And, of course, quite a few people really missed MagSafe. Some had USB peripherals with hardwired USB-A plugs and disliked having to fit adapters to those. Some argue that HDMI is still the most common display standard, and it’s a nuisance to have to carry an adapter to connect to monitors and projectors, especially when visiting client premises.
The lack of an SD card slot was the only thing that really bugged me.īut Apple also made a lot of other people very unhappy. And personally, I didn’t need many adapters – mostly I just swapped out a few cables. I also really appreciate the ability to connect a power adapter on either left or right side of my Mac, depending on what is most convenient at the time. Personally, I love a single-cable connection to my monitor, carrying power, video, and data. That decision made a lot of people very happy. Coupled to his earlier report of a new MagSafe power port, that’s a pretty dramatic change to the current models, which have just USB-C ports and a headphone socket.īut whether that’s an IO dream or nightmare depends on how Apple plans to implement the change…Īpple went all-in on USB-C ports in 2016, arguing that these offer support for anything you might want to connect to a Mac, either directly into the new ports or via adapters. We today got a more detailed report about what to expect in terms of 2021 MacBook Pro ports, with noted Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo saying we should expect both an HDMI port and an SD card slot. Based on recent supply-chain reports, the 2021 MacBook Pro ports could turn out to be either an IO dream or nightmare.
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