Comments on: My MacBook Pro Doesn’t Have a Parallel Port!

By: Yazi

Yazi — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:48:47 +0000

Like Kim Komando said, “the iMac should have a floppy drive.”

Amazing what those with no hope of a clue think…

By: Zed

Zed — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:29:27 +0000

I remember in the early 90s my friends ragging me because my Mac didn’t have a 5 1/4 inch floppy drive, too.

Technology changes. Get over it.

By: bap

bap — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 03:16:05 +0000

I actually predicted the new books release after the bump in the white one.

I feel that the Express slot may have been removed for another reason as well.

The new iPhone allows for tethering – when ATT says so – and at additional cost!!

By: Jeremiah Sheward

Jeremiah Sheward — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:15:38 +0000

HP has had combo USB/eSATA ports for almost a year and Toshiba has recently started adding them i see no reason apple couldn’t use that next revision but they will need a way to make the port look good cause it looks like crap in the Toshiba’s and not much better on the HP but its nice to combine the two it saves space

By: Eric Schwarz

Eric Schwarz — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 02:27:48 +0000

I just came across (not even related to this article) a photo of Dell’s Adamo notebook. It has a combo eSATA/USB port. Plug in an eSATA cable, it’s eSATA. Plug in a USB cable, it’s USB. If you use the special Dell optical drive, it uses the eSATA signal, but taps into USB for power. I think Apple could offer something like this for those who really want eSATA—why even bother with cards?

By: Constable Odo

Constable Odo — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:35:25 +0000

Good one. Why not bring back those serial ports, too. The first thing I bought when I got my MacBook Pro with an Express 34 card slot. I had to go out and buy a SDHC card adapter and a 8 GB SDHC card so I could get some use out of that darn slot. And now these people are complaining. Apple just can’t win. Users wanted both types of slots. I guess they don’t sell SDHC to Express 34 adapters. Haha. Sorry, but I’m still using my SDHC adapter and that’s that. Next year with the 64 GB and 128 GB SDHC cards for sale, maybe I’ll be sitting pretty. Unless that’s gonna be some new standard. In that case, I guess it’s time for a new MacBook Pro.

Believe it or not, it was just last year when I started throwing away all my SCSI hardware and some Apple Bus cables. I guess they’re not coming back, either. I didn’t even shed one tear. I said to myself that I’d better just keep pace with the industry and cut my losses rather than bitch and moan about being cheated over the loss of “legacy” hardware I rarely had much use for as the years went by.

I’m telling ya, there’s always gonna be some dick complaining about a lost port or slot but Apple is not gonna build a 24 port/slot laptop because they just don’t look fashionable enough with that many holes on the side. Probably be a bit flimsy, too.