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  • If you don’t need them they’re just more cost

    Yeah, tell me another joke. the cost is negligible. Literally from cents to a few dollars for the manufacturer.

    more holes where water/debris can get into the machine

    This literally never happened to me or anyone I know.

    more wrong holes to plug the charger into

    If you plug in your usb-c/barrel jack charger into an ethernet/hdmi/displayport input, you deserve to have a broken laptop xD

    If you do need them, then buy a machine that has them - there are plenty.

    Not really true, but ok. Keep on preaching for companies that screw over consumers :)





  • You misunderstood. They use those monitors when actually working in a stationary place with their desktop setup. However, it’s very common to then have to go to your client’s office to show them said work or discuss future steps. At which point having multiple port options comes in handy if you have to plug in to a tv, monitor or projector.

    You can’t seriously consider asking for hdmi and displayport on a laptop a “specific need”.







  • 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.




  • 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.




  • 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.