“I want anyone to know who is thinking of buying a MacBook Pro with the Retina display, that something’s missing,” Scott Kelby reports for Photoshop Insider.
“It doesn’t have a Security Slot, and for some people (like me) that’s a real problem (and one I’m now going to have to deal with somehow),” Kelby reports. “So, that’s it. A heads up, and here’s hoping that Apple adds them back in future models, and that someone comes up with as elegant a security option as Kensington did (who obviously teamed up with Apple on that slot). Hey, we can always dream.”
Kelby writes, “This isn’t just a problem for sports photographers — it’s for schools that have MacBook’s in their labs, and at work, and anywhere we need to have our laptops secured (Starbucks) and now we have to find some other solution (and I’m looking at a few), but I would dearly LOVE to hear why Apple decided NOT to include this tiny slot. While they’re at it, I’d love to know why in Mountain Lion Apple decided to do away with the menubar Display menu, which is another thing that makes me shake my head, but don’t get me started.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Something’s missing alright. So is somebody.
Well, maybe Apple now wants portable Mac users to buy something like this?
Regardless, such a solution seems quite a bit less elegant than a simple security slot.
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I’m getting bored with MDN’s Tim Cook bashing/revisionist history about Steve Jobs. All their “issues” with him are actually issues with Jobs or things that Jobs would have done no differently. The 4S was produced on Jobs’s watch because the only other option was to create a substandard iPhone 5 – do they really think that was better? A missing security slot on the new Retina Display pro – big deal, there are other options. Features gone in Mountain Lion? Well guess what – Lion removed Front Row and that was a very useful feature, and that happened on Steve’s watch as well. The lack of a major Mac Pro update is also traceable back to Steve’s era because these things take time in the pipeline. In fact, Tim Cook’s only arguable failing (if you’re not counting the lack of production of a rainbow-shitting unicorn, which some people seem to think would be the only acceptable proof that Tim Cook is good enough to take over from Steve Jobs) is the hiring of the guy from Dixons, who tried something that didn’t work and then (crucially) fixed it again rather than pushing on with it out of pig-headed hubris. You know, like Microsoft might. Or HP might. Or even Steve Jobs might if it’d have been his idea (G4 Cube, anyone? Ping? The chewing gum stick iPod shuffle? The fat boy iPod nano?). Get over yourselves – Jobs wasn’t as bomb-proof as your selective memories are now suggesting, and Apple is in safe hands with Cook. In fact. his biggest threat is whining uberfans who won’t be satisfied until there’s a Steve Jobs clone (and I mean a literal clone) sat in the CEO’s chair.
As someone pointed out, the Kensington physical requirements exceed the size of the device.
One other thing is that, in thinking about security, the issue has shifted somewhat at least in my organization. The real issue is data not the physical device. With full disk encryption, the data is safe.
Personally, I’ve been carrying Mac laptops since 1992 and never used the security slot.
“Somebody is missing”
Steve Jobs is gone forever. Those of us who have been Apple supporters should continue to back Apple and whoever is leading the company. So far the company is doing beautifully! I bought a retina macbook pro and it is the best computer I have ever purchased with lots of innovations. We should give Tim Cook some breathing room .
The security socket on one’s computer was the best way to ruin the casing of said laptop. Not to mention, a useless item anyway. Those cables are not a challenge to cut. They added little security.
It’s been missing from the MacBook Air since AT LEAST 2010 (if not from its inception).
Old news.
yes, clicksafe or microsaver can still be used to lock a retina macbook pro