Message from @Tervy
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and they don't think of giving them names to dictate if they can do video and thunderbolt or not
like actual consumer features
"So I got this USB4 cable but it doesnt do video out and charge at the same time"
"oh it's a USB4 gen 2x2 cable and not the USB 4 Gen 3x2 cable which is video out capable"
cue the boondocks clip of Grandad in the Mac store
i'd say 99% of users don't care about the difference between 20 gbps and 40 gbps
they care about the other features
2x2 and 3x2 says nothing about the speeds either
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I'm actually ok with this because it'll make it easier in the future
Once USB4 is common place all people gonna care about is the number, USB3.2 slower than 4????
ez
it would have been less confusing with shit like having the first digit be the speed and second digit being the functions
>phasing out the type A connector
welcome to the "we have way too many people around this meeting table" decisions
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as somebody who worked selling phones when USBC was new this shit is a nightmare peope face every day
well Type C connector is better than type A in every way
I had to **do my job** and explain to people what they were buying it was awful
and you can fit in more type C ports in the place type A used to be
true
nevermind i meant Type B
Does type C get loose like Type A does?
oh
my brain flipped the cables
Shit
Type A is the one used on PC's, B for mobile devices, and C is "All in one" new one right
Type A is misc devices type B is heavy duty stuff and C is all in one
oh type b was printers and shit
I still have an RN4X, does the type C Port get loose on new devices like micro eventually did
Thunderbolt 3—upon which USB4 is based—supports PCIe 3.0 and DisplayPort 1.2 signaling, making it capable of driving 4K monitors at 60Hz, as well as external desktop-class GPUs that can be used to bolster the graphical capabilities of notebook PCs and small form factor devices like the Mac Mini. USB4 will also inherit the ability to deliver up to 100W of power.
pretty cool
in the future you could just buy an EGPU and plug it into a laptop using USB4
currently EGPUs work but they need more bandwith
External GPU's is actually pretty cool, I'd rather dock a laptop then use one of those hilarious desktop part laptops
oh definitely
External GPUs will be far more common when we get USB4 around standardized
so it's not too expensive for manufacturers to implement it
Now speaking of naming fuck GPU's who decided laptop GPU's have the exact same names as desktop GPU's and there's secretly 2/3 different product lines with the same name like the RTX 2069 something Max Q, Super, TI, and Max P