Will all laptops lose USB-A ports eventually?
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Will all laptops lose USB-A ports eventually?
Will all laptops lose USB-A ports eventually?
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Definitely. I think they'll still be common for a long time in every other application due to their simplicity and ubiquity, but where thinner devices make sales, Type-A will phase out probably before or around 2030.
Only after usb a sticks stop being made
Yes, and not soon enough.
It's a bit of a magic circle.
Manufacturers keep putting USB-A ports on their laptops to support legacy and cheaper devices.
usb peripheral makers use the cheapest and most familiar connector they can get away with, which is usb-A.
It's up to laptop manufacturers to pull the plug.
USB-C has a license, is USB A cheaper to produce for manufacturers? Also, are there usb c sticks?
Not true, they'll include a hub dongle for compatibility and that's it. By 2030, USB-A will be perceived as external DVD-drives today. Like "ew, boomer, get with the times already".
Of course, adapters will be plenty, I order USB microB to C in bulk because they're small mofos and constantly get lost. There's a few C to microB, for those times when C cables will be prevalent.
i hope not, chunky ports are the best
>will inferior tech go extinct?
what do you think?
Yes.
I hope so
YOU will use dongles and YOU will like it.
This unironically. don´t need stuff like hdmi or 5 usb ports while commuting. and when i come home i attach one cable to my laptop and have everything connected instantly
i´ll trade that any day for a thinner and lighter laptop.
Imagine being a homosexual just for extra 200 gramm.
Imagine wanting useless dust collector holes instead of a paper thin laptop
>useless
I plug stuff there, moron. Enjoy your tiny usb-c port breaking from that gaybook dongle. It's probably non-replaceable too.
Never happened to me on my laptop.
On the other hand my port on my phone literally stopped working because I never used it. I only charge wireless and the port just couldn’t handle being useless
Okay, now that's moronic bait. Go away.
>not even lying
My charge port doesn’t work anymore. I only found out because I was at a friends house who doesn’t have Qi charging.
I charge wireless for almost three years now
>Enjoy your tiny usb-c port breaking from that gaybook dongle.
you guys are such losers holy shit.
bait
>thinner and lighter laptop.
ram
batteries
drive
>things I never upgraded/replaced in my life
Not even upgraded my desktop PCs.
>I’ll upgrade my RAM later
Is the biggest lie everyone told themselves
>>I’ll upgrade my RAM later
>Is the biggest lie everyone told themselves
I just added 8 GB more to my 2013 Clevo laptop.
My laptop was $50 and came with 4gb, now it has 16. But I'm the kind of person that drives a civic and has a porsche in the garage for 360 days a year.
I upgraded both the ram on my laptop and on my desktop. Sorry that im not a normie consumer like you
yeah, that's why i also have a workstation at home so I can upgrade parts every year. If I'm on the move, I laugh every time I see a laptop that isn't a mac. The only ones I respect are some Thinkpad users. Otherwise, lol@you.
Basically this. Its dumb as frick. Its an attempt to use a near universal standard to ironically replace a near universal standard.
Reminds me of M-lok/keymod rails on guns. Picatinny rails are a near universal standard for mounting shit then along comes the newer lighter M-lok a new near universal mounting standard...and the most popular M-lok shit is Picatinny rails, the gun version of a fricking dongle.
USB-C is the PC equivalent to M-lok. A middleman you put up with to plug in something with an actual supported standard. How about you just give me a few usable plugs to work with in the first place...
We know why. Because apple can save 15 cent worth of material by using a single usb-c plug.
Ah yes, plugging 6 different cables into my laptop is way more standardized than plugging one cable in to handle all those things at once.
>plug in USB-C cable to send video
>doesn't send video
>plug in USB-C headphones
>works in some machines but not others
>plug in USB-C fast charger
>doesn't fast charge some devices
>also adds latency
And the best part is that there's no way to know if devices or cables are compatible with each other. Nice universal standard.
