[bombcar]

This is going to be a primary complaint people have (even if it's not terribly important) - hopefully they have some circuitry that warns you if you're plugging something into the wrong port (e.g. a USB 3 device into USB 2 at slow speeds).

[happyopossum]

> This is going to be a primary complaint people have

No. Most people never plug in anything to their USB ports where they'd notice a speed difference. Definitely not people picking up a $600 MacBook for school or casual web browsing.

I'd bet 90% of folks never do anything other than charge through these ports...

[bombcar]

I don't think people will have many complaints about this thing, but I do think this will be one of the primary (even though it's basically a non-complaint).

It will definitely be used to justify spending $300-1500 more for a better laptop.

[happyopossum]

What do you think Neo users are going to plug in where they’d actually notice the USB speed differences?

[fragmede]

The same things Macbook pro users plug in where they'd see the USB speed differences. Just because someone isn't as privileged as to be able to afford a MacBook Pro instead of a Neo doesn't mean they don't have the same dreams and desires.

[bombcar]

Monitors, mainly (as if you plug it in the "wrong" one it doesn't work).

Followed by the IT-nerd of the family always complaining to them.

Again, I think it's a minor nit realistically, but people are going to harp on it.

[Qub3d]

For monitors at least, if you plug in to the wrong port you will get a GUI prompt advising you to use the other one [1]:

> while the ports aren’t labeled, if you plug an external display into the “wrong” port, you’ll get an on-screen notification suggesting you plug it into the other port.

[1]: https://daringfireball.net/2026/03/599_not_a_piece_of_junk_m...

[alpaca128]

I hope they added (or will add) that feature to other Macs too, on mine I had to try out different ports and check the settings to find the one which can go beyond 60Hz.