Worth waiting for 2016 MacBook Pro for USB-C?
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I hope they don't get rid of the sd card reader. But from the leaks it seem they might!
The slot is really useful, especially for expanding the inbuilt storage capabilities. I've got a 2012 Macbook Air with a 128GB SSD, when this got full I stuck a 128GB micro SD card into an adapter which sits in the sd card slot and is completely flush, and totally removable.
The slot is really useful, especially for expanding the inbuilt storage capabilities. I've got a 2012 Macbook Air with a 128GB SSD, when this got full I stuck a 128GB micro SD card into an adapter which sits in the sd card slot and is completely flush, and totally removable.
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They better not get rid of the damn 3.5mm port.
Caporegime
Oh come on it's hardly a deal breaker is it. Wireless headphones, job done 
Associate
Oh come on it's hardly a deal breaker is it. Wireless headphones, job done
Are you serious?
I've wanted a MBP for years. Let my laptop disintegrate (like they always do) and have been using a half broken laptop for a year waiting for this MBP. I'll be ****ed that I would have waited all this time without a laptop and have to buy another Windows one anyway if they don't have 3.5mm.
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Caporegime
Well, yes.
If the laptop is epic in every way and suited my needs perfectly but the only thing was the lack of a headphone port. I'd buy the laptop and then some wireless headphones. It's really not that big a deal.
If I can afford to spank out for a rMBP I can afford £25 on some wireless headphones.
Associate
So what happens to speakers, microphones.
Caporegime
It will have a built in microphone, like all laptops do anyway. And speakers, same as the headphones.
EDIT: And if you wanted external ones if you did more blogging etc then USB-C ones will be available, or adaptors for your existing ones. Et voila.
Associate
Same as headphones? Buy some cheapo bluetooth ones and make existing ones redundant.
I didn't think I'd actually have to worry about no 3.5mm port but some people somehow actually welcome the idea. Not having one on a phone is one thing but on a laptop.... not acceptable.
Caporegime
Orrrrrrr as I just posted. Grab a USB-C adaptor for your existing one.
Like people have done with the IP7.
I do not agree with the removal of the port. But I can see why and understand the reasoning and it wouldn't stop me from buying the laptop it self. I regularly use the headphone port on my current rMBP and work laptop. So I'd just get an adaptor and carry on
Soldato
Latest leaks look like the SD card slot has indeed been removed. That's really frustrating, as it is so convenient for photo and video transfer on the move.
Soldato
IIRC on the leaked parts images it still had a headphone jack. I doubt it's safe though; apparently Apple had a question in customer surveys recently about how much usage Mac owners were getting from it.
Soldato
What was the outcome of the survey?
Soldato
Does it matter? It's only there as an excuse. We all know what the outcome of the survey "how often do you use headphone jack on your phone" would be and yet it didn't stop them.
The task at hand is to get masses onto wireless apple ear tampons bandwagon, before narrowing the market to some sort of proprietary enhanced profile. If discontinuing headphone jack in MBP will help them, they will do it, end of.
Soldato
http://www.macrumors.com/2016/09/14/apple-macbook-pro-survey/
How would I know lol?
In any case the onboard audio of a laptop is never going to be sufficient to power the kind of headphones that audio-lovers care about - that's what USB DACs/amps are for, and if gen pop are happy with wireless audio (and they are judging by what I see on public transport etc) for mobile devices then they'll probably not make a fuss about the 3.5mm jack going on tablets and laptops.
EDIT - actually audio lovers might cry a bit because the 3.5mm jack of Macs has always doubled as a 3.5mm to optical TOSLINK digital audio output (it's how I connect my NAD DAC to my Mac Mini) but USB is perfectly okay as well.
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