potustheplant

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[–] potustheplant 0 points 8 months ago

A couple more ports wouldn't make your laptop "chonky".

[–] potustheplant -4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Congrats for you. However, if you consider that other people use their computer in a different way, would it really be that bad if your computer were imperceptibly heavier so that everyone could use use it how they prefer?

[–] potustheplant 0 points 8 months ago

Well, that sucks. Mine came with an hdmi, a displayport cable ans a usb-a to usb-b 3.0 cable for the monitor's hub (it has an integrated kvm). To me it makes 100% sense to include at least 1 cable for each type of input in the monitor. If you're fine with getting short-changed by manufacturers then good for you, I guess.

[–] potustheplant 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Technically, yes. However, show me a monitor that comes with a dp to usb-c cable. Included cables are 99% the same connector on botj ends. That means that you'd need to buy extra cables (or a hub) for all of you non usb-c ports/devices.

Which is unnecessary and also precisely my point.

[–] potustheplant -4 points 8 months ago (4 children)

If you're worried about 50-100gr then you should hit the gym my friend.

Also, that hub you'd have to carry around weighs more than just having the ports on the laptop.

[–] potustheplant 0 points 8 months ago

Straight from the integrated nic is not something common but here's an example.

However, my point was that more ports means that you have more bandwidth. If you plug in a 10gbe adapter to one tb3 port, you're añready using up 25% of your bandwidth and you could no longer plug in 2 high resolution monitors to that same port for example. Not to mention that I don't think there are hubs with 10gbe (they're adapters exclusively for ethernet). So that means that you plug in 1 adapter and you already lose like half of youe available ports.

I don't know why you keep coming up with excuses for being upcharged. You're giving me strong Stockholm Syndrome vibes.

[–] potustheplant -1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

That's a very lazy, short-sighted and first world problem way of looking at this issue.

Why would having the option of using either a hub or plugging things on separately be worse than only being able to use a hub?

[–] potustheplant -4 points 8 months ago (6 children)

I don't see how that's so terrible. It would slightly phisically bigger (if that) but it wouldn't weight more and you wouldn't need to carry around a hub.

[–] potustheplant 0 points 8 months ago

4k120 panels weren't even available in 2017 afaik. But you could do dual 4k120 with one hdmi 2.1 and 1 displayport 1.4 so just need 2 video outputs from your laptop (which used to be pretty common).

Please note that we're having this discussion in 2024 and I'm talkimg about use cases in 2024. I don't really see the point in talking about what you would theoretically do 6 years ago with panels that weren't even available.

[–] potustheplant 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

Is this a joke? That's literally the definition of an adapter.

Talking about the first part, of course. Adapting from usb- a to b is not adapting anything other than the physical connector. It's not the same as usb-c to hdmi or dp, for example.

[–] potustheplant 1 points 8 months ago

You don't need to explain why it's expensive but you do need to explain why it's suddenly necessary instead lf an option.

[–] potustheplant 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Common according to who? Also, do you think that's a coincidence? It'd be like saying that user "chose" to use primarily tws earphones instead of cabled ones. Manufacturers just removed the option and forced people to use rheir devices the way they wanted to.

Regarding ethernet, please show me an inexpensive dock with 10gbe. You also don't need to be a network engineer to take advantage of those speeds. For example, you could be editing video directly from a NAS.

You have a pretty selfish viewpoint. Why would it be so bad to have more connectivity options? If you don't want to use them, don't.

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