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12" Thinkpad from a decade ago still beats any tablet except for just consumption of entertainment. Until a tablet has 3+ USB c/a ports I won't consider them s
by grapescheesee 5y ago
12" Thinkpad from a decade ago still beats any tablet except for just consumption of entertainment. Until a tablet has 3+ USB c/a ports I won't consider them serious devices. But I still need serial and NIC ports for my work so maybe I am an outlier.
- rektide 5y agoI wamt to agree, but i think your lone criteria is falsy. Ecen though I really think phones/tablets should have more ports!! Usb4 significantly changes the game & makes even one lone port (a sad, fake, stupid, artificial & senseless limitation) tennable. Being able to plug in one cable that is basically a mini external southbridge, an io expander, is good enough in most cases, especially when that includes significant compressed video capabilities & a 40gbps pipe.
- hulitu 5y ago> I want to agree, but i think your lone criteria is falsy. Even though I really think phones/tablets should have more ports!! It's useless when there is no SW that can use them. Also you keep a tablet in your hand. It will look like a lobster with a lot of peripherals attached.
- grapescheesee 5y agoI understand the technology has expanded to point where a single port can allow for full capability. It is still just not practical regardless of the specifications on paper. I still want discrete ports. VFIO-passthrough doesn't work on a single port adequately, low level VM setups fail. I still need to run DOS and 95 from disk or VM (another issue) often. The line from consumer to industrial PC's has just continued to grow, and it makes everything more difficult. Give me two different dedicated USB4 ports and I think I could make that work. Still looks like an octopus.