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It befuddles the mind that you would develop a laptop that defeats the entire point of being a thin laptop, by ensuring you must carry a bag full of adapters and dongles.

The MacBook Air may fit in envelope, but does all it's cables and adapters fit in that envelope with it?

Terrible design.

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I feel silly defending apple, but if it really does have a 8 hour battery life and your workflow doesn't directly involve peripherals - what would you need to lug around?

I don't understand people who complain about dongles. What is the difference between carrying around a corded peripheral, and a corded peripheral with a two-inch extension that solves your legacy connector problems?

To me the biggest case is going places where I might have an unexpected peripheral need. For instance, it's not uncommon for someone to need to transfer me some files with a flash drive.

If I were to buy this thing, I'd have to carry a USB Type-A dongle all the time, just in case. Rather than have say... an extra millimeter of thickness, and the USB port just built right in.

I'm fairly sure it wont be too long before they come out with USB/USB-C flash drives. I've already seen several USB/Micro-USB drives.

Sure, but what will be the adoption rate? Do people have to have both or drives with both ports? For how long will you be more likely to see standard USB flash drives than USB-C ones? What will the cost of USB-C flash drives be compared to standard USB ones?

All important questions to answer before you walk out the door without a dongle.

How long until everyone you know (include non technical people) upgrade to them? I personally don't carry flash drives around, but I occasionally need to get files from non technical friends who do, and many of them are still using old 128mb or less USB 1.1 flash drives.

Why would they go out and buy new ones to fit in certain models of laptop if the limited capacity and slow speed hasn't already gotten them to replace it?

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