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I got a lowly Acer E5-575G for $799 that came with discrete ethernet, vga and hdmi ports and Manjaro has been rock solid on it for a year. Why is it incredibly
by wayneftw 7y ago
I got a lowly Acer E5-575G for $799 that came with discrete ethernet, vga and hdmi ports and Manjaro has been rock solid on it for a year.
Why is it incredibly unlikely for Dell to do the same?
- DuskStar 7y agoThe laptop itself is thinner than an ethernet port if I'm reading the specs right. If not, it's very close.
- close04 7y agoLaptops become thinner and thinner. The XPS is 0.46" thick. Your laptop is 1.2" thick. That's a lot of extra height to put larger ports like Ethernet.
- wayneftw 7y agoThanks! I didn't realize that techies cared so much about how thin their laptop is. Maybe I'm an outlier because I'd rather have more ports and convenience than a thin laptop. In fact, I don't like very thin devices because I feel like the thinner they get, the harder they are to repair and the easier they are to break.
- close04 7y agoThe general audience for laptops is far wider than just techies. Techies might actually be the minority. Between this and the fact that many people will never see/need an Ethernet cable in their life it makes sense for manufacturers to compete with specifications that the average buyer craves: thin and light. They could have included one of those flip down Ethernet ports though [0][1], since I see there is plenty of space under the edges of the laptop to drop that flap. [0] https://memestatic1.fjcdn.com/comments/I+think+hp+did+it+pretty+well+this+is+the+_53e8b0b4da8822f68622eefa159e277a.jpg https://memestatic1.fjcdn.com/comments/I+think+hp+did+it+pre... [1] http://bcchardware.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=43511&g2_serialNumber=2 http://bcchardware.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.Downloa...