Why not allow both? We're both speculating, but they gain nothing by removing USB-C charging and then can sell Apple branded battery packs down the road or at least say they support it. Tim Cook's apple seems more open to playing nicely with others.
Magsafe was awesome. Everyone loved it. It worked precisely as designed, produced less wear and tear from daily proper usage, and has saved MANY laptops. Not only was it effective, it just 'felt' cool to hear that snap when you got the cable close enough
Magsafe was awesome. Everyone loved it. It worked precisely as designed, produced less wear and tear from daily proper usage, and has saved MANY laptops.
Never heard anyone saying his laptop broke because of lack of magsafe. Never.
Not only was it effective, it just 'felt' cool to hear that snap when you got the cable close enough.
Can't argue with you here. Typical Apple user I guess. The real reason to use Apple is because of how it feels. It doesn't matter how crappy or overpriced the product is, as long as it feels good.
Never heard anyone saying his laptop broke because of lack of magsafe. Never.
And yet, broken power jacks are one of the most common problems in laptops. Enough so that many teardowns see if the power jack is soldered to a circuit board or plugs into the motherboard because it's a common replacement item.
And there are countless examples where someone has tripped over a power cable and sent the attached laptop to the floor.
I've even seen it done by the presenter at a seminar.
Anyhow, there's nothing to say Apple won't allow both methods - USB-C charging AND MagSafe. Many PC laptops have multiple charging options - this Dell I'm using (XPS 13) has both a regular charger socket or I can plug a USB-C PD charger into the USB-C port and it will charge that way. I use the regular adapter because at the time it was cheaper than a USB-C PD charger, but I've been curious and have plugged in PD chargers into it and see it charge as well.
In fact, many laptops with USB-C ports and custom chargers (e.g., Lenovo) support both ports for charging even though they don't say so.
Proprietary or Nothing (Score:5, Interesting)
Why not both? (Score:5, Interesting)
Magsafe was awesome. Everyone loved it. It worked precisely as designed, produced less wear and tear from daily proper usage, and has saved MANY laptops. Not only was it effective, it just 'felt' cool to hear that snap when you got the cable close enough
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Magsafe was awesome. Everyone loved it. It worked precisely as designed, produced less wear and tear from daily proper usage, and has saved MANY laptops.
Never heard anyone saying his laptop broke because of lack of magsafe. Never.
Not only was it effective, it just 'felt' cool to hear that snap when you got the cable close enough.
Can't argue with you here. Typical Apple user I guess. The real reason to use Apple is because of how it feels. It doesn't matter how crappy or overpriced the product is, as long as it feels good.
Re:Why not both? (Score:3)
And yet, broken power jacks are one of the most common problems in laptops. Enough so that many teardowns see if the power jack is soldered to a circuit board or plugs into the motherboard because it's a common replacement item.
And there are countless examples where someone has tripped over a power cable and sent the attached laptop to the floor.
I've even seen it done by the presenter at a seminar.
Anyhow, there's nothing to say Apple won't allow both methods - USB-C charging AND MagSafe. Many PC laptops have multiple charging options - this Dell I'm using (XPS 13) has both a regular charger socket or I can plug a USB-C PD charger into the USB-C port and it will charge that way. I use the regular adapter because at the time it was cheaper than a USB-C PD charger, but I've been curious and have plugged in PD chargers into it and see it charge as well.
In fact, many laptops with USB-C ports and custom chargers (e.g., Lenovo) support both ports for charging even though they don't say so.
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And yet, broken power jacks are one of the most common problems in laptops. [...]And there are countless examples where someone has tripped over a
So common I have never heard about it.