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Why aren’t motherboards mostly USB-C by now? (philip.greenspun.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Why aren’t motherboards mostly USB-C by now?::I’m beginning to think that the Windows PC that I built in 2015 is ready for retirement (though if Joe Biden can be president at 78, maybe this PC can last until 2029?). In looking at new des…

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nah, they usually advertise one USB-C port with full speed and that is the only one who gets it, even if it has 2, 3 or even 4x.

Btw, the DeskMini is the only full-spec PC i know of, which doesn't use additional chipsets for I/O. There may be a few more boards like this, dunno, but additional I/O chipsets are incredibly common.