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Nice! I personally would prefer the host port to be on the back and to have more type-C ports.
by acjohnson55 3y ago
Nice! I personally would prefer the host port to be on the back and to have more type-C ports.
- fnordpiglet 3y agoThat’s the problem. It doesn’t have type C ports. It’s got a buttload of A’s, but it’s 2024 not 1996. I’d rather buy USB-c to A adapters than be presented with a bank of vintage grunge band adapter ports.
- pdntspa 3y agoWhat? How many things run USB-C nowadays? USB A is still everywhere and being sold on cutting edge devices today. You say that as if the port never evolved or something.
- _zoltan_ 3y agoI have zero USB A devices and a LOT of USB C.
- pdntspa 3y agoI have a handful of USB C devices and a metric fuckton of USB A
- fnordpiglet 3y agoDo you have a fuckton of devices with replaceable cables that came with usb a terminals or are they all hard wired? If the former, you mean you have a fuckton of easily replaceable usb a cables. Don’t forget micro/mini usb doesn’t imply a usb a terminal. I swapped out my usb a terminal cables even for micro/mini devices.
- pdntspa 3y agoSome of them are. Maybe half. But cables are expensive and I object to being forced to replace all of those.
- fnordpiglet 3y agoA is a terminal plug. The switch from A to C you swap cables. They sell micro and mini cables with C terminals. A few devices come with A terminals hard wired still, occasional mice and keyboard. But most high end devices don’t have hard wired cables, they come with complementary cables you can easily swap out. I swapped to usb-c everywhere a few years ago without swapping my devices - just cables - and use zero adapters. I still have a few just in case but it’s increasingly unnecessary to listen to Nirvana while plugging my devices in.
- crote 3y agoUSB-C is slowly taking over the peripheral world. My mouse has it, my keyboard has it, my webcam has it, my external SSD has it. Literally the only USB-A devices I still have are 5-10 years old and barely get used - such as thumb drives. Even dirt-cheap Chinese knockoffs have USB-C these days. It has gotten to the point that not having USB-C is a red flag for peripheral manufacturers: it's a very minor engineering change and a single-digit cent price increase, so if a device claims to be cutting-edge and it has micro-USB something has gone wrong. So yeah, my setup currently involves a USB-A hub and several A-C cables. It would be nice if I could just get a proper USB-C hub, but those sadly don't really exist.
- laweijfmvo 3y agowish i could find the source, but apparently it’s not a simple engineering change. i went down that rabbit hole years ago trying to find a doc with many C ports.
- fnordpiglet 3y agoThe issues tend to be around bandwidth and power delivery. The caldigit thunderbolt 4 dock has 5 usb-c output ports, 2 are thunderbolt 4 and 3 are 3.2. Only the host t4 port is 98w, the rest are 20w, 15, or 7.5. It does however only support one display. If I needed 4 displays I would probably put this between my host and the four display device posted on here. I would however prefer to see a single dock that can both accommodate a modern port set and multiple monitors. https://www.caldigit.com/thunderbolt-station-4/ https://www.caldigit.com/thunderbolt-station-4/
- laweijfmvo 3y agoI found it: https://superuser.com/questions/1381139/why-cant-i-find-a-usb-c-hub-with-multiple-usb-c-ports https://superuser.com/questions/1381139/why-cant-i-find-a-us... Apparently this has changed with Thunderbolt 4.