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Why aren’t motherboards mostly USB-C by now? (philip.greenspun.com)

submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology

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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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[–] gornius 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The difference between different generations of USB-A are speeds. If user notices differences in speeds, they are way more likely to know the difference between USB versions.

The differences between USB-C and USB-A are capabilities. USB-C is already confusing for many people. My boss (IT Project Manager) thought he could use USB-C to connect his monitor, while he couldn't because his laptop doesn't support DisplayPort over USB-C.

There is already a huge mess with USB-C capabilities. Some of them are just glorified USB-A ports, some of them have DisplayPort over USB-C, some of them are Thunderbolt (with different versions or course), some of them are QC (with different versions - once again).

I can just imagine the confusion from users, who expect all of the USB-C ports in the motherboard to work the same way, but then only one or two ports from 8 total have DisplayPort capabilities.

"If it doesn't fit it means it's not supposed to go here" is a great way to tell the user what capabilities the port has.

[–] [email protected] 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.)