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Why aren’t motherboards mostly USB-C by now?
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this post was submitted on 19 Nov 2023
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Am I throwing away all my mice, keyboards, DAC, digital pens, and other peripherals just so I can have a connector with more bandwidth than I'll ever need? Nah.
Am I buying them or adapters all over again just so I can be compatible with a new universal standard that I don't need? Double nah.
KVM switches, or breakout hubs that these devices plug into, then a single USB c device goes to the computer is the most logical avenue for a migration. But this will take a long time. Most people don't even have that kind of luxury.
On the other side of that, I’m already stuck throwing away all my Lightning cables and chargers, and ideally want to change only once. Why is it so hard to jump right to C for everything?
sure, but some people are already in a position where they already have only USB-C (me). I have adapters for the USB-A ports and it sucks. Just let me choose to get rid of the old shit that I don't need please
If you had multiple USB-C ports, you’d have the option of switching whoever you needed to replace something. No one ever said you had to throw everything out and start over
But we're not at the point of debating whether users should replace all of their devices. If motherboards with a single USB-C are so common, we're actually at a place where we're expecting users to buy all their new peripherals to be USB-A as well.