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My wife, last week, a couple days after she gets a new Macbook Air to replace her old one that stopped working: "Wait... there are no USB ports on this thing?
by shantly 7y ago
My wife, last week, a couple days after she gets a new Macbook Air to replace her old one that stopped working:
"Wait... there are no USB ports on this thing? How the fuck am I supposed to plug anything in?! My flash drives, my camera, my microphone... anything? Seriously?"
Welcome to dongle life :-(
2019, still don't have a single thing in our house to plug into a USB-C port, except adapters. Probably reach the end of 2020 in a similar state. Just bought a new 4TB portable HD that's USB-A (3.0), because USB-C wouldn't be able to plug into anything but a new Macbook, without an adapter.
- asciident 7y agoI don't know about you, but my flash drives, camera, and microphone are all usb-c. It sounds like you have either not upgraded your devices in a while, or bought devices with out-of-date connectors. It's pretty easy to avoid out-of-date non- usb-c accessories these days.
- JCharante 7y agoI don't think I've ever seen a USB C flashdrive in my life
- shantly 7y agoUSB-A is only out of date for Apple, and if the actual connection is USB 2 or 3 (not, say, thunderbolt) there’s little reason to choose USB-C. Desktop? USB-A only. Raspberries Pi? USB-A. Older MacBook Pro? A. Every console for the last couple generations, except sort-of the Switch? A. They should have had a couple years of a transition model rather than going all-A to all-C at once.