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7 points

Power, HDMI, a few USBs, and headphones, all you’ll ever likely need.

There’s no doubt a dongle for anything else.

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Cause I live toting a do gle around and risk breaking the laptop because of it.

I did enough of that in the 90’s, TYVM

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in the ’90s*

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2 points

Username checks out.

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Cause I live toting a do gle around and risk breaking the laptop because of it.

I did enough of that in the 90’s, TYVM

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in the ’90s*

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7 points

Yes, and it’s better to be downgrading USB-C ports with adapters than to be stuck adapting a USB-A port to USB-C or ethernet.

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5 points

SD card reader is nice to have if you fuck around with cameras and microphones.

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Yeah, that can stay too.

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Unless you want a desk setup. I have 2 monitors, kb, mouse, external dac, usb extension for thumbdrives, ethernet, usb soundcard for my mic and a kvm. That’s dp, hdmi, 6 usb-a, ethernet and I still sometimes plug-in 1-3 devices to charge them.

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With that many connections, using a dock or a monitor with thunderbolt seems more practical than having a ton of stuff plugged into your laptop.

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It’s not about it being practical. It’s about if it’s actually doable or not and how well it would work. Having the native ports will always be better that using a hub/dock.

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12 points

It sounds like you need a desktop computer or a docking station.

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That’s a use case for a laptop dock if ever there was one.

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Like I already said to another user: No. There are more than a few use cases that require a mobile set up for demos for example but that you’d also want to use in a desk setting. For example, architects or sw dev.

Why are you making an effort to justify getting shafted by corporations?

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