Re: Does your Macbook Pro have this?

Alan Baker wrote:
In article <DJ-dne7_aIoCY_vVnZ2dnUVZ_o7inZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
Edwin <thorne25@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

My $800 HP has a connection for the HP QuickDock. Everything,
including the power supply, plugs into the QuickDock and it plugs
into
the computer. One plug and you are all done.

Oops, I guess your MacBook Pro has no such thing.

Too bad.

You should have bought an HP.
Be prepared for a dozen posts telling you a dozen or more reasons why
you don't need a docking bay of any sort.

Steve
And a dozen more claiming that there are workarounds that you should
be using instead of a docking bay.
And some pointing to docking bays sold for Apple laptops that Tommy was
too stupid to look up before he hung out his ignorance for all to see.
Apple sells no laptop for $800 that includes a docking bay. Apple
sells
no
laptop for any price that includes a docking bay.

All you have for the Mac is an added $160 to $300 third party solution
which
may or may not work with mercurial Apple's ever-changing hardware.
LOL

You keep saying more and more ludicrous things, Edwin.
Ludicrous only to a moron such as yourself.
LOL
Tacit agreement

You buy a Mac laptop, you then buy a dock designed to work with that
laptop.
If you can find a third party making docks for your Mac laptop.
You mean, like here:

<http://www.bookendzdocks.com/>

...hmmm?
Have they got a model for every Mac laptop ever made? Are they going
to have one for any future changes made in Mac laptops? Hmmm?

Don't know. Show what models built so far they have missed...

No, you show that it's available for all Mac models, don't tell me to do
your work for you.

Can you get a Mac laptop for $800 that includes one of those docks in
its price Hmmm?

No. Show another laptop for that price that includes the dock and
doesn't just have the connector (which is all the OP said he got for
that money).

First show a dock for a Mac that is like the HP QuickDock. You know,
something with one connector, not the third party stuff you showed that
needs to plug into every connector on the Mac.

How does Apple changing its hardware affect your purchases?
How does Apple changing its hardware affect purchases made from a third
party? Do I really have to tell you?
The docks will either work or not work with the Mac you've got.
No joke? Does that mean you finally get how Apple changing its
hardware affects your purchases, blockhead?

No. When Apple changes its hardware, the hardware you own doesn't
magically change.

You really are a blockhead. When Apple changes its hardware, the stuff
third parties made doesn't magically change to match it. And that's
matching every connector on the Mac in it's physical placement, not just
its type. And that's if they even made a dock for your model of Mac
laptop in the first place.


What guarantee do you have that HP won't change their dock connector
with the next laptop the release, rendering the dock you bought useless.
Could you really be that stupid? The dock for your HP laptop comes
with it, and is made for it. The next HP laptop will come with its own
dock too. Moron.

Oh, and moron? That HP was only $800 WITH THE DOCK. Not a $300
separate third party purchase as with the Mac.

No, it wasn't. From the first post of this thread:

"My $800 HP has a connection for the HP QuickDock."

"Has a connection for the HP QuickDock", not "comes with an HP
QuickDock".

So buy it here:

http://www.getpartsonline.com/es631aa-no-adapter.html

for $60.

That makes it $860.

Show the same thing for the Mac at any price.

[snip]

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