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Re:The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've used by makeitdouble on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @08:45PM (#28611879)
Yes. Transition periods are always painful in that respect, worsened this time as a ton of “business” line windows laptops still have a HDMI port, same for Dell’s linux offering for instance.

When the first full USB-C Macs went out they definitely were the odd ones out in the company, and even now there’s still that split between run of the mill windows laptops and macs. Adaptors are more common, but it’s still not great.

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Re:The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've used by lostmsu on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @11:03PM (#28612706)
> worsened this time as a ton of “business” line windows laptops still have a HDMI port, same for Dell’s linux offering for instance

This should not matter as long as they also have a fully functional USB-C (which I'd guess they do).

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Re:The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've used by makeitdouble on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @01:57AM (#28613463)
It plays more on the "why don't you just ... ?" question that raises when you ask for adapters being standard in every room.

It reminds me of asking to include decaffeinated pods in our recurring coffee orders for the espresso machine. The person had no opinion on coffee, but wasn't convinced they needed to accommodate for the minority that was concerned.

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Re:The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've used by oneplane on Thursday September 23, 2021 @04:45AM (#28626694)
Luckily, we could always make it worse; there were times where full-sized ports were thought of standard yet we had PCs and Macs with mini-versions that were specific to the manufacturer (like mini-composite, AV-jacks, mini-VGA, mini-DVI).
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