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Personally, I would prefer the option for 23 dongles (most of which I will never use, or buy) to a multitude of ports on my laptop (most of which I will never u
by Fezzik 9y ago
Personally, I would prefer the option for 23 dongles (most of which I will never use, or buy) to a multitude of ports on my laptop (most of which I will never use). The first seems like it provides me options, the second seems like it adds unnecessary failure points and openings to a delicate machine.
- GuB-42 9y agoYou can think of extra ports as failure points but you can also think of them as redundancy. Having a single port to connect everything causes a lot of wear on a single point of failure.
- photojosh 9y agoThat's why there are 4 USB-C/TB3 ports on the new MacBook Pros (2 on the cheapest one). The new iMac only has 2 USB-C/TB3 ports, but also retains all the legacy ones. So the only issue is with the 12" MacBook and its single USB-C port. Yep, that's a point of failure, but for it's intended users it's alright. On previous laptops you'd be screwed if you lost your AC adapter port anyway.