I have my Ethernet, mouse, second screen, keyboard all connected to monitor one. How do you love with a portable device that you have to plug in 7 things before you can start working…

🫢the non-pro pro, I forgot about that 🤪sorry

You travel with one dongle where up to 10 devices can be plugged in in various ports

Lol, I would literally choose 4x thunderbolt multi function ports than 10x dedicated only one use case ports. Not because of capitalism but because of functionality.

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Lol, you do not need a no projector, just a hdmi to c dongle on the hdmi cable that is already there -> 5 to 20 dollars

And if it is that old, it will not need 48gb/s or do you have 8k 120hz?? (This would be veeeery expensive)

Yes, pros need that, that why pros get them. Air user won’t use 4 ports.

If air user do, they should be pro user.

Just use USB-C to Ethernet cables 😇

😌 I “need” it only twice on my daily driver a year.

There are many more devices I use in various situations with various ports and dongles. Heavy cables are a pain for all of them, no matter if dongles or no dongles. In fact dongles often prevent internal damage, since they often have a short flexible cable on the thunderbolt side.

But I guess doing something just a little different does need a lot of time to get used to, especially at the age of boomers 🤷🏻

Heavy cables are just stupid no matter the port used, or dongle. Dongles do not brake faster than normal ports do. Normal ports do internal damage just the same way. “Cause disconnects”, only if damaged.

I don’t have problems with my dongle (which I had to use like only 2 times a year, anyway)

Well, if you use such legacy style of connection to projector, I may agree, if it was not that easy to upgrade the cable to have a c to hdmi adapter mounted all the time.

I connect wireless to my projectors, like, everywhere.

Never used more than 4 ports at the same time… you did?

They re-added out of pressure from pros

I would prefer 10x USB C than that shit, lol

Or just a little dongle with both of these ports which can be plugged in on any usb-c on any side?

🤷🏻you are even more free these days without even realising, I never saw any laptop at any age having more than one ethernet.

Useless old school holes? I am glad they did.

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🫢you don’t use windows enterprise at work?