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Originally Posted by Alex_Go
I can appreciate the value of USB-C, however in many instances, everything else was phased out too quickly; no transition period whatsoever. I have a macbook pro that has only 2 USB-C ports; didn't think too much of it when I got it. The thing is, working from home now, the computer needs to be plugged in to power, i have an external display, what about a mouse and keyboard, I would like to hook it up directly to the router, but halas, no ethernet port.
Because 1 port can do it all doesn't mean that i only need 2 ports... it's a little like when apple removed the headphone jack from their phones, suddenly you couldn't listen to music when charging your phone without a little dongle. (i know, bluetooth and all. no need to tell me)
Then again, they do it cause they can. I complain about it but i have a phone without a headphone jack and a computer with only 2 usb-c ports.
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One of those two ports can literally do all of what you want with a $30 adapter. Apple hasn't put an ethernet port on a laptop since 2012, so either way you'd be stuck using a dongle for ethernet even if they carried on as they did with 2015 models. You needed a dongle to connect a lot of macbooks to various displays over the years too, and since the most USB A ports Apple has ever put on a non-17" laptop is 2, a wired mouse and keyboard would keep you from using anything else without a hub. It's a shame Apple doesn't throw a decent adapter in the box, but the ports are way more flexible than what they had before.
There's also plenty of PC laptops that have transitioned slowly and it's not uncommon to find ones with USB C and A.