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  • Pundits believe Apple's Jony Ive no longer involved in iPhone, Mac product design [u]

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    avon b7 said:

    You have failed because you chose to label someone who has reasoned and defended his posts as a whiner, spreading BS and FUD, none of which is actually true.
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    Would you care to put my comment 'nightmare' back into context? You stripped it of any context because it was convenient (but totally lame of you to do so) and labelled it FUD!

    I have seen many swollen batteries. I have had them myself. They can swell. They do swell. When they swell they swell upwards, straight through the trackpad. These new MBPs have the battery glued to the casing in such a way that even a professional repair shop with infinite experience in pulling all kinds of Macs apart, COULD NOT REMOVE IT. Believe me, if in four or five years (or less if you are unlucky) your battery begins to swell, you will want to get it out pronto. Trying to prise it off will be a nightmare, swapping it out will also be a nightmare because you will have to replace the casing it is glued to and you don't know if that part will even be available. Now, in a previous post someone tried to defend Apple's decision due to thermal considerations and I answered that issue too.

    I have reasoned my opinion and defended it clearly, even against the attempts to defend Apple. This potential (because nobody has said that every battery will swell, right?) battery nightmare is just one example and your only recourse is to label it FUD.

    You are making yourself look stupid.
    Small numbers of batteries swell.  And it won't be a "nightmare" if mine does.  I'd take it in to Apple and for $199 it gets fixed. Sometimes the battery replacement is free even out of warranty. 

    If it think the bulging is unsafe I can still remove the cover to relieve the pressure before bringing it in.

    So more FUD on a post claiming you don't spread FUD.  Your "reasoning" is to take a scenario for which Apple has already provided the customer a simple and relatively inexpensive solution and claim it's a "nightmare" because iFixit can't pull batteries off because they aren't meant to be pulled off.

    You did the same thing regarding the SSD but there is a tool to pull off the data which is done for free for the user if a motherboard replacement is required.  Another non-issue you blew out of proportion with FUD.

    You're trolling.  Maybe 5-10% of your posts have something nice to say about Apple and usually in a backhanded way.  

    Most amusing is that the single CPU PowerMac you whined about in 2004 is the kind of machine you wished Apple built today.  A lower cost tower you claimed in 2004 was a huge mistake that didn't sell but in 2016 you think would sell really well.
    Soli

  • Apple cuts prices on USB-C & Thunderbolt 3 gear in response to MacBook Pro backlash

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    wiggin said:

    What would be the impact to you if the MBP did have a USB A port? Either in addition to the 4 C ports or in place of one (if you ever have 4 things plugged in at the same time, what are the odds that there isn't at least one of them that's a USB A device?). What harm would it cause you???
    It would cost me needing adapters to use USB-C devices on the 13" that has only two TB-C/USB-C ports.

    On the 13" and 15" with 4 TB-3/USB-C ports I will use 2 up for:

    Port 1: USB-C hub for HDMI, power, USB-A ports.  Alternatively a TB3 hub.
    Port 2: TB-3 SSD raid enclosure for 40Gbps throughput.

    In the future all my external drives will be USB-C.  I would then need to use an adapter.  That would be annoying. 

    I have 4 things plugged in my MBP every day: magsafe, TB-Ethernet adapter, Displayport, USB3 drive.

    At home it's magsafe, TB drive, USB3 drive, HDMI.

    Yeah, it would be harmful.  I'd rather have 4 fully functional ports than 2 fully functional ports and 2 gimped ports.