4 controversial laptop trends that should never have made it mainstream

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37 minutes ago, 1610ftw said:

 

I mean just sell a chip that goes into a socket like with AMD and Intel desktop CPUs.

 

Obviously this isn't going to happen in desktops but it would be a perfect solution for laptops to widen choices for the users and drastically reduce SKUs for the manufacturers

I don't think socketed gpus work like that. They are much more complex. They are one board made for different phases and vrms. Unless I'm understanding this wrong.

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7 hours ago, Reaversword said:

C'mon!, only shipments to the States!. This is the third one I see with shipments only the States. What a nightmare...

 

Aww man, that's a bummer. I didn't see that.

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I have to say I miss having an RJ45 Ethernet jack on so many laptops now.

 

I know dongles work, they're fine, they're just... dongles.  A cludge IMO.  The issue with thinness was solved long ago with those ethernet jacks in thin laptops, the bottom of the port being a spring loaded flap that accomodated the relatively large RJ45 connector clip.

 

I've never seen a machine so thin (at its thickest point, usually towards the rear) that it could not use one of these spring loaded jacks that we used to get but I guess there just isn't the demand for ethernet there once was since the opportunity to stop including them seems to have been jumped on across the 'ultrabook' segment.

 

[1610ftw]

On 2/2/2023 at 6:12 PM, pickled-egg said:

I have to say I miss having an RJ45 Ethernet jack on so many laptops now.

 

I know dongles work, they're fine, they're just... dongles.  A cludge IMO.  The issue with thinness was solved long ago with those ethernet jacks in thin laptops, the bottom of the port being a spring loaded flap that accomodated the relatively large RJ45 connector clip.

 

I've never seen a machine so thin (at its thickest point, usually towards the rear) that it could not use one of these spring loaded jacks that we used to get but I guess there just isn't the demand for ethernet there once was since the opportunity to stop including them seems to have been jumped on across the 'ultrabook' segment.

 

 

If a laptop can call itself DTR then it should have space for an ethernet jack as then it will not be so thing that the jack is an issue.

Personally I have zero interest in any network connector that does not allow for at least 2.5G and I hate those flaps. I guess one could argue that they offer some kind of protection from dust but that is being too kind imo as I never had an issue with dust in normal ethernet ports.

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The biggest trend I wish would go away is the move to 2 USB - C ports and that's it. I purposely purchased my system because it had the ports I need, which seem to be going away.  Meaning I have to carry a USB C dock, a card reader, a HDMI hub, etc to do the same I can do with my current system...Counter intuitive imo.