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Precisely, you need to use an adapter and you're already down a significant % of ports just plugging in a monitor. The ports in lots of laptop models are a joke and it's baffling that more people aren't laughing.
No, it's not an adapter. It's literally just a cable with two different ends.
Unless you consider an ordinary USB-A to USB-B (or mini B or micro B) to be an "adapter," too.
Is this a joke? That's literally the definition of an adapter.
Talking about the first part, of course. Adapting from usb- a to b is not adapting anything other than the physical connector. It's not the same as usb-c to hdmi or dp, for example.
Neither is the DisplayPort cables I'm talking about, where one end is just USB-C, but the signal actually transmitted through the USB-C connector and the cable itself is the HBR/UHBR transmission mode of any other DisplayPort cable (whatever the combination of the two ends physical connectors, between full DisplayPort, mini DisplayPort, or USB-C). It's not "adapted" because the data signals aren't converted in any way.
So it's as much an "adapter" as a DP cable that is a mini one one side and a full size on the other.
Technically, yes. However, show me a monitor that comes with a dp to usb-c cable. Included cables are 99% the same connector on botj ends. That means that you'd need to buy extra cables (or a hub) for all of you non usb-c ports/devices.
Which is unnecessary and also precisely my point.
Well, the last two monitors I bought didn't come with any signal cables at all, probably because the manufacturers don't need to presume whether the consumer prefers HDMI or DP, or whether the other side is full size, mini-DP/mini-HDMI, or USB-C alt mode. Just right there, that's 5 possibilities, each about as common as the others.
Well, that sucks. Mine came with an hdmi, a displayport cable ans a usb-a to usb-b 3.0 cable for the monitor's hub (it has an integrated kvm). To me it makes 100% sense to include at least 1 cable for each type of input in the monitor. If you're fine with getting short-changed by manufacturers then good for you, I guess.