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Equipment & Techniques => Computers & Peripherals => Topic started by: Joe Towner on January 31, 2017, 02:51:14 pm

Title: 2016 MBP 'base'
Post by: Joe Towner on January 31, 2017, 02:51:14 pm

http://blog.macsales.com/39345-owc-makes-macbooks-pro-again-with-game-changing-product

It's an external USB-C dock with drive sled, usb3 ports, gigabit ethernet, designed to attach to the bottom of our favorite laptop.

Title: Re: 2016 MBP 'base'
Post by: Hans Kruse on February 23, 2017, 06:06:10 am

Maybe a good option for some. I have transitioned pretty much to usb-c and bring a card reader for SD and CF cards and a usb-c to usb dongle with me which I had to do anyway. If I needed more SSD storage on the go I would go for the small Samsung T3 drives.

Title: Re: 2016 MBP 'base'
Post by: E.J. Peiker on February 26, 2017, 01:04:24 pm

Pretty cool solution.  they don't give actual weight and thickness increase specs.  It's cool that you can add 4TB of internal storage with it but it seems a base that size could have also handled an additional battery...

Title: Re: 2016 MBP 'base'
Post by: Hans Kruse on February 28, 2017, 12:33:51 pm

Quote from: E.J. Peiker on February 26, 2017, 01:04:24 pm

Pretty cool solution.  they don't give actual weight and thickness increase specs.  It's cool that you can add 4TB of internal storage with it but it seems a base that size could have also handled an additional battery...

Yes, but 4TB of SSD would be a quite steep price (although I did not see a price) and when would you really need this amount of SSD?