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Yup, and it's glorious. My coworkers have the newer MBPs, and it's really nice having HDMI. They mostly still use USB-C, but they each use HDMI at least once/week (older TVs w/o airplay, for example). I'm upgrading soon, and I'm excited.
Excuse my smugness, but being excited for your premium laptop maker to bring back a feature that is standard basically everywhere (all of my four laptops have HDMI, and out of those, my two non-work ones also come with DisplayPort) is such an Apple thing
It's like these people claiming that you need that connectivity for a lot of work were right.
Yup, and that's why i don't buy Apple products for personal use. This is provided by work, and mostly because we don't want to deal with the stupid corporate image (we've essentially convinced them we "need" macOS for whatever reason).
If I had my choice, I'd request either a Framework or Thinkpad laptop, Framework because I can keep swap out the ports as needed, and Thinkpad because they come with enough ports, I love the Trackpoint, and the top mousepad buttons rock. But no, I have to deal with Apple's POS hardware, so forgive me if I take joy in the little things in life, like getting an HDMI port.
Ah, okay. I do have thinkpads for work, same at my previous employer, I'd say they're pretty forgettable, not sure I'd buy Lenovo for anything that needs to be particularly secure, just read the English wiki entry for Lenovo about security incidents, but I'd be more careful when procuring for work, especially in certain fields.
I use Linux exclusively with full disk encryption (and usually swap the NIC), so I'm not particularly worried about whatever nonsense Lenovo does with their bloatware. That doesn't cover everything and it's a big part of why I'm looking for alternatives since Lenovo is owned by a Chinese company, but it's good enough, and I honestly prefer the ergonomics over anything else.
For work, we use Docker for everything, so there's nothing actually tying us to macOS. But everyone else on the team uses macOS, so if I pushed for me to use Linux, it would be an uphill battle every time something went wrong for me, or if I make a change that doesn't work for the rest of the team. So I just use macOS, but bring as many of my Linux tools along with me as I can. I still hate macOS, but at least w/ my Linux tools, I don't have to interact with it all that much.
Their higher-end models seem of nice build quality at least, but that's something I just expect at a certain price point.
Linux isn't even an option at my current job, it's WSL if anything. And that on the development machines only. Office work machines are Win 10 without any privileges, which I'm fine with. Employer pays for the time I take longer for certain things. His choice.
Unfortunately, there aren't that many great European options, so buying somewhat domestic is hard.
If a job requires Windows, I'm not accepting the offer. Simple as. I'm okay w/ macOS provided I have full control, but I'm not using some locked-down Windows image. Screw that.
If I had a different specialisation, I'd probably care. But my job is mostly reading and writing documents, and they installed Miktex on my office machine, so I don't want to complain.
We do have formal security requirements to meet though, and I think in general locking down machines in your network is the correct choice. But it's probably not needed in every job
Yeah, I'm a software developer, and everything I write runs on Linux, so there's no reason to use Windows.