Comment by dinckel@lemmy.world on All the other brands went along

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.

It’s nuts. Framework marks up their RAM, and it’s still way cheaper through them than through Apple, and you can buy aftermarket RAM too.

My next personal laptop will probably be Framework, especially since nearly everything else is going soldered RAM.

I do have 4, but except for extremely rare circumstances I only ever use one. A single USBC cable handles an external display, power, plus extra accessories like a keyboard via a built-in hub in the monitor. If you wanted to that monitor also supports daisy chaining another monitor without having to plug it into the laptop.

Obviously it’s quite a subjective thing, but if you happen to use tools from after USBC was a thing and your laptop routine is pretty established, I think you can get a ton of simplicity and function out of those ports.

That’s great for a docking station setup. But if all you need is docking stations at home and the office, just get a mini PC/ mac mini.

Laptops are supposed to be useful without a docking station, and if all you have is USB-C you can’t even read most thumb drives.

Well I also use my laptop in isolation away from those docked environments, so it is useful.

To be honest I’m not sure I’ve plugged in a USB drive in the last year, likely much longer. But I do keep a tiny A to C adapter in my bag, so if need be I can easily plug a traditional A connector in. If I were to buy a usb drive today I’d get a USB C or hybrid one.

Having to carry dongles and hubs to connect to devices severely impacts the convenience of a laptop.

I agree, but I really don’t do that. What I do remember 10 years back is carrying around a bunch of different cables for each of the ports I had, which is practically the same issue.

You like a little baggy of dongles and adapters?

All you need is a travel dongle with hdmi displayport some USB-A and ethernet (If you really need that, tho) for me laptop screen on the go is good enough, have no usb-A devices (and those who have are upgraded to C using permanent usb legacy adapter mounted on the cable) and on the go, wifi/hotspot is good enough.

At home, ethernet and USB A are connected through the usb C 4k monitor.

I’ve got an external screen that connects with a USB-C-to-C cable to that thunderbolt port.

Finding a cable supporting that is harder though, it needs both Power Delivery(PD) as DisplayPort(DP), and most cables don’t support the bandwidth for DP.

How about this:

4x USB-C (can’t see why I’d need 4 though, 3 is plenty)
2x USB-A
HDMI
RJ-45
headphone jack
microsd

That should still fit just fine on the chassis if they didn’t do the stupid curve thing, and it certainly wouldn’t make it thicker.

There is still a headphone jack, it’s on the other side.

Yup, I have a 2019 Macbook Pro, so I’m well aware. But it doesn’t have any of the other stuff I mentioned. The new Macbook Pros has most of it, but still no RJ-45.

Especially the HDMI and jack are just silly to drop.

I would prefer 10x USB C than that shit, lol

RJ45 and HMDI in particular are way thicker than usb-c

True, yet they would totally fit, and do fit on the newer Macbook Pros. And many professional class laptops have RJ45 w/o making it any thicker (port flips down, so it doesn’t need to be full-height always).

RJ45 connectors are commonly a folding down connector. HDMI can be replaced with a micro HDMI and is often replaced with additional USBC to utilize display port alt mode.

I honestly wish every company would just stop using USB A. So many companies still including it are preventing device manufacturers from going all in on C.

What’s wrong with having the option?

The more its held onto on devices, the more things will just keep using it. If we had ditched USB A on new devices (desktop motherboards included) companies would start actually releasing USB C peripherals and other devices. Think mouse dongles, keyboards, speakers, etc.

I honestly don’t really see that as a problem. If customers really want USB-C, they’ll buy USB-C peripherals and USB-A will drop off naturally. But if USB-A peripherals are more attractive (i.e. cheaper), then I see no problem with both continuing to exist. Let the people decide, don’t force USB-C down their throats…

If customers really want USB-C, they’ll buy USB-C peripherals and USB-A will drop off naturally.

How? If there are basically no USB-C peripherals, how are people going to buy them to show their support? One side needs to start first so the other will get on board, otherwise people will just stick to USB-A because there is no other real option. Apple is trying, and they are usually the trendsetters in the tech space, but it doesn’t seem like the rest of the market is jumping on board like the usually do.

The people can’t decide if there isn’t anything to decide on.

Going forward, this is the way. However, there is a massive amount of usba legacy hardware like mouse/keyboard dangles, headsets, hubs, chargers, and other less universally available products. Just think about how long PS2 and VGA ports existed on montherboards.

They already come with what you ask, minus usb-a and honestly fuck usb-a

2024 16" macbook pro: https://support.apple.com/en-ca/121554

Charging and Expansion
SDXC card slot
HDMI port
3.5 mm headphone jack
MagSafe 3 port
Three Thunderbolt 5 (USB-C) ports with support for:
- Charging
- DisplayPort
- Thunderbolt 5 (up to 120Gb/s)
- Thunderbolt 4 (up to 40Gb/s)
- USB 4 (up to 40Gb/s)

I like USB-A
RJ45 is important to me
the only USB-C I use are my hub, work monitor, and power adapter

USB-A and RJ45 have far more value to me than a third USB-C. I’ve only ever used 2x USB-C at the same time, whereas my USB-C hub is crammed with non-USB-C ports.

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