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All the other brands went along (slrpnk.net)
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[–] 8 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Power, HDMI, a few USBs, and headphones, all you'll ever likely need.

There's no doubt a dongle for anything else.

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  • [–] -4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Unless you want a desk setup. I have 2 monitors, kb, mouse, external dac, usb extension for thumbdrives, ethernet, usb soundcard for my mic and a kvm. That's dp, hdmi, 6 usb-a, ethernet and I still sometimes plug-in 1-3 devices to charge them.

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  • [+] -8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It's not about it being practical. It's about if it's actually doable or not and how well it would work. Having the native ports will always be better that using a hub/dock.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Strongly disagree. I use a laptop with a thunderbolt dock. Being able to plug in a single cable to provide power, connect my monitor, all of my input devices, Ethernet, and anything else in a single cable is awesome. If I had to plug 10 things in manually it would be quite cumbersome. I disconnect the laptop daily as I bring it between work and home, as well as use it, well, as a portable laptop.

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  • [–] -5 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Kudos to you.

    What you could do now is step out of your bubble and consider that other people have different use cases and might need or prefer to have more native ports.

    You literally lose nothing by having more connectivity options.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Except the device inevitably ends up bigger and chunkier.

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  • [–] -4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I don't see how that's so terrible. It would slightly phisically bigger (if that) but it wouldn't weight more and you wouldn't need to carry around a hub.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Of course it will weigh more, those ports and the boards to drive them weigh something.

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  • [–] -4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If you're worried about 50-100gr then you should hit the gym my friend.

    Also, that hub you'd have to carry around weighs more than just having the ports on the laptop.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If I'm carrying my laptop around the house, I'm carrying just the laptop, not any peripherals, whereas the dongle is in the laptop bag or on my desk.

    And I quite like being able to carry my laptop around with one hand.

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  • [–] -4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Congrats for you. However, if you consider that other people use their computer in a different way, would it really be that bad if your computer were imperceptibly heavier so that everyone could use use it how they prefer?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah, because plugging in one thing is way harder than plugging in six.

    This is a classic use case for a laptop dock.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That's a very lazy, short-sighted and first world problem way of looking at this issue.

    Why would having the option of using either a hub or plugging things on separately be worse than only being able to use a hub?

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It sounds like you need a desktop computer or a docking station.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Like I already said to another user: No. There are more than a few use cases that require a mobile set up for demos for example but that you’d also want to use in a desk setting. For example, architects or sw dev.

    Why are you making an effort to justify getting shafted by corporations?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    In this situation a hub is still better. You can pack all the stuff away plugged into the hub for easier set up. If your plugging that all into your laptop, you’ll need to plug it all back in again when you move.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago

    You're still missing the forest for the trees.

    There's no real reason why you'd have to choose having a few ports + a hub or tons of ports + the option of using a hub.

    If you prefer to "consolidate" your devices to a single poinf of failure on an external device then by all means, go ahead. I just think that it's pretty crappy that options are being artificially limited and users of all people are making excuses for it.

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