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Yeah, and where’s my serial port? Tv Tuner? Heck, I can’t even get GPIO from this so-called “pro” machine. It should also have a metronome dial for musicians. And a slide-out drawing pad for graphic designers. A secondary e-ink display for writers. And I should be able to make it double as a hot plate for easy test kitchening. “Pro” machine, bah.

What, no bottle opener ?

Mac Book Pro's haven't had a DVD drive for years, can't remember the last time I needed a DVD.

It's explicitly not a 'Pro' machine though

The nice thing about the "Air" brand is that it's generic enough that it can be used for stuff geared towards anyone.

You forgot the '/s'...

I enjoyed this and the rest of your comments, haha.

So they can sell those as addons.

Yes, I'm sure Apple is desperate to cash in on all of that mad DVD drive money.

Maybe not the DVD drive, but certainly a USB hub for more ports and an external SD card reader.

I'm about 95% sure Apple doesn't actually make a USB hub. (I'd check, but the store is still down for keynote-related updates.)

I think positing that Apple somehow makes extra money by making people buy third-party USB hubs—the vast majority of which will be bought from Amazon, whether or not Apple sells any in their own online store—is stretching juuuust a little bit to paint them as greedy.

This attitude is unshrewd business. They certainly sell USB c hubs, probably Belkin branded with almost-Apple quality finishing, at a 50% markup or more over a similar generic option. They make money off the products sold in their store, by creating a market that wouldn’t have existed if all the ports were in the laptop in the first place.

This attitude is unshrewd business. They certainly sell USB c hubs, probably Belkin branded with almost-Apple quality finishing, at a 50% markup over a similar generic option. They make money off the products sold in their store, by creating a market that wouldn’t have existed if all the ports were in the laptop

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