The MagSafe cable that starts with USB-C on one end and terminates in the MagSafe plug on the other end has a woven covering, much like the cables for the 24-inch M1 iMac. The 16-inch Pro comes with a massive new 140-watt MagSafe 3 charger, while the 14-inch Pro has a 96-watt MagSafe 3 charger. All worked, some much faster than others. I tried it with a 65-watt Lenovo charger, a 39-watt Switch charger and an older 61-watt MacBook charger. You can still charge this new MacBook with almost any USB-C charger, by using one of the three USB-C ports. You're less likely to run across a USB-C-to-HDMI dongle by sheer luck. In a pinch, I can probably dig up an HDMI cable from somewhere, or steal one from a game console. People have older or legacy devices, like printers, projectors and displays, and they want to be able to plug into those immediately, with a cable common enough that you might luck out and find one buried in the back of a desk drawer. That's also why we had laptops with VGA ports for so many years after they should have vanished. It's great to be future-forward, but HDMI remains immensely useful, even if it's transitioning into being more of a legacy port.

HDMI is something people have been asking to get back.

The SD card slot similarly came and went over the years. But it disappeared a few years after that, when Apple moved toward USB-C starting with the 12-inch MacBook. It wasn't until the first Retina screen MacBook Pro, which I reviewed in 2012, that HDMI first made its way to a MacBook. The original Pro cost a similar $2,800 and included three USB 2.0 ports FireWire 400 and FireWire 800 ports an ExpressCard slot and a DVI port. I recall the very first MacBook Pro from 2006, which I reviewed as well. I'm as shocked as anyone by the return of not only these classic-but-useful ports, but also the long-dead MagSafe power connector. If everything comes back in style eventually, it must be time for HDMI ports and SD card slots to return. Thunderbolt USB-C x3, HDMI, SDXC card, MagSafe 3

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