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
Why not allow both? We're both speculating, but they gain nothing by removing USB-C charging
My prediction, because it's such an obvious thing to do, is that Apple will offer a Magsafe connector - but in the middle of the Magsafe connector on the laptop, will also be a USB-C port. So you could charge either with the Magsafe cable, or a standard USB-C cable, and also the Magsafe port is not taking up one of the USB-C slots when you are not charging.
There are a number of companies selling things somewhat like this - adapters so that you plug a magnetic connector into USB-c on your laptop, then use a cable that's magnetic on the end. It's a bit of a hassle because there's a thing sticking out the side of your otherwise nice looking laptop, and a random little adapter to keep track of if you take it out.
What would be ideal (IMO) would be that there's one magnetic connector that's power + everything else, and then a few USB-c connectors just like now. So
Yes, that would be best if the magnetic connector could hook up a whole dock of all other connectors, almost like a custom USB-C port that could also support faster charging or maybe even multiple USB-C buses (not sure what the proper term for that would be)..
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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
Why not really have both... (Score:1)
Why not allow both? We're both speculating, but they gain nothing by removing USB-C charging
My prediction, because it's such an obvious thing to do, is that Apple will offer a Magsafe connector - but in the middle of the Magsafe connector on the laptop, will also be a USB-C port. So you could charge either with the Magsafe cable, or a standard USB-C cable, and also the Magsafe port is not taking up one of the USB-C slots when you are not charging.
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There are a number of companies selling things somewhat like this - adapters so that you plug a magnetic connector into USB-c on your laptop, then use a cable that's magnetic on the end. It's a bit of a hassle because there's a thing sticking out the side of your otherwise nice looking laptop, and a random little adapter to keep track of if you take it out.
What would be ideal (IMO) would be that there's one magnetic connector that's power + everything else, and then a few USB-c connectors just like now. So
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Yes, that would be best if the magnetic connector could hook up a whole dock of all other connectors, almost like a custom USB-C port that could also support faster charging or maybe even multiple USB-C buses (not sure what the proper term for that would be)..