Giver of skulls

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Cake day: June 6th, 1923

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  • I have a laptop with both USB C and USB a and HDMI. The SD card slot is only full SD, unfortunately, but I did add a terabyte M.2 slot to the inside because it only came with 512GB, so it’s not like I’m lacking any space.

    These ports are very useful when I don’t carry my dock with me. Also very useful for connecting multiple screens, as USB-C doesn’t have that much bandwidth.

    Though, from what I can tell the MacBook M1 models don’t have the hardware capabilities to run multiple screens without falling back to hacks like DisplayLink that will eat up your CPU like crazy, so I suppose the screen issue probably won’t affect you too much; Apple had some weird design restrictions in their earlier M series chips that means you can’t get multiple DisplayPort streams out.

    Docks are neat, and there’s a reason they’ve been in use by businesses since the 90s, but you can have docks and ports on the laptop itself.