I agree with you. I don't want to carry around adapters for everything with a notebook. I also want something upgradable. This is something apple doesn't believe in. Virtually every notebook I've ever owned has been upgraded in some way over its life. It has gotten a memory or hard drive upgrade at some point in its life. Many have had batteries replaced(or a second one added in place of the optical drive). I had the last of the non retina macbooks which was upgraded to a ssd and to 16 gigs of ram. It had normal usb ports, a better power adapter(I think the magsafe is better than usb c) and Ethernet which I need. The battery wasn't easy to replace but at least it wasn't glued in. It would be nice to see a 13 inch notebook with the mobile quad core processor or better than intel graphics.
Instead we get the dual core(which isn't bad) with a ssd that is even soldered onto the board making data recovery much harder. While the USB C ports are nice it is a joke that it doesn't have at least one or two standard usb 3 ports.
It isn't just the notebooks either. Look at the desktops. A lot of people don't want an imac and would rather have something they could plug their own monitors into. You have the option of a very outdated and over priced mac pro and the crap mac mini. Whats really bad is I have the late 2012 mini(the last with the quad core i7) and I want to replace it. My option is to go with a dual core and thats it. Seriously when is the last time anyone had a dual core desktop? Other than the low end(and a thousand dollar mini is not low end) pretty much everyone has had a quad core since the i5s came out with many have the quad core core 2's. I want to replace my mini but it will not be with another apple. They just don't have anything that is an option for me. Hell the mini hasn't been updated in what like 2 years?
I started to read into it but hell hotmail handles @hotmail.com and @msn.com so you need to type in what domain you are using. Other then that the newer interface for hotmail has gotten a lot better, just not as good as gmails.
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I agree with you. I don't want to carry around adapters for everything with a notebook. I also want something upgradable. This is something apple doesn't believe in. Virtually every notebook I've ever owned has been upgraded in some way over its life. It has gotten a memory or hard drive upgrade at some point in its life. Many have had batteries replaced(or a second one added in place of the optical drive). I had the last of the non retina macbooks which was upgraded to a ssd and to 16 gigs of ram. It had normal usb ports, a better power adapter(I think the magsafe is better than usb c) and Ethernet which I need. The battery wasn't easy to replace but at least it wasn't glued in. It would be nice to see a 13 inch notebook with the mobile quad core processor or better than intel graphics. Instead we get the dual core(which isn't bad) with a ssd that is even soldered onto the board making data recovery much harder. While the USB C ports are nice it is a joke that it doesn't have at least one or two standard usb 3 ports. It isn't just the notebooks either. Look at the desktops. A lot of people don't want an imac and would rather have something they could plug their own monitors into. You have the option of a very outdated and over priced mac pro and the crap mac mini. Whats really bad is I have the late 2012 mini(the last with the quad core i7) and I want to replace it. My option is to go with a dual core and thats it. Seriously when is the last time anyone had a dual core desktop? Other than the low end(and a thousand dollar mini is not low end) pretty much everyone has had a quad core since the i5s came out with many have the quad core core 2's. I want to replace my mini but it will not be with another apple. They just don't have anything that is an option for me. Hell the mini hasn't been updated in what like 2 years?
I started to read into it but hell hotmail handles @hotmail.com and @msn.com so you need to type in what domain you are using. Other then that the newer interface for hotmail has gotten a lot better, just not as good as gmails.