Originally Posted by
skofarrell
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.
Projecting powerpoints? No. Connecting my computer to the TV to share family photos, videos, mirror my screen, tradeshow powerpoint display... yes. Powerusers and "mainstream" users use their devices differently. I would even suggest that a mainstream user may be more likely to notice the missing HDMI port than a power user.
When a $200 Chromebook has a better selection of ports than a Macbook, there's something wrong with that.