> I have four USB-C ports on my laptop and I need six.
I have four USB ports on my laptop and I need three. Unfortunately two are C and all my cables are A.
I really wouldn't mind if USB-C just went away. I've got a single device with a C plug (which came with an A to C charging cable, of course) and some other brand new charging cables won't charge it if I don't hold the cable pushed in manually. Not sure if the cables are bad or the hole. I also find it harder to plug in than micro (maybe because there's no narrow point on the plug which you can put in the middle of the hole and then move it to the edge to automatically align it perfectly) and hate the metal on metal sound/feeling this gives. The plug seems to be badly designed compared to the other USB ports (never had this issue, from A to B to mini to micro to micro B) and very often has incompatibilities where you're just guessing whether a display is going to work at all.
And then there's the ports problem. I've got a number of old cheap USB hubs laying around, like every techie I guess, but C hubs? Well... So this can now all go in the trash. We should stop this madness and come up with a better plug rather than a worse one, if we need to change all hardware anyway we might as well do it right the first time.
I have four USB ports on my laptop and I need three. Unfortunately two are C and all my cables are A.
I really wouldn't mind if USB-C just went away. I've got a single device with a C plug (which came with an A to C charging cable, of course) and some other brand new charging cables won't charge it if I don't hold the cable pushed in manually. Not sure if the cables are bad or the hole. I also find it harder to plug in than micro (maybe because there's no narrow point on the plug which you can put in the middle of the hole and then move it to the edge to automatically align it perfectly) and hate the metal on metal sound/feeling this gives. The plug seems to be badly designed compared to the other USB ports (never had this issue, from A to B to mini to micro to micro B) and very often has incompatibilities where you're just guessing whether a display is going to work at all.
And then there's the ports problem. I've got a number of old cheap USB hubs laying around, like every techie I guess, but C hubs? Well... So this can now all go in the trash. We should stop this madness and come up with a better plug rather than a worse one, if we need to change all hardware anyway we might as well do it right the first time.