Why are they so stingy with the usbc ports?

How much can these chips possibly cost?

Most peripherals on a desktop are still USB-A.
Logitech in particular has been dragging feet on USB-C for ages. Get them and HP onboard with supplying Type-C to Type-C cables and you'd probably see a shift in the market pretty fast. Peripheral companies are traditionally VERY slow to adopt new standards, probably due to lead time and molding costs.  And while you see it as just a cable change for them it means new packaging, manuals, support staff training, product codes and ultimately new cables. They also need to be early rid of current inventory before they even start that.

As for costs and such, while it seems like  they could easily just put type C port instead of type A (even if only USB 2 or USB 3 speeds) type-C doesn't stack like type A ports do so they would need to rebuild the whole rear I/O including new port molds and wiring (possibly daughter board)  to add a few more and I don't think anyone has done so yet. Currently you could probably get three type-C and three type A along with display, audio and ethernet and while that may appeal to you, most people want more than 6 ports, let alone 3 type A. It also means a lot more traces as Type C requires a lot more wires. So yeah, it's a cost issue.

"71% of Americans say nothing he’s done in the last eight months has improved their lives."

- Mike Nellis 2025-07-18

It hardly matters which arm the person uses to COMMIT the unconscionable.

And that has What? to do with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting?

Looking to get my hands on Boho. Anyone have a set just sitting around and looking to offload?? Let me know, and I'll gladly take it off your hands. Thanks

PS - can somebody explain to me what the contemporary term "woke" means - in plain English?

Depends on who you're asking.

One group of people use it as a political dog whistle, it means anything they dislike or get told to dislike. This is why none of them can define it, it's not that they necessarily can't, it's just that if they do they expose who they really are. It's a way to express who they really are without saying who they really are.

The actual meaning refers to more or less watching your back because law enforcement has a (very) racial bias and doesn't really care who they pin a crime on.


BTW, this is why the solved murder rate percentage has actually gone down with the advent of DNA, fingerprints and other technology that should help law enforcement find the right person. It was not uncommon for the public and police to just blame a minority and off to jail someone went, more tech made them not just have to work harder to collect actual evidence but also absolved a lot of those falsely accused. When they claim law enforcement has gotten harder, yes it has, they now have actually do their job and try to find the right person. There is still a lot of innocent people in jail though either because they pre-date this tech or simply cannot afford to fight and prove their innocence so they take a plea deal.