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Tell HN: Laptop Hardware Designers): Put USB-C on Top of Screen
I have several flagshit laptops from HPE, MAC, 76...
ALL of them suck at peripherals.
SUGGESTION:
PUT SOME GOD DAMN USB PORTS IN THE TOP EDGE BEZEL.
I have USB(c) SSDs that I often need to plug in... Put some USBC slots on the top-external edge of the screen bezel.
Allow a small external enclosure to be velcroed to the top of the machine... Have it connect via a short USBC cable to the top of the screen's plastic/whatever enclosure...
So, I have these SSD enclosures :
this "flagship" OMEN from HPE has ONE usbc port (which fails to provide adequate power)
I have two additional AOC screens that require USB
I have a logitec that has a dongle (WhyTF isnt the logitec dongle integrated yet)
I run out of side port when doing work... (screens, storage, mouse, USB key, whatever...
We need a USB-C based hub along the top bezel of an open laptop screen.
I velcro the devices to the back of my lid with velcro stickers.
I'd rather have my post and wires on the top of my lid, than a bundle of bullshit in my laptop bag that I have to fumble with everytime I need to setup and get working.
Shittiest industrial UX. Ill provide pics if desired...
But the problem is that one CAN have a really amazing 'battlestaion' style setup in a backpack for little cost...
but the core, the machine, is so lacking as the focus is on 'GAME PLAY' instead of actual real usability in multiple market UX scenarios...
YES I game... but thats the core screen.... but I dev, and art, and build, and learn, and share, and zoom and blah blah blah...
and even a $3,000 laptop cant meet the needs of having a portable worktop experience, because of the ports issue.
I VERY DISLIKE the power 90-degree plug for all laptops.
The entire bezel/lid of the monitor should have USBCs out all 3 edges. The power interface is so archaic it needs be retired, interchangable USB heads on cables should be standard. EVERY LAPTOP SHOULD BE ABLE TO RUN WHEN THE DANG BATTERY IS REMOVED and power is supplied.
- smoldesu 4y agoGood news! Apple now has no excuse, the notch on their new "Pro" laptops should be plenty large to house this essential USB-C IC that you've described.
- m3talsmith 4y agoI would NEVER want a setup like you are proposing. Those are awful ergonomic!
- samstave 4y agoIll show you my full setup once I have the opportunity to take an image of it later tonight. Trust me, its quite portable and desireable. (I havent owned or worked on a singular desktop machine for the better of a decade, but I want a wide workflow-capable scape.. but it all needs to fit in a backpack. and be light and portable enough to be a complete "digital go-bag" (I only have a singular power input: the power input to the laptop. Yet I have two USB AOC monitors. multiple SSDs so that I have two SSDs internal to my machine and several SSDs available externally, a USB mouse (logitech), and several cell phones powered by USB ports either by USB hub, or direct...) and the need to plug in a random USB object (key/drive/whatever) But also need HDMI and Rj45... and it all weighs like ~10 pounds and fits in a decent backpack with a camel-back water pouch as well.