If you're buying junk, it should be no surprise that it works like junk. The USB standard is not responsible for whether or not device makers write decent firmware. In the past, people would say "wow, this webcam is a piece of shit" and now, because you're a dumbass, you instead say "wow, USB sucks."
>>also adds latency
I don't play games on laptops because a dock adding latency is the least of the user experience issues with that.
And if you're talking about audio stuff, well my brother does audio production at home and uses a USB-C interface and hasn't complained about it at all.
>If you're buying junk, it should be no surprise that it works like junk. The USB standard is not responsible for whether or not device makers write decent firmware
USB "standard" makes everything about audio and video optional and doesn't specify a standard to follow, so any cable or connector may or may not be able to send audio or video and cables are incompatible with some devices and there's no way for costumers to know which ones or why. Same thing happens with fast charging.
In the real world users will still need to carry several cables with them and will find some devices that simply don't work with their cables for no apparent reason.
>I dont play games
Good for you. Added latency is an issue for audio recording, dipshit.
>there's no way for costumers to know which ones or why. Same thing happens with fast charging.
Lol, so my being able to figure this out has been a complete fluke according to you. All my shit works and I'm using all kinds of third party cables. Complicated specifications are different from your claim that shit just "doesn't work." If you wanted to talk about that, then talk about it. Don't just make shit up.
>Good for you. Added latency is an issue for audio recording, dipshit.
Given that you didn't read my post completely, I understand now why you have so many problems with USB-C cables.
Probably not, USB-A thumbsticks need to go out of style first
Counterpoint: 3.5mm jacks on phones.
I dunno how good of an example that is; they're a common fixture on lower-budget and midrange phones, even high-end phones tend to have them if they're not the big boys like Apple and Samsung. Flagships are TRYING to get rid of them and make you use wireless earbuds instead, and mostly just ignoring a massive outcry to keep them.
I'm a IQfyermin but I have to give credit where credit is due to Sony since they still keep jacks on their Xperia phones
God I hope so
Macbooks, ultrabooks aka homosexual books already lost them, but regular laptops wouldn't, same goes for RJ-45 port
How are you supposed to use a mouse on these laptops
>use a mouse
Trump lost, chud
>honest question
>moronic political bait reply
I sincerely hate you c**ts. You have somehow made IQfy even worse than it already was. I fricking hate you.
have sex incel
100 identical bot replies incoming. Fricking hell.
I completely agree, but I just ignore.
it's still fun as frick because you morons get triggered as frick over inane bullshit.
Bluetooth mice anon
yeah, get cancer to use mouse
how is more ports bad?
it's bad of your laptop isn't thin enough to cut your hands.
for now, usb c to usb a doongle
in the future we just hope mouses come as usb c directly
I got a crapbook pro from work. I just connect all my USB-A shit to my monitor, and connect my monitor to a USB-A to USB-C converter.
You might find Dell U2723QE interesting. It has an integrated USB-C hub, so it carries your display signal, data, ethernet, etc, also does PD for charging, and the hub has a display port out to connect another monitor. Also comes in 32". A set up like that is my endgame. Just need fricking Apple to support multimonitor on the Air and 13" Pro, the fricking wienersuckers.
Funny thing my crapbook, there is no way to change volume if you connect your headphones to the monitor. They outright disable the volume control and you need some third party trash instead.
they sound good on paper, but at work we have some dell monitors, c2422he or some shit like that, and they're dogshit
out the box, they drop sound, have to restart monitor to fix it for a little while, a firmware update seemed to fix the issue
volume controls on the built in soundbar straight up either get stuck and go to 0 or go to 100, have to restart the monitor to supposedly fix it, but on my monitor it just stopped working all together
randomly drops ethernet connection for a second, but for some users it makes them drop out of domain server and they have to sign out and sign in again to regain internet connection
>plug everything directly to a laptop
>just werks
Apple did so it can't be long for others to follow suit. Once they're fully TB/USB C it'll move quick there's dongles etc.
