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I bought an SE rather than a 7. Size is a better fit for me and I still use the audio jack. A lot. So Apple had an upgrade path for me.

But with the new MacBook Pro, they cut out USB-A. If they'd kept it on the entry level model, that'd be my upgrade path. Instead, I'll eek out maybe a couple more years on my current MBP.

BTW, I'm not sure at all why they ditched MagSafe. They did all this and kept the RCA port. Now that's a head scratcher.

On the plus side, I'm a big fan of the T1 Secure Enclave processor.

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I think the losses of Magsafe and the 3.5" headphone socket will go down as the point Apple finally lost it. Magsafe was such a perfect example of Apple doing small innovation, utterly brilliantly; if they've ditched it purely to save half a millimetre off thickness, it's all the proof I need that the lunatics have taken over.

> I think the losses of Magsafe and the 3.5" headphone socket will go down as the point Apple finally lost it. Magsafe was such a perfect example of Apple doing small innovation, utterly brilliantly.

I agree 100% with magsafe. I am hoping a 3rd party (like the breaksafe but recommended by apple) comes up and fills the void. If not, I am not entire sure what my next upgrade will be. I may wait another 5 years!

Magsafe has saved me a whole bunch of times, which I have seen echoed in many other comments across the other threads over the past few days. I know some peoples comments were that the threads frayed. But surely they could have come up with Magsafe 3 with better cable shielding?

Can't agree with you more! The lunatics have indeed taken over.

Magsafe was genius but had known reliability issues on the long run, making charging increasingly finicky with time.

Agreed, if there is one thing that Apple are absolutely appalling at its power supplies. The amount of power supplies I've bought over the years, at £60 a pop is about 7, for two laptops over 7 years! And they ALL fail in the same way, with the either mag safe end fraying and sparking! or the cable cracking and exposing wires at the power block end (because of the stupid design decision to force a right angle bend when wrapping the cable around the pop-out cable hooks...)

You guys are hilarious.

I just picture you back when the iMac was first released without, god forbid, a floppy disk drive or ADB ports.

The fact is that just like before in a year from now when all peripherals support USB-C we will herald Apple as a visionary once again.

Yeah - but probably 2-3 years. USB took that long to catch on.

I detect a whiff of hyperbole in everyone postings on the subject. The sky is not falling. That said, I am annoyed at the net loss of two ports - just one USB A port would have been helpful.

It was also missing SCSI! How can I possibly connect all my external SCSI drives without all kinds of annoying adapter boxes? No one will ever buy this crap!

> BTW, I'm not sure at all why they ditched MagSafe. They did all this and kept the RCA port. Now that's a head scratcher.

It makes sense to me: we'll have RCA ports long, long after MagSafe, USB and FireWire are nothing but memories. As long as man has two ears, we'll have RCA ports.

Does it still have the mini-toslink optical fiber connection inside the headphone jack? They've had these since 2005. Could be a reason to keep the headphone port.

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