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One of the tragedies of USB-C is how it can be anything from dumb charging only to one's capable of 40GB/s data transfer among everything else.
by RF_Savage 3y ago
One of the tragedies of USB-C is how it can be anything from dumb charging only to one's capable of 40GB/s data transfer among everything else.
- LoganDark 3y agoThis. People can get away with implementing really, really bad USB-C ports and you're just supposed to expect that no two USB-C ports are born equal.
- hgomersall 3y agoIt makes working out which hole to plug something in to rather tricky. Especially when the little lightning bolt or other graphics have rubbed off.
- lproven 3y agoSeconded. And even before then. I have an M1 Macbook Air which will only output video over one of its 2 USB-C ports, not the other. There is nothing visible on the case or in the OS to indicate this. I have had an Arm and an AMD Thinkpad which both have only dual USB-C, and both unpredictably switch between one or the other being bootable, with no discenable pattern.
- lloeki 3y ago> I have an M1 Macbook Air which will only output video over one of its 2 USB-C ports, not the other. Weird, ever since I had USB-C based Mac Mini or MacBook (two Intel, two M1) they could reliably output video on any of the two, three, or four ports (as long as I don't go past the limit). They're essentially symmetric on all features.
- jauntywundrkind 3y agoUSB4 mandates 40GBps. It mandates DisplayPort. These would be pretty helpful baselines to expect, reasons for consumers to want USB4: they know it will be fairly featureful. PCIe transport ("Thunderbolt") and Power Delivery are both optional though, I think.