My wife and I both have to travel. This is my favorite travel computer. At home, or when working all day on location, I prefer my MBP retina 15. At the airport, in a plane, or next to bed I like the 12 inch MB.<p>There is a lot of speculation over the single port. There are a couple of USB C dongles. One is USB-C to regular USB. The other is USB-C to USB, USB-C, and HDMI. The later allows charging the MB while using USB and connecting a monitor. I keep a little zip up with my Apple USB-C charger and the larger dongle. I leave the charger and dongle at home if getting coffee with my MB. On the road I carry the little zip up bag with charger and dongle. Even carrying both is lighter than any other laptop charger I have. (The USB-C charger is only a bit bigger than an iPad charger.)
I see this laptop as a "more productive iPad". I have a main MacBook Pro 15" that is permanently attached to two monitors, and a bunch of other devices. Having a secondary laptop that I can use on the go or in bed, without detaching the existing one, would be nice. So far I've been using my iPad for that purpose, but the 12" MacBook would provide me with a significantly nicer experience. At least for any task that isn't content consumption. For my use case, the single USB port is not an issue (as much as I otherwise dislike laptops with only a couple of USB ports).
They don't learn anymore, do they?<p>The single port was a horrible failure. I'm sure their shareholders enjoyed the thought of every single MacBook owner buying one of those multi-adapter cables, but that was a mistake my family only needs to make once.<p>This makes me sad. I love Apple. I love their products. I loved working there, a lot. But stories like these make me think they are calcifying into what Microsoft was in the 00s.<p>Once things like Magic Leap are mainstream, there is zero guarantee Apple will remain relevant at all.<p>EDIT: Since everyone is ripping on me for not considering every single possible use case, here's my response:<p>The problem is not that Apple made a lighter laptop with limited uses, it is that this laptop is crowding out better options for people - particularly employees who are assigned computers - who clearly need more. I see people all the time being assigned new MacBooks and who need the extra adapters, and those same people come back and complain that the adapters break! I don't get why companies buy them buy the bulk, unless apple is pushing some amazing deals.