• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    10 days ago

    I just wish they would give us more than two ports, one of them is the power port anyway so technically they’re only giving you one port, which I think is about three ports too few.

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      10 days ago

      It’s not like the power port is power only, or even only power or accessory. It can do both at the same time.

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        10 days ago

        It cannot do both at the same time. That is demonstrably untrue. It’s either a power port or it’s a data port and if it’s been a power port then it is by definition not a data port.

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          10 days ago

          I’m not sure why you think that’s untrue, but it is true. I literally have a dock that provides power to my laptop, as well as connecting it to my monitors, keyboard, mouse, etc. all over one USB type C cable.

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            10 days ago

            Because you’re using an external device to extend the capabilities of the port. It can’t do that without the dock, so now you have two things to carry around.

            If you look at the comments on this, there are two distinct camps of people who will never agree: those who expect their laptop to be a self-contained unit that doesn’t require anything that wasn’t packaged with it to meet common use cases (which requires more ports), and those who are okay with docks and dongles and adaptors.

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              9 days ago

              Because you’re using an external device to extend the capabilities of the port. It can’t do that without the dock, so now you have two things to carry around.

              Maybe that’s what the previous commenter meant, but they were bemoaning the number of ports, not dongles, etc. Even then, if you are using those ports, you are already carrying around extra accessories/dongles which might be replaced by the dock (or in my case, moving between stationary docks).

              If you look at the comments on this, there are two distinct camps of people who will never agree: those who expect their laptop to be a self-contained unit that doesn’t require anything that wasn’t packaged with it to meet common use cases (which requires more ports), and those who are okay with docks and dongles and adapters.

              Sure, and other commenters are pointing out that manufacturers are serving both groups.