• JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    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?

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      1 day ago

      Funny you say this. I’ve been screaming at my usb c to mini display port adapter for the last hour or so. getting the idisplay or what they are called to work on my work laptop is just agony, because the adapter is so old and doesn‘t work properly anymore and the thing doesn’t offer any other connection methods…

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      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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      1 day ago

      because people kept asking for them back! i never use those ports though, and would really really love to have a full size USB port instead of HDMI i would never ever use. so many accessories still have usb-a adapters only

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      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.

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          13 hours ago

          I recently bought a refurbished laptop, and a large part of the reason I got it was for presentations, HDMI was a must have feature for me.

          I imagine any enterprise laptop would be similar, if you can’t hook it up to the projector, why bother?

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            12 hours ago

            Well, if you use such legacy style of connection to projector, I may agree, if it was not that easy to upgrade the cable to have a c to hdmi adapter mounted all the time.

            I connect wireless to my projectors, like, everywhere.

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              2 hours ago

              Homie, the non profit club we’re renting a room from isn’t going to buy a new projector just because I think HDMI is beneath my dignity.

              Projectors have a long lifespan, and don’t tend to be replaced until they actually fail.

              Besides, HDMI can transfer up to 48 gigabit/sec, so it’s actually faster than anything but the very latest standard of USB.

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      1 day ago

      MagSafe™ is still there.

      depends on the laptop. macbook air is the costco best seller proletariat mac, and as of a year ago when I bought mine, it just has 2 usb-c on one side and an audio jack on the other. USB-c power is a deep set connection not magsafe. I miss magsafe.