If your scripts use a desktop Mac has a mode of connecting to external display, Various peripherals and doubt in buying the MacBook, do not despair. USB-C progressive and universal format, so the appearance of a docking station for the new MacBook is not far off. These gadgets will add ports to your laptop missing when it is necessary, in the rest of the time you will have the easiest and mobile MacBook for work on the go.
Prior to the announcement of MacBook was at least one rumor about what Apple is going to sell the USB-C docking station as an accessory for the MacBook. During the presentation it was only on the brand adapter that adds one port for charging, video output (HDMI or VGA) and a conventional USB connector type A.
Apple rarely promoted to their laptop docking station for desktop use, but this is understandable, because the company has various types of computers for all occasions, each of which covers a niche. If you think carefully, you can remember PowerBook Duo Dock forBut the promotion of this type of accessories for laptops is clearly not typical for Apple.
You can not say about the third-party manufacturers, who are happy to provide accessories, simplifying the use of Apple laptops in the "desktop" mode and provides a fast connection periphery. For several years I have used with your PowerBook dock BookEndz, actually plastic box with a bunch of plugs sticking out of it, which is ideal sootvetsvovalo location of the connectors on the laptop. It is connected to the PowerBook is not as elegant as the Duo Dock, but it is still much easier to connect peripherals and saves time.
Later to work in the office, I used Apple Thunderbolt Display, which can also be considered a kind of dock every morning I go to his MacBook Air and charge the Thunderbolt cable, automatically obtaining an external 27-inch display, gigabit network, external drive, a FireWire and USB-microphone. Even now, Thunderbolt Display is the perfect "dock" for MacBook Air or MacBook Pro, but unfortunately not for the new Macbook.
When I attended the creation of a home office, I wanted to get a similar experience with. Not wanting to spend money on the Thunderbolt Display, I bought a 24-inch Dell monitor and docking station Belkin Thunderbolt Express 2.
Doc is not cheap and costs $ 299, but provides quite an incredible degree of flexibility. Judge for yourself, your whole bunch of cables from all devices and peripherals you connect to the dock, but to the MacBook is only one-the Thunderbolt cable. The beauty!
One port on the MacBook is not a problem if you insert it into the dock cable that is connected to a large number of different devices. At home I have a Belkin dock connected to a gigabit network, several USB-devices, speakers, and external monitor. I put on the Air the stand and I get a full desktop computer.
accessories manufacturers are silent running and anyone of them over the USB-C docking station is not yet known. However, there is no doubt that these devices have. If such accessories produced for the MacBook Air and Pro, then the new MacBook can be no question.
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