Not Lenovo, my ThinkPad P1 has lots of nice ports
this post was submitted on 24 Nov 2024
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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
Get a Framework
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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
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.
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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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I believe that the topmost (M1?) MacBook still has a headphone Jack on the other (right-hand) side.
PS: by no means am I an apple fanboy, but I inherited an old Retina MacBook Pro that I installed Linux on and now use as my daily driver. It still holds up extremely well considering it's 11 years old. The only ports it's really missing is an RJ45 and (nowadays) USB-C.
I believe post intel macs can't run linux. Practically useless
Just one port to rule them all
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?
A lot of people give presentations or connect their laptop to a TV, I don't think taking out the HDMI port would go down well at all.
I’m pretty happy with a usb-c port multiplier doing all the work. Who wants to carry around all those accessories?
- When I want to be portable, all I need is my laptop.
- when I sit at my desk, one connection gets me power, monitor, Ethernet, keyboard, mouse, headphones, and lots of empty ports
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This pic leaves out the latest generation of MacBook that brings back some of those ports.
I guess OP would rather generate outrage upvotes, rather than spread the truth.
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I'm on the other side wishing peripherals would catch up and all become USB-C already. I'm tired of USB-A.
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And look how much thinner. A large part of that is the need for physical ports which although they may loom small on the outside, also take up space inside for the boards that convert signals. Now those conversions happen in the dongles if needed.
The real problem is that USB didn't implement a hub standard so most hubs have had to use old hub standards and just have a single USB-C connector and the rest USB-A, hdmi, etc. There haven't been many purely USB-C to USB-C hubs to allow for connecting lots of USB-C devices to a single port and usually they end up losing features or splitting bandwidth instead of sharing the full bandwidth.
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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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