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Four Thunderbolt 3 ports that support USB-C. Any one of the four ports can be a charging port. /win Hopefully, this will disrupt the rest of the industry. The
by sandGorgon 10y ago
Four Thunderbolt 3 ports that support USB-C. Any one of the four ports can be a charging port.
/win
Hopefully, this will disrupt the rest of the industry. The XPS 13 is a brilliant machine (IMHO better than the Mac) but why did they not use the USB-C for charging is beyond me.
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- raesene6 10y agoFor me it would've been a win if they'd also included some other ports for backwards compatibility. Having only USB-C ports means that pretty much every user will have to have a set of dongles for things like USB2/3, HDMI, Display port etc, which doesn't seem like it's an ideal approach.
- sandGorgon 10y agoas the iPhone 7 keynote had mentioned.. its about courage. And in case of type-c, most new products (and charging cables) are moving towards a single standard. Its well worth the temporary pain I'd say ;)
- raesene6 10y agoit'll be years before the legacy peripherals are gone, would it have hurt Apple too much to include a USB3? So all the users of the product get years of inconvenience and expense for "courage" ... that's a word you could use, probably not the one I'd go for.
- hajile 10y agoUSB-C doesn't seem like a great replacement for their current solution though. I really like not having someone ruin my ports or having my computer fly off the table.
- mixmastamyk 10y ago> why did they not use the USB-C for charging is beyond me. I believe it is able to be charged through usb-c but they provided the normal power adapter also.