I sure love buying overpriced dongles just to be able to use my computer.
Yes. You will have to velcro tape a USB dock to the back of the lid if you want to plug in your old devices.
Eventually, maybe. Right now it's darn inconvenient though.
Eventually, USB 3.0 is still pretty good so I don't know why anyone who isn't looking to shoehorn their proprietary cables *cough Apple* would be eager to replace it.
>legacy hardware
All the laptops that matter have already dropped USB-A
Not putting things in the correct holes is homosexual's second nature.
>a universal hole that's present on everything
All USB users are inherently homosexuals
USB-C = Reddit
USB-A = IQfy
That’s all you need to know.
/thread
>IQfy = an antiquated port that's being rapidly phased out
what did he mean by this
>an antiquated port that's being rapidly phased out
literally no? All desktops will have it for a very long time. Game consoles too. Cheap electronics will still use usb-a and microusb. The latter should die already though.
>All desktops will have it for a very long time
lol
>Game consoles too
lmao
hopefully. USB A ports in laptops always seem to die and I'd rather just use a hub that can do USB and a bunch of other things too
Yeah like PS2 ports
Oh no what will we do?
>USB-C Ports and Cables can transfer and receive data, can transfer and receive a video signal, can transfer and receive audio (headphones), can provide power and charge dozens of devices like laptops, phones, headsets etc.
Im legit amazed that USB-A Ports and Cables havent been phased out as C can literally do everything they do and more. I understand some older legacy devices might still run on A, but at this point USB-C to USB-C connection would just seem like the smart switch to make.
Obviously HDMI, Display Port, Ethernet and 3.5mm are needed, but those are single use style cables whos function are sort of limited to a few functions.
We might be talking about a very distant eventuality.
In the same way that monitors and motherboards still had VGA ports for a considerably long time.
I have yet to buy a single device that comes with USB-C ports.
You must run a really old phone then.
probably, my current phone came with android 7.
I actually had a newer phone with USB-C but the digitizer stopped working and then water seeped into it when I was out running and it stopped working so I went back to the older phone.
what the frick are you doing with a usb-c plug that that's happening, that is a LOT of force applied to that connector
I haven't seen any broken plugs, but I have seen a bunch of broken ports in laptops at work.
Dell docks have these long ass connectors and very rigid cables so if you accidentally yank it a lot of force get put on the port.
I mean they took away the ethernet jack on a lot of laptops so anything is possible
No. just like nobody here will lose their vir/g/inity.
eventually they will, but as long as I can't get
>mouse
>HDD
>phone charger
>external screen
plugged directly to it without any adaptater or dongle I won't be getting a laptop with only USB-c
from the ones you posted, all except the mouse have usb-c natively, I haven't seen one yet, but I expect that there should be several usb-c mice on the market
also, people who buy 3 port laptops have never once in the past 10 years used a wired mouse
I have seen mouses with USB-C already (albeit like two or three models), but I have so far never seen a usb-c to usb-c cable for a phone, few HDDs have it by default and very few screens come with something else than HDMI or DP as cables
Yes there is options in every single one of them but it's far from a panacea
>have an external drive with a usb-c port
>connect it to laptop using a usb-c to usb-c cable
>doesn't work
>plug a usb-c hub to laptop
>plug drive into hub using usb-c to usb-a cable
>works
literally sitting 2 feet away from an external hdd that has the usb a connector at almost the same angle as your pic, still works though, but I've seen a fair share of crooked usb-a connectors in my life, no idea how people frick them up like that
I've yet to see an angled or broken usb-c, even braindead morons can't break it like they used to do with their micro usb connectors
can you finallly connect pcs via usb? I really hate that isn't possible.
maybe in like 10 years
Apple MacBooks. Because of that, everyone will soon follow.