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Like everyone else, I love the MacBook 12. Give me one with a M-series, at the same (or less) weight, with Touch ID and the new keyboard. Like others, I don’t need more than 1 port. Not discounting anyone else’s need for it, but after living with it for a few years I really don’t need additional ports.

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The thing is that while you might be reasonable about this, there seems to be a completely baffling number of people whose argument seems to be "I don't need it, therefore they shouldn't include it". It's like.....no one is forcing you to use these extra ports? But it's very nice to have them and some people will need them. If it doesn't increase the weight or thickness of the device(and it definitely doesn't to add another USB-C to the 12" MacBook) then I don't understand why some people literally treat it like some betrayal of what the device is.

I agree. Reading all these comments made me realize how selfish some people could be.

I think that's a weird realization. Those other people don't use those port so they want everyone to have a MacBook without them. You want those port so you want everyone to have a MacBook without them.

Or wanting either of those tings is selfish, and you should've realized that what you want is selfish, or both aren't.

You're wrong. What they want literally makes the MBP not usable for many others, whereas what I (and many others) want doesn't affect the usability/performance of the MBP for anyone.

Exactly. If you have a MacBook with two ports and you use only one, the mere presence of the second port has no effect on your life. But if your MacBook only has one port and you need two then it's an actual inconvenience. It's not like we're paying per port of like they are adding weight. It's not cars where everyone's insistence to have cars that can do everything at once leads to some SUV monstrosities which are compromised in many ways, it's a laptop where having literally a modicum of extra functionality has no negative sides whatsoever, I guess apart from people on the internet saying they don't need them so they shouldn't be there.

We're not paying per port, but adding more ports surely adds to the BOM, which influences to total price.

And I agree that adding one port doesn't make the device noticeably heavier. But I thought we were talking about adding multiple I/O ports, since that's what the article says and other comment are talking about adding multiple USB A and C ports, MagSave, an SD slot and even an hdmi port. Adding all those ports will increase the size of the MacBooks.

I'm not saying it's wrong to want to have more ports (I wouldn't buy a notebook with one port). I'm saying that it's strange to call people egotistical for wanting fewer ports while failing to see that adding ports has consequences other people might care about.

My entire point was that people decry a lack of ports as a specific downside of the MacBook 12 and, in my opinion, that wasn’t an issue for me (or it seems several others).

Not all products have to appeal to all people, and products involve hundreds of trade offs. If more ports doesn’t mean increased weight or thickness, I’m not opposed!

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