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Mouse, headset, keyboard, gamepad, bluetooth receiver, USB sticks, and yes a phone charger. I have no intention of replacing any of these things until they bre

by MLR 9y ago

Mouse, headset, keyboard, gamepad, bluetooth receiver, USB sticks, and yes a phone charger. I have no intention of replacing any of these things until they break, that could be a long, long time.

wooter 9y ago
on desktop, i definitely feel you.
krrrh 9y ago
I picked up a 2-pack of USB-A/USB-C adaptors on Amazon for $10. I keep them in my bag, it hasn't been a problem. If you're plugging in more than two things at a time then you'd probably benefit from a hub anyway.
astrodust 9y ago
This is exactly the same things people were saying when USB 1.0 arrived, yet somehow people managed to switch.
- ashark 9y ago
  I'm pretty sure I didn't retire the last of my ps/2, serial, and parallel port equipment until about 2010. Gameport and AT probably went out around '05-'07—until then USB saw very little use and if I'd had to pick all-USB or no-USB, I'd have chosen the latter. My ~3-4yr old unremarkable desktop motherboard still has several legacy ports. I've made no special effort to resist USB, I just haven't retired equipment if it's still useful. USB came out it 1996. Peripherals stick around a long time.
  - melling 9y ago
    A bit misleading. Apple was the first major manufacturer to adopt USB in 1998. It took a good 5 years before PC's started adopting them. The move to USB-C is happening much faster. http://www.tomsguide.com/us/why-your-next-phone-or-laptop-should-have-usb-c,news-23100.html http://www.tomsguide.com/us/why-your-next-phone-or-laptop-sh... You'll soon need adapters to use those peripherals for laptops and Surface type devices.
    - astrodust 9y ago
      The day when I don't have to squint to tell the difference between the various flavours of Micro/Mini USB cannot come too soon.
  - astrodust 9y ago
    Serial and parallel devices died off pretty quickly though the ports lived on for various reasons. PS/2 keyboard and mice endured a good while longer. I've only seen the joystick port appear on sound cards, which themselves are pretty much dead, and the AT connector was all but extinct by the mid 1990s. New motherboards seem to fall into two camps: Legacy ports of all flavours, or ridiculous numbers of USB 3.0 ports. I saw one recently with 12 USB3.0 connectors on the back.
- lmm 9y ago
  Doesn't mean those people were wrong at the time. I was still using a serial port until 2012, still using a PS/2 keyboard until 2014. So I was right not to buy a USB-only PC in 2010, even though I've now switched to one.

by MLR 9y ago

Mouse, headset, keyboard, gamepad, bluetooth receiver, USB sticks, and yes a phone charger. I have no intention of replacing any of these things until they break, that could be a long, long time.

wooter 9y ago

on desktop, i definitely feel you.

krrrh 9y ago

I picked up a 2-pack of USB-A/USB-C adaptors on Amazon for $10. I keep them in my bag, it hasn't been a problem. If you're plugging in more than two things at a time then you'd probably benefit from a hub anyway.

astrodust 9y ago

This is exactly the same things people were saying when USB 1.0 arrived, yet somehow people managed to switch.

ashark 9y ago
I'm pretty sure I didn't retire the last of my ps/2, serial, and parallel port equipment until about 2010. Gameport and AT probably went out around '05-'07—until then USB saw very little use and if I'd had to pick all-USB or no-USB, I'd have chosen the latter. My ~3-4yr old unremarkable desktop motherboard still has several legacy ports. I've made no special effort to resist USB, I just haven't retired equipment if it's still useful. USB came out it 1996. Peripherals stick around a long time.
- melling 9y ago
  A bit misleading. Apple was the first major manufacturer to adopt USB in 1998. It took a good 5 years before PC's started adopting them. The move to USB-C is happening much faster. http://www.tomsguide.com/us/why-your-next-phone-or-laptop-should-have-usb-c,news-23100.html http://www.tomsguide.com/us/why-your-next-phone-or-laptop-sh... You'll soon need adapters to use those peripherals for laptops and Surface type devices.
  - astrodust 9y ago
    The day when I don't have to squint to tell the difference between the various flavours of Micro/Mini USB cannot come too soon.
- astrodust 9y ago
  Serial and parallel devices died off pretty quickly though the ports lived on for various reasons. PS/2 keyboard and mice endured a good while longer. I've only seen the joystick port appear on sound cards, which themselves are pretty much dead, and the AT connector was all but extinct by the mid 1990s. New motherboards seem to fall into two camps: Legacy ports of all flavours, or ridiculous numbers of USB 3.0 ports. I saw one recently with 12 USB3.0 connectors on the back.
lmm 9y ago
Doesn't mean those people were wrong at the time. I was still using a serial port until 2012, still using a PS/2 keyboard until 2014. So I was right not to buy a USB-only PC in 2010, even though I've now switched to one.