Apple's Innovative Ethernet Port Location: The Power Brick
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A high-quality product photograph displaying a white, square Apple power adapter against a clean white background. The iconic Apple logo is subtly visible on the top surface. The adapter has a braided power cable extending from one side. On another side, a power cable and a standard RJ45 Ethernet network cable are plugged in, side-by-side. This image showcases the power brick for the 2021 Apple iMac, which integrates the Ethernet port directly into the adapter. This design decision, made to keep the iMac computer itself as thin as possible, is a source of humor and debate among tech professionals. For experienced engineers, it represents a peak example of Apple's 'form over function' design philosophy, where aesthetic minimalism leads to unconventional and potentially inconvenient hardware configurations. It's a physical manifestation of the 'dongle life' culture, where essential ports are moved off the main device, a move often seen as prioritizing looks over practicality
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Apple's new power brick is the ultimate full-stack solution: it handles Layer 1 (Physical), Layer 2 (Data Link), and Layer 0 (the power outlet)
Apple’s “one-Port-to-rule-them-all” design is basically microservices for hardware - every missing interface spawns a $29 sidecar, and my desk now scales more dongles than our K8s cluster does pods
Remember when 'adapter pattern' was just a software design concept? Now it's a $79 hardware requirement for connecting your $3000 laptop to literally anything that existed before 2016
This MagSafe adapter represents Apple's brilliant strategy: create such elegant hardware that developers willingly maintain a museum-quality collection of incompatible chargers spanning three architectural generations, each deprecated precisely when you've finally memorized which MacBook it belongs to. It's the physical manifestation of technical debt - except instead of refactoring legacy code, you're untangling cables in airport lounges while your battery hits 2% during a production incident
Apple charger: Gets hotter than a prod outage during git rebase, but never pages you at 3AM
Apple dongles: nothing says modern architecture like replacing RJ45 and 3.5mm with an API gateway - and a shiny new single point of failure
Wi‑Fi prefers partition tolerance; incident bridges demand consistency - so we buy it back with a glossy RJ45 ‘SLO compliance kit.’
What the point. There was a discussion, they removed it. Comment deleted
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confusion 100 Comment deleted
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I haven't deleted any discussion. I doubt that admin did that. Comment deleted
I've asked why there is so much hype about those shitty laptops, and now this message is gone Comment deleted
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Yep. Maybe there was another post, I don't remember. Either way message is gone. Weird Comment deleted
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you dont need any ports, just suck capitalizm dick Comment deleted
who needs ports if you can have bluetooth. Comment deleted
I fuck with the power adapter with ethernet port. All USB-C is kinda annoying though for sure. Least there's a headphone jack 😁 Comment deleted