Muirium wrote: Thunderbolt, ya old fuddyduddy! My 15 incher Pro has just the two USB ports and no built in Ethernet, either, but with a couple of Thunderbolt ports and Gigabit 802.11ac WiFi, I'm not complaining. Even the MacBook Pros are too thin for that RJ45 nonsense. Hell, it was the thickest port on my PowerBook!
i guess you can use thunderbolt but i don't want to have to carry around another connector just to plug into ethernet, its one more thing i have to carry with me when running around the building testing stuff and balancing on ladders to get to coms cabs. on the 2009 ish macbook pros i agree the screen is too low res but for me its the only option ( this is what i have in work still trying to work out what i want for home)
what you want is a macbook pro air or whatever with a decent high res screen decent amount of ram an SSD and legacy ports like ethernet and firewire.
unfortunately thats not so easy to find if only the 2009 model had a high res screen
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