Or Bluetooth transfer. Or any other of dozens of wireless options.
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Simple answer; Airdrop. Or Bluetooth transfer. Or any other of dozens of wireless options.
You keep proposing a bunch of solutions that are more hassle than "here's a USB stick."
The USB stick is great because it just works. It doesn't require proprietary tech like AirDrop. It doesn't require allowing strange computers onto my network and potentially giving them access to data I don't want them to see. It doesn't require that I have the two computers that need to share data on the same network or in the same room. Not every device is wireless and networked.
We'll eventually get to the point where wireless everything is workable, but IMHO we're not quite there yet. I don't need a ton of ports (I use a MacBook Air at home), but I do still need some.
You keep proposing a bunch of solutions that are more hassle than "here's a USB stick."
Well, I can't have kept proposing anything if that was my first reply in this thread.
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Originally Posted by JasonF
The USB stick is great because it just works. It doesn't require proprietary tech like AirDrop. It doesn't require allowing strange computers onto my network and potentially giving them access to data I don't want them to see. It doesn't require that I have the two computers that need to share data on the same network or in the same room. Not every device is wireless and networked.
Bluetooth file transfers are anything but proprietary ... and if you think a USB stick is any less dangerous than anything else then I invite you to use the ones scattered around NYC embedded in the brick walls. On top of that, AirDrop is suggested as an option since we are talking about a "Mac".
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Originally Posted by JasonF
We'll eventually get to the point where wireless everything is workable, but IMHO we're not quite there yet. I don't need a ton of ports (I use a MacBook Air at home), but I do still need some.
For many, we are there. I too use a MacBook Air, and an older iMac and MacBook Pro ... and the number of ports I use on all three is 0. They all backup to a 3TB HD networked through a router. They all print to networked printers. They all use bluetooth keyboards and mouses/mice (not sure what the plural of this is).
People complained when Apple got rid of floppy drives, and when they got rid of optical drives, and when they got rid of ethernet ports. People complained when Apple included USB 1.1. ports and abandoned legacy ports on the first iMac. Bottom line is ... people complain and say Apple is wrong, until they realize Apple is paving the way.
If I need peripherals while at my "work station", I have absolutely no issue with a USB-C dongle/dock that requires one connection to the Mac to make use of those devices and one disconnection to get up and work elsewhere.
Bottom line is, for some people this type of set up works now ... for some it will work later, and for others they will simply refuse to change. And for those that feel it doesn't work now and never will ... don't get a new MacBook. Pretty simple.
There's also no CD/DVD drive. No more burning of CD files, compressed or uncompressed, to ITunes.
Apple has a vision, but I'm not a part of it.
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