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…

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…

  • Dkarma@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    8 months ago

    This is about cost. The standard USB ports are far cheaper and they probably already have a billion of them on hand. Plus all the board layouts already use standard USB for their layouts. Also you’re not really getting any advantage from the USB c size wise or performance wise.

    Further more now you’d have to make USB c to whatever form cables and make customers buy these new cables.

    If u had to choose between 2 computers and 1 made u buy completely new cables for every peripheral which would u buy?

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      billion of them on hand

      Been thinking that for a long time! For example, I can imagine Chinese warehouses jammed with micro USB connectors. Want to build a low-cost widget? Meh, save some pennies per unit and put a micro on there.