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I got a new MacBook Pro for work and generally I’m loving it. It’s a lot nicer than my old old personal MacBook. But I am totally starved for USB ports. The MBP has only 2 USB ports!!!! In today’s peripheral-heavy world that’s just brutal. C’mon Apple gimme some love!
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Hi! My name is Alex Miller and I live in St. Louis. I write code for a living and currently work for Revelytix on semantic web products.
In the past I worked for Terracotta, BEA Systems, and MetaMatrix. My main language for the last decade has been Java, although I’m interested in many different languages. I am the founder of the Lambda Lounge user group and the Strange Loop developer conference.
Catch me on Twitter as @puredanger.
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Alex,
Not sure which one you have, but mine has 3. 2 on the left, and 1 on the right. Not a whole lot more, but I don’t think I personally have ever needed more. And where would you put them? There are 2 firewire ports, power cable, headphone/mic jacks, network, and DVI.
Hey, I’ve had mine for about 7 months, and I love it. Best of luck with yours
– bab
I have a brand new MacBook Pro – has one USB on left and one on the right, plus all the stuff you mention. I picked up a USB hub at Target yesterday and I’m ok for now. I’ve currently got a printer, iPod, headset, mouse, and soon a keyboard to plug in, so 2 was just not cutting it. Actually, I just realized the keyboard has a couple ports on back which will be nice. The Dell I was working on before this had 4 ports I think, which seems more reasonable.
Brian,
Do you have a 17″ MacBook Pro? I do, and like yours mine has 2 on the left and 1 on the right. Alex must have a 15″, per the specs. Either way, I agree with you, Alex, that 2 USBs is too few.
For me, a USB hub offers a key advantage: far fewer things to unplug when I want to go mobile. My old Dell laptop had a docking station, which was very nice. The closest and cheapest thing to that is the USB hub.
Randall
Ah, that’s the difference. I’ve got a 15″. I can’t believe 17″ has only one more port. The double ports on the Dell are really nice but I guess they’re just a shade too tall to fit on the super thin MBPs.