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[–] [email protected] 2 points 38 minutes ago (2 children)

Useless old school holes? I am glad they did.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 minutes ago

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)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 minutes ago

i think they mean having a lot of IO

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 7 hours ago

And there's the soldered RAM and storage, and glued-in or screwed-in battery...

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