David wrote:
I'm still getting to grips with my new Dell XPS.
One thing I have noticed is the lack of ports.
Just 2 USB C and one of those is taken up with the power supply.
With modern laptops, you're expected to work in one of two ways, either
power it via USB-C and do everything else over wifi+bluetooth
or
buy some form of dock, preferably thunderbolt (v3 or v4)
which will give you 40Gbps of bandwidth, enough to run a couple of huge monitors, multiple fast USB devices, 2.5Gbps ethernet, and as many other
"slow" USB devices as you can shake a stick at, audio in/out, while
providing about 100W of power all over a single cable ...
e.g. caldigit TS4, dell WD22TB4, ugreen revodok, etc
Do lots of research ... features vary ... they're not cheap ... you
don't want to kick yourself after discovering your combination of laptop
and dock don't do "that one thing you need" ...
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