Apple is now officially a dongle company that happens to make smartphones and computers

[rickyross]

Apple is now officially a dongle company that happens to make smartphones and computers (Updated) - ExtremeTech

[Koen]

Timely thread. I suppose Im going to have to pay the $19 for a dongle!? Next week Im going in for a complete revamp of my hardware/software, Mac-pro, screen even printer etc. So they're getting slightly more of a dongle out of me for an exclusively dongle company.

Unlike the author on Extremeteck and as far as I know Im the only one in my entire company who is a die hard domestic Mac user and always have been. From the very first lap top they ever brought out. Much to my irritation its chunky battery exploded a few weeks ago in the hands of one of our domestics which I had very magnanimously allowed to use to learn on. We've never got on in the almost twenty years she's been stealing from me. The devils you know etc. She was sticking straightened paperclips into it at the time like some mad Voodoo priestess in vain attempts to reboot it back to life. Yes remember screen freezes...brings back fond memories.

I've never been a computer geek but being an Apple user unfortunately has meant I've had to become at least something of one over the years. Still besides gender Im like that trophy wife driving a Lotus who doesn't really know where reverse is so parks at odd angles to avoid ever having to.

So void of any embarrassment at all I need to ask should I dump the Mac-pro (Im still with the tower, you know when the industrial look was all the rage) idea and go for the Mac Mini's? I liked the look of the Mac Mini's, the three USB ports look rather close together but if I'm not mistaken they do seem to be there. The Mac-pro on the other hand is incredibly ugry, looks like a mini trash can, the sort of thing for used condoms in the WC at an upmarket gay bar. Something you would definitely want to hide under your sleek Beech-wood desk instead of leaving ontop. I never even bothered looking at it's ports such was my disinterest, I just made a mental note on where I could hide it.

My film editing craze has slowed down to almost a stand still but I still use some powerful graphics apps. Would this be a problem? A few of my applications don't work so well anymore but I've found alternative ways around most glitches or adapted to the demise of some functions by adapting others. Software has never been a problem for me. I just managed to slip that in in the last few years of my early education. Still would a Mac Mini simply remove the reverse gear entirely, or the entire gear box?

Im giving the industrial set up to the Voodoo priestess in the hope she manages to blow her head off this time. One way to recycle the domestics. Yah I mean computers of course [blush].

[Cwbguy]

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[AGxM]

Wasn't there some sort of agreement that all mobile manufacturers would use the same connector?.....or am I being a senile old bat?

[Plutark]

Wasn't there some sort of agreement that all mobile manufacturers would use the same connector?.....or am I being a senile old bat?

think they had but Apple is probably just fine with paying the fine with the money they make by selling these dongle lol.

[Koen]

Anyone know when or if the new Mac Mini's are coming out? Couldn't understand the salesmen, got the usual word salad response which I didnt have time to unjumble then apply any possible motive.

[Walter White]

Apple have not announced any news on a new Mac Mini. So nothing this year it seems. Perhaps next year.

[Koen]

Thanks Walter, just what I thought but didn't know. So no need waiting right?