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USB-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 device
by crote 3y ago
USB-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.