Lorin: I picked up an iMac 5K earlier this year, and the TosLink is still present in the MiniTRS.
Cool! I wonder why they kept it there but not on the MacBook Pro? Different chipsets? Reusing parts from a previous iteration and dropping it was more effort than keeping it? More room inside the iMac?
Not that it matters. It's nice that it's there.
Just curious... do you actually use it?
I had a couple of recorders that had optical inputs. One of those still works. Occasionally I use it for testing the optic input of gear.
totally bummed. It was the single coolest feature.. I just purchased a new MBP .. And hooking my optical cable up resulted in me finding this page.. According to Apple, it was removed because of lack of consumer use; Populace as a design metric for their products; at the end of the day we will be left with something that resembles the product equivalent of oatmeal... Designing to the lowest common denominator shows where Apple is headed- totally depressing.... they use to make great specialized products for great specialized people.. now they create mass market crap.
When my 2013 Macbook Pro - Thunderturd Display setup dies... I'm done with Macs. This new laptop offering is sad. No MagSafe, crappy GPU offerings, a dearth of useful ports, no quad core offerings except on the 15inch, RAM limited to 16GB, and questionable removal of the escape and function keys...
If anyone is skipping this years offering, what are you purchasing instead? I'm thinking I might look at Razer... Any other good options? I could always run MacOS in a vm if needed.
you're bitching about the function keys? get fucking real. not even the garden variety trolls care about the function keys.
Pardon my language, but... WTF ??? what kind of answer is this ????? Function keys - dealing with different interfaces, etc. on mac is to me rather essential. What on earth gives you the right to bash other people in this manner, with such unsubstantiated remark, and in the end call THEM - the person in question here - trolls ???? What you are doing is not trolling and completely debased and ignorant remark ? FCOL...
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Occasionally I use it for testing the optic input of gear.
Function keys - dealing with different interfaces, etc. on mac is to me rather essential.
What on earth gives you the right to bash other people in this manner, with such unsubstantiated remark, and in the end call THEM - the person in question here - trolls ????
What you are doing is not trolling and completely debased and ignorant remark ?
FCOL...