John Siracusa

In other words, saying normally they expect to have one port.

It's a phone chip, so you have one port in the phone, right?

Just to get the second USB port at all, I think they probably had to add another USB controller somewhere to the board and wire it in, and that was a pain.

And so, yes, Apple did this themselves, but they're

Again, when the A18 Pro was made, I don't think there was any expectation that this ship would appear in a Mac.

It is ill-suited to be in a Mac based on the peripheral stuff.

And so it is disappointing.

I mean, come on, USB 2?

Like, what century is this?

It's ridiculous.

But would you rather only have one port?

I sure as hell wouldn't.

So...

There is the good port, the quote-unquote good port, which is, again, only USB 3 at 10 gigabits.

And then there is the horrendously slow port.

But it's still better to have two ports because there is no MagSafe.

These two ports are it.

You know, charge in one of them, connect a peripheral in another.

When the A19 or A20 or whatever powered version of the MacBook Neo comes out, I'll bet these changes are less bad, or I'm hoping in the future Apple says, okay, if this product is a hit...

We need to make chips that we know will work in this.