Why aren’t motherboards largely USB-C by now? – Philip Greenspun’s Weblog

I’m starting to assume that the Home windows PC that I in-built 2015 is prepared for retirement (although if Joe Biden may be president at 78, possibly this PC can final till 2029?). In taking a look at new desktop PCs and motherboards I’m struck by the paucity of USB-C ports (standardized in 2014). It seems as if 0 and 1 are the most typical variety of USB-C ports on a 2021 PC.

Wouldn’t it make extra sense for all the USB ports on a brand new PC to be USB-C after which use adapters for legacy elements?

From The Last Castle, describing occasions of 1921:

Not everybody was instantly obsessed with know-how’s advances. Simply months after Cornelia [Vanderbilt] celebrated “reaching her majority,” creator Willa Cather gave a speech through which she presciently waxed philosophical with reference to the phonograph. “We now have music by machines, we journey by machines,” she stated. “Quickly we will probably be having machines to do our considering.”

(Be aware that maturity and voting in these days got here at 21, not at 18!)

The good Willa Cather anticipated nice progress from the world’s nerds. What do we have now 100 years later? A Dell XPS desktop PC, “Engineered and designed with objective for final energy and expandability”, geared up with a mechanical arduous drive and a feeble 8 GB of RAM (is that even sufficient to run Home windows by itself?).

The machine has a single USB-C port and eleven legacy USB-A ports.

What if you wish to spend $5,000 on an Alienware gaming desktop from Dell? You get… a 2 TB mechanical arduous drive (additionally an SSD), a wholesome 128 GB of RAM, and two USB-C ports (plus a bunch of USB-A ports).

Apple fanboys/fangirls/fanothers: even the Mac Professional consists of two legacy USB-A ports (admittedly it additionally has 4 Thunderbolt ports). Why is that this relic of previous tech cluttering the clear design of an Apple product in 2021?

Associated:

• USB4 was standardized in 2019, however PC motherboards nonetheless don’t help it in any respect? (and subsequently no one ought to construct a brand new PC proper now as a result of the USB4 motherboards are across the nook?)