The new 12inch Macbook
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What's also interesting is that the security folk at my employer (fortune 500 co) have forbidden use of usb drives. Policy has been pushed down to make them not work at the AV/OS level on our Windows PC's. This was done due to risk of information leaking out of the enterprise and introduction of viruses....
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What's also interesting is that the security folk at my employer (fortune 500 co) have forbidden use of usb drives. Policy has been pushed down to make them not work at the AV/OS level on our Windows PC's. This was done due to risk of information leaking out of the enterprise and introduction of viruses....
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That would make my job as a software engineer incredibly difficult if my employer ever implemented that. Speaking of difficult, there was a time immediately after we moved from XP to 7 where they were trying to remove local admin rights from everyone. That really didn't work well.
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What's also interesting is that the security folk at my employer (fortune 500 co) have forbidden use of usb drives. Policy has been pushed down to make them not work at the AV/OS level on our Windows PC's. This was done due to risk of information leaking out of the enterprise and introduction of viruses....
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That limits them to what? A four year old MBP 15, or a non retina 13? Is there something that the average user should be worried about?
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Style over substance as always with Apple.
Doesn't change that this is a gorgeous machine - but claiming a single USB port HAD to be there because of the space, is the usual Apple user trying to justify the lack of a very normal feature. Reminds me of all the iPhone users in 2007 claiming 3G really wasn't that important anyway, while the rest of us were all enjoying 3G.
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I believe they are referring to the "Thunderstrike" Thunderbolt port exploit that was fixed in 10.10.2. No public instances of Thunderstrike attacks have been reported.
Makes sense.
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The only real difference here is spending the extra $19 on the USBC to USB adapter, which most people will likely do for now.
...and if you buy a Surface, you're shelling out for the same Dongles..
This reminds me of the old Windows vs OS/2 days when people compared formatting floppies under the two environments to show OS'2's superior multitasking.
This device will be perfect for me when I travel, and will in reality will likely replace my iPad. Its already caused me to drop about 3lbs from by bag counting the MBP 13" and the power supply that's been left behind.
We'll see how it goes.
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Not seeing the big deal here...if you're a mac shop at work you likely have AppleTV's on your conference room projectors, so you don't need the dongle. If your company is buying Macs, the extra $79 for VGA (or HDMI, who needs both??) is immaterial, and in reality is already a sunk cost as you'd a bought the thunderbolt one anyway. If you're using them at school or at home, you're probably not spending a lot of time projecting powerpoints, so who needs a dongle?
The only real difference here is spending the extra $19 on the USBC to USB adapter, which most people will likely do for now.
...and if you buy a Surface, you're shelling out for the same Dongles..
This reminds me of the old Windows vs OS/2 days when people compared formatting floppies under the two environments to show OS'2's superior multitasking.
This device will be perfect for me when I travel, and will in reality will likely replace my iPad. Its already caused me to drop about 3lbs from by bag counting the MBP 13" and the power supply that's been left behind.
We'll see how it goes.
The only real difference here is spending the extra $19 on the USBC to USB adapter, which most people will likely do for now.
...and if you buy a Surface, you're shelling out for the same Dongles..
This reminds me of the old Windows vs OS/2 days when people compared formatting floppies under the two environments to show OS'2's superior multitasking.
This device will be perfect for me when I travel, and will in reality will likely replace my iPad. Its already caused me to drop about 3lbs from by bag counting the MBP 13" and the power supply that's been left behind.
We'll see how it goes.
When a $200 Chromebook has a better selection of ports than a Macbook, there's something wrong with that.