<story><title>Macbook Pro frying USB peripherals</title><url>https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8223635</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lotyrin</author><text>Oof. What a minefield USB-C and Thunderbolt 3 seem to be, still.&lt;p&gt;My coworkers had a situation where a certain combination of chargers and hubs plus bad luck (intermittent issue) fried some devices. That really shouldn&amp;#x27;t be possible. I&amp;#x27;m quite happy to still have a mid-2015 MBP with its USB-A and MagSafe but it&amp;#x27;s only a matter of time before I get issued a machine without them (and probably no physical ESC key either)...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>horsawlarway</author><text>My experience with the new USB-C only macbook pro has been a complete and utter disaster.&lt;p&gt;I had one machine fail within the first month: all usb-c ports stopped responding.  You can&amp;#x27;t charge it, you can&amp;#x27;t reset the SMC because it requires the charger to be plugged in (through a usb-c port... which isn&amp;#x27;t working! hurrah!), you can&amp;#x27;t dump anything from it to external media.  Basically a paperweight. Returned to Apple.&lt;p&gt;The second machine is still up, but the &amp;quot;hub&amp;quot; that apple gives you the honor of paying 75 dollars for to get any subset of reasonable ports won&amp;#x27;t properly handle external displays and a usb-3.0 hub unless I plug them in in a very specific order.&lt;p&gt;I have to do that &lt;i&gt;every&lt;/i&gt; time I unplug the machine to go somewhere else. It won&amp;#x27;t accept the charger through the hub anymore, so I have to plug in multiple cords anyways.  It won&amp;#x27;t handle multiple displays through the hub, so I have to plug in 3 connections.&lt;p&gt;Not gonna lie, I was very excited by the usb-c push early on since it consolidates all my chargers to a single cable.&lt;p&gt;On my XPS it works fine.  There&amp;#x27;s only one port, but everything works as expected, it charges, it handles thunderbolt.&lt;p&gt;Apple screwed the pooch in a huge way with their latest macbook models. shittiest computer I&amp;#x27;ve used in a long time.&lt;p&gt;I genuinely believe that apple&amp;#x27;s implementation of USB-C in their products is just crappy, since I&amp;#x27;ve used other machines and docks without issue.&lt;p&gt;Throw on top that the battery life while running a VM on the thing is literally 1% drain per minute (I wish I was joking...) and I&amp;#x27;d recommend literally anything other than the new 15 inch touchbar macbooks.&lt;p&gt;They&amp;#x27;re shitty machines for developers. Honestly, they&amp;#x27;re shitty machines for anyone, but they&amp;#x27;re particularly painful for anyone trying to work on them.</text></comment>
<story><title>Macbook Pro frying USB peripherals</title><url>https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8223635</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lotyrin</author><text>Oof. What a minefield USB-C and Thunderbolt 3 seem to be, still.&lt;p&gt;My coworkers had a situation where a certain combination of chargers and hubs plus bad luck (intermittent issue) fried some devices. That really shouldn&amp;#x27;t be possible. I&amp;#x27;m quite happy to still have a mid-2015 MBP with its USB-A and MagSafe but it&amp;#x27;s only a matter of time before I get issued a machine without them (and probably no physical ESC key either)...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jimmy1</author><text>I never thought I would miss the ESC key so much. As a bonus I guess I learned how to remap keys in almost every tool I use.&lt;p&gt;:&amp;#x2F;</text></comment>