{"id":28358,"date":"2020-03-10T16:00:28","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T20:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=28358"},"modified":"2020-03-10T16:00:28","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T20:00:28","slug":"vanishing-macbook-pro-ports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/10\/vanishing-macbook-pro-ports\/","title":{"rendered":"Vanishing MacBook Pro Ports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/post\/2020\/03\/fun-with-charts-the-rise-and-fall-of-macbook-pro-ports\/\">Jason Snell<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/post\/2020\/03\/fun-with-charts-the-rise-and-fall-of-macbook-pro-ports\/\">\n<p>This chart covers the era of 15-inch laptops, from the original Titanium PowerBook G4 in 2001, and also includes the 16-inch MacBook Pro (2019). I chose the last top-of-the-line 15-inch laptop to be released in a given year, and no, I didn&rsquo;t include any bigger or smaller laptops.<\/p>\n<p>Witness the rise and fall of Apple laptop ports, which peaked at 11 with the 2003-2005 MacBook Pros and has reached an all-time low the past four years with five[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jernejv\/status\/1236059074216767488\">Jernej Virag<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jernejv\/status\/1236059074216767488\">\n<p>My new 13\" Razer laptop has both TB3 USB-C ports and USB-A ports. Hard to describe how much less annoying it is to actually connect it to things compared to a Mac.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/snell-charting-ports\/\">Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/snell-charting-ports\/\">\n<p>While neither an ExpressCard or SD Card slot are ports, <em>per se<\/em>, I think the removal of those connection options is also noteworthy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As is the removal of the optical drive.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Snell: This chart covers the era of 15-inch laptops, from the original Titanium PowerBook G4 in 2001, and also includes the 16-inch MacBook Pro (2019). I chose the last top-of-the-line 15-inch laptop to be released in a given year, and no, I didn&rsquo;t include any bigger or smaller laptops. Witness the rise and fall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[295,30,100,175,1154],"class_list":["post-28358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-history","tag-mac","tag-macbookpro","tag-usb","tag-usb-c"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28359,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28358\/revisions\/28359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}