Re:An ode to Apple’s awful MacBook keyboard
by taway_1212 on Monday September 03, 2018 @08:11AM
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What's wrong with USB-C? Sounds like a cool idea in theory - you essentially don't need a docking station.
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Re:An ode to Apple’s awful MacBook keyboard
by opencl on Monday September 03, 2018 @09:55AM
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The entire problem is that you do need a docking station/dongles to plug in the 99% of peripherals that are not USB-C.
Having USB-C ports is great, having only USB-C ports is a constant annoyance.
And this is before getting into the absolute shitshow that is the cable situation. Lots of cables are USB2 only. There are passive and active TB3 cables. Active TB3 cables cannot support USB 3.1. There are 3A USB-PD cables and 5A USB-PD cables. Of course you can't tell any of this by looking at the cable, only by plugging things in and wondering why they don't work. And these are the problems with 100% spec-compliant cables before getting into all the companies that completely ignore the standard.
Re:An ode to Apple’s awful MacBook keyboard
by taway_1212 on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @03:46AM
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Fair enough. If I ever get a laptop with USB-C, I think I'd replace at least my monitors and keyboard mouse to USB-C devices, so that I can get the "docking station" effect. Sucks if you don't want to do that (ex. because you've just recently bought them) though.