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For me the 2021 MacBook Pro is a single USB-A port away from perfect. I want to use my old but good printer/scanner/mouse/thumb drive/external hard drive/yubike
by rwaksmunski 5y ago
For me the 2021 MacBook Pro is a single USB-A port away from perfect. I want to use my old but good printer/scanner/mouse/thumb drive/external hard drive/yubikey without dongles.
- nazgulnarsil 5y agoA lot of dongle talk seems weird to me. A to C adapters are cheap. Buy a bunch and leave them on the things you regularly use. No dongle to track.
- kaladin-jasnah 5y agoIt's still way more convenient to have the USB-A port built-in, even if you have myriad USB-C dongles. I'm trialing switching away from an XPS13DE (Develoepr Edition) to some "cheap"-ish 600 dollar laptop from HP just because I literally cannot stand the fact that the XPS doesn't have USB-A ports. I notice the difference (my cheap laptop is so much nicer) since it's so much more convenient since a lot of things are still USB-A these days (eg. my Arduino uses a printer cable which is USB-A, my flash drives are USB-A, my HDMI capture dongle is USB-A, my cheap webcam is USB-A, et cetera). Even if I have myriad dongles, if I'm travelling away from home, I don't have to remember to bring those dongles with me anymore.
- dalyons 5y agototally agree. A sucks, C is a way better port. leave the $2 adapters on your old a cables if you have to. total non issue.