To make our laptops look clean and minimalistic, they made us buy a bunch of dongles and adapters.
Screw it, I'm buying a rugged laptop with the thickness of a desktop PC next
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USB-C does a lot of heavy lifting. Also, MagSafe™ is still there. A little surprised there is also a SD card slot. And a HDMI port. Not complaining about their inclusion, and I do use them regularly, but why did the dongle company give these to us?
because people kept asking for them back! i never use those ports though, and would really really love to have a full size USB port instead of HDMI i would never ever use. so many accessories still have usb-a adapters only
I dont know why this is controversial. I'm way more happy with 4x USB-C, than 5 unique ports, that will likely never be used on a regular basis, even when they were relevant
4 USBC would be cool. Most of these devices only have 2 or 3, minus 1 required for power delivery. If you have peripherals a hub is almost required.
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Just had a look at the prices, I can get 128 GB of RAM for the price that Apple charge for 16 GB of RAM.
I'm tempted to get 128 GB of RAM just because, I definitely don't need it.
I'm on the other side wishing peripherals would catch up and all become USB-C already. I'm tired of USB-A.
Like mice and webcams?
.... Yes, I do use Logitech products, why do you ask?
Rocking an MX Master 3. Best mouse I've ever used. It boggles my mind that the mouse can charge with USB-C but the receiver dongle is still USB-A.
A fan of buying new things, eh? I'm on the "keep it until it catches fire" side myself. Why buy new USBC headphones when my 20yo 1/4th>3.5mm Sennheiser HD555s work just fine for both my PC and my receiver connected to the turntable? The only reason is "because companies have decided to phase it out so I have to buy new headphones."
Well, jokes on them, needed a new laptop anyway and Framework has hot-swappable ports including a 3.5mm in addition to being highly fixable, so guess who got the sale over the "nooo you must have MY ports and buy a new one for a busted hinge" companies.
If it means I only need one charger/interface cable for my phone, tablet, laptop, keyboard, mouse, external drive, yes, I'm a fan. I already switched to wireless headphones when my cat chewed through my second or third pair of Etymotics (honestly forget by now). He forbids me from wearing anything with wires. Other than that, give me USB-C or give me death.
If I have to buy a new thing (assuming same quality) I'd go with USBC for sure, I just don't like buying new things unless I have to.
But, then again, I'm about to pop in Rodan on VHS and watch it on an LCD tv from 2007, and then maybe play some SMB2 on the NES, so I have a huge tolerance for older stuff.
Dude, those two little UBS-C ports do 50x what the ports on the bottom laptop could do
That's true and good, but I still want to be able to plug on an HDMI or Ethernet cable without a damn adapter.
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I’m glad I can plug in one port and have a dual display setup, all peripherals, speakers, ethernet, charging, etc connected at my desk in one go.
If I want to leave, unplug one thing and I’m good to go.
Outside the Apple world, a dock connector has been the norm way before USB C was invented.
I miss actual dock connectors. Cramming everything into a single USB-C connection has always been problematic for me. I have a lot of stuff.
My work laptop has a USB-C dock where I have Ethernet (1000mbps), three display port displays, mouse, keyboard, wireless headset dongle, and a dual head USB to displayport adapter.
That's a lot of bandwidth.
I frequently have little problems keeping everything working correctly.
Luckily, I don't push high bandwidth video though any display for work, so generally I don't see many bandwidth problems.
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