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Why aren’t motherboards mostly USB-C by now?::I’m beginning to think that the Windows PC that I built in 2015 is ready for retirement (though if Joe Biden can be president at 78, maybe this PC can last until 2029?). In looking at new des…

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[-] Scribbd@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah that is true. But I was more or less portraying that customers gonna custom-er. And PCs will be RMA-ed for stupid reasons no matter what. And usb-a also had customers confused, sure c is worse. But don't make it out to be that a was so magnificent. SuperSpeed, QC, trying to plug the male printer side into the ethernet port, different grades of cables for different speeds, expecting a bump in speed because they bought a 'golden cable' while their pc and peripheral were on usb 2.1, all these things are also in usb a forms.

Because I had all those conversation. The man was aware, yes. But wasn't aware enough and too afraid to lose his precious data. (But wasn't willing to pay for extra drives or remote storage. But that is a different story.)

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