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As long as there's at least one standard USB-A port, I'm OK with this. I can just replace my Thunderbolt cables and dongles.
by kylec 10y ago
As long as there's at least one standard USB-A port, I'm OK with this. I can just replace my Thunderbolt cables and dongles.
- rconti 10y agoI need USB-A so I can plug in my ethernet dongle! Otherwise it's dongles all the way down...
- kylec 10y agoNo doubt you'll be able to get a USB-C or Thunderbolt 3 ethernet adapter
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- laurentdc 10y agoUSB-C to USB-A dongle, then USB-A to Ethernet dongle. Or like the fanboys on the Apple subreddit have pointed out, "who the hell uses wires in 2016". Not sure if certain people are complete apologists or simply out of touch with the real world.
- cardiffspaceman 10y agoEight or nine years ago, I conceived a plan that I was going to have CAT-5 run through my house someday, once I found someone to do it. Here it is 2016, I have trade workers throughout my house doing a renovation and I won't bother. I'm not sure why I'm going to the trouble of bringing indoors the twisted pairs of the phone jacks so I can use POTS from every room. Everything I have, as a 57-yo fuddy-duddy, is wireless.
- dingaling 10y agoConversely, we're planning on rewiring a 1950s house and shielded Cat6 is definitely in the requirements. Once a family start using wireless devices, even on two channels ( one each on 2.5 and 5 GHz ) the throughput drops dramatically. On more than one occasion I've been found sitting on the stairs near the router with a cable plugged into my laptop...
- 6nf 10y agoSorry, no USB A ports on the new macbooks