• Another behind the times moment - Bluetooth mouse and lack of USB and E

    From David@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jun 2 20:53:31 2024
    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.

    Fortunately I have a Dell hub from a previous PC which gives me Ethernet,
    HDMI, Display Port, and USB.

    Idly speculating how you are expected to do everything with one port, I suddenly wondered if Bluetooth was the answer for keyboards, mice etc.

    Looking on line I discovered there were a load of Bluetooth mice which
    also had USB connectors.

    I then discovered my latest ball mouse (because you can never have enough
    ball mice) was a Logitech Ergo M575 which had Bluetooth capability.

    So here I am unexpectedly modern with a truly wireless mouse.

    I also grumbled about the lack of Ethernet but now I have a new WiFi6
    router I have very fast WiFi which is as fast as Ethernet over the VM link.

    So I am gradually struggling out of the stone age.

    Cheers



    Dave R


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  • From Andy Burns@21:1/5 to David on Sun Jun 2 22:20:12 2024
    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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