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The desktop equivalent is "What happened to all my PCIe expansion slots?!"
(Note: processor PCIe lane count has gone up, used to be like 16 from CPU, 4 from chipset, since a GPU didn't need an x1x6 in terms of bandwidth - see SLI/crossfire. These days, it's just that many lanes go to M.2, with each using up to 4 lanes - vs having 6 SATA driven off the chooser)
Well do you sell me a docking station with that laptop?
Or are you going to let me get buy some adapter dongles?
How about more USB c ports?
I miss having a thousand different cables to keep track of /s
really, all we need is the companies to start packing those laptops with thunderbolt3 or equivalent USB-C (USB 4). I love the old ports, but they were unnecessary. I'd rather the industry finally takes on the open thunderbolt standard and we're all good to go. With 10 thunderbolt ports you have 10 HDMI, or 10 USB, or 10 Ethernet, or 10 headphone jacks, or 10 RJ45 or whatever you need + PCIe tunneling.
What is really unnecessary is to have the ability to transfer 20GB/s from your mouse or keyboard.
Assuming you have the adapter for each of them
Useless old school holes? I am glad they did.
but they didn't give you an array of 7 usb-c either (power, network, external screen, external harddrive, usb-drive 1, usb-drive 2, headset)
Never used more than 4 ports at the same time.. you did?
That is true, I do not miss the old ports, but I want it to be replaced by the same amount of new ports.
i think they mean having a lot of IO
You don’t have less I/O..
And there's the soldered RAM and storage, and glued-in or screwed-in battery...
As someone who daily drives a laptop for work and does field work on server facilities, finding a modern replacement that has both a RJ45 port and square USB (USB-A?) ports available on both sides, has been a pain in the hassle.
And I'm not even crying over the loss of VGA any longer. That one I can live without.
Recommend framework
Or just a little dongle with both of these ports which can be plugged in on any usb-c on any side?
🤷🏻you are even more free these days without even realising, I never saw any laptop at any age having more than one ethernet.
Thinkpad is still the answer. But i dislike that they started to solder in at least one RAM and took away the 2.5" bay.
I'm no Apple fanboy (never owned a product of theirs and never will) but to be fair, those two USB-C ports can do everything the old, removed ports can do and more. The real crime here is not putting enough of them on the laptop.
Edit: The only port I'll lament the removal of is the headphone jack. USB-C headphones are rare, adapters get lost, and bluetooth headphones compress the audio and have input lag. Everything else can go, though, and won't be missed. (Okay fine ethernet can stay too.)
But my existing mice, keyboards, monitors, printers, and more don't use those ports.
So now people get to carry around an external hub just to plug in damn thumbdrive.
Or just permanently put a c to a adapter on the USB cable of the mouse?
