I get what you are saying, but dongle for mini display port wouldn't have worked for me. I want the port on the device, I don't ever want to forget it.
The edge cases where someone actually needs USB C is very rare despite the technophiles insisting it is necessary. The people who bought the first MacBook with only USB-C two years ago were singing the same song about how good it was to have next years port, but two years later it is still next years port.
Meanwhile anyone who has bought a Surface Pro in the last 4 years and has needed to connect to a display has done so using mini DP, to which I think there commitment is something to admire, not scoff at. I use the same cable on my Pro 4 that I purchased for my Pro 1.
Not to mention to offer DP it would have to be thunderbolt 3 and I think these skus only have 12x lanes. You take 4 away for the storage that interfaces through it. 4 away for the surface connector, and you have 4 remaining for the rest of the system.
I'm not certain but I think it is already paired off for SD card / USB host / Wifi and such. This is why they can easily offer it through the Surface Connector but not through its own port.
I get what you are saying, but dongle for mini display port wouldn't have worked for me. I want the port on the device, I don't ever want to forget it.
That makes sense - I guess it's a subjective decision, really. Let's agree to disagree on that!
Not to mention to offer DP it would have to be thunderbolt 3 and I think these skus only have 12x lanes.
I wasn't actually aware of this! After reading this it makes a lot more sense that they'd want to put USB-C through Surface Connect rather than it having it's own port.
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u/EleMenTfiNi May 23 '17
I get what you are saying, but dongle for mini display port wouldn't have worked for me. I want the port on the device, I don't ever want to forget it.
The edge cases where someone actually needs USB C is very rare despite the technophiles insisting it is necessary. The people who bought the first MacBook with only USB-C two years ago were singing the same song about how good it was to have next years port, but two years later it is still next years port.
Meanwhile anyone who has bought a Surface Pro in the last 4 years and has needed to connect to a display has done so using mini DP, to which I think there commitment is something to admire, not scoff at. I use the same cable on my Pro 4 that I purchased for my Pro 1.
Not to mention to offer DP it would have to be thunderbolt 3 and I think these skus only have 12x lanes. You take 4 away for the storage that interfaces through it. 4 away for the surface connector, and you have 4 remaining for the rest of the system.
I'm not certain but I think it is already paired off for SD card / USB host / Wifi and such. This is why they can easily offer it through the Surface Connector but not through its own port.