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Man, Mac users are the clumsiest beings on the World. Macs are what? Below 7% market share? And somehow 7%, based on constant whining, trips over their power cords much more than the silent 93% of the population.

You have a computer with four sockets on both sides, you can plug into each of these holes a standard (non-Apple) cable, on the other side of the cable can be a standard USB-C (non-Apple) charger or a battery pack that can charge your laptop together with your phone and your gadgets. And yet, that's much less important than the glorified party trick.




Please don't take HN threads into technical flamewars or any flamewars. We don't want those here.

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Does this really need to be trolled into a Mac-PC flamewar? MagSafe was popular (and widely recognized as a good feature even by PC users) because people use laptops in crowded places, have pets and kids, etc.

Nobody is saying that USB-C doesn't have strengths but this was a feature which many people felt valuable for valid reasons. It's also annoying to lose since it'd be an easy change to fix by putting the safety release on the charger so you'd have the same protection in the most common configuration.


Flamewar? I'm Mac user. And I consider USB-C the best thing on new MacBooks. If I ever change platform, I would not consider buying laptop with proprietary charging.

I have three Mag-Safe chargers in my drawer (one broken), from my previous laptops. If they're standard (USB-C) chargers, I would use them for something. So I hope Apple will not put any non-standard "safety releases" on their chargers in the future.

I hope someone will make a cable with something similar to mag-safe (I know there's couple of kickstarters, I don't know how good these thing works) so we can finally put this story behind.


>Man, Mac users are the clumsiest beings on the World. Macs are what? Below 7% market share? And somehow 7%, based on constant whining, trips over their power cords much more than the silent 93% of the population.

Or, you know, Mac users actually use their laptops outside, and in situations where one might trip on the charger cable much more often than PC users with clunky "desktop replacement" behemoths.

Besides, one obviously cares more for a $2000+ laptop going flying off the table than for a $500 POS PC laptop.

See how both sides can play the flame game?


Which both sides? I'm typing this on the MacBook Pro. And I'm really pissed off on Apple because of half-baked touch bar, and because letter N on my first generation butterfly keyboard is starting to stutter. But USB-C power? That's the thing I'm expecting Apple to do - to drive the whole industry kicking and screaming into the new direction. Do you really think we would see Dells and Lenovos and HPs with USB-C power without MacBooks being first, without compromises like "let's include MagSafe too"?




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