If you buy a 13" laptop you make concessions for on-device connectors, as you always have for ultra-portables. The solution is the same as it's always been, get a larger laptop, or use a connector hub. As for your Macbook Pro, that's Apple. Using the one company that's known for doing their own thing and obsoleting ports before every other company does as your case for USB-C having caused other ports disappear already isn't a convincing to me. For example, the touch bar version of the Macbook Pro 13" has four USB-C ports. Apple has made a decision to obsolete USB-A. I'm not surprised, for the reasons I gave before.
> If you buy a 13" laptop you make concessions for on-device connectors, as you always have for ultra-portables.
My old 10.1" has:
* 1 power connector
* 1 ethernet connector
* 1 VGA connector
* 3 USB ports
* 2 audio jacks
* 1 memory card slot
* 1 mysterious connector
Re:The impossible dream of USB-C
by semi-extrinsic on Sunday October 15, 2017 @04:19AM
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Apple is very happy to sell you a $$$$ phone/laptop and then $$ dongles to make it actually work with the other things in the world.
This is old, but still gold
... But they have already disappeared. The 13" Macbook Pro that I'm talking about just has those two USB-C ports and none of the others. If you are plugged in for power you just have one port.