USB C Pro Max SuperSpeed Venti Extreme
this post was submitted on 11 Jan 2025
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There ya go...
To be fair, these were better than the previous standards.
Nah, I preferred USB 4 gen 3.7, 3x3, so clear and concise....
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Agreed. I can't stand the previous symbology.
It's disturbing that I kinda miss the pre-USB days when, if the cable matched the port physically, it also matched the port in terms of capabilities (unless someone was doing something deliberately stupid). At least that meant you knew right away whether you had the right cable or not.
USB-C has been a blessing and curse. One port that does everything, except when it doesn't. Even charging is now complicated by the "guess the cable that supports the right PD type" game.
Not that the old days were much better. I don't miss faffing around with the myriad of serial and parallel port modes and settings.
Problem with the old days was that you had to have each kind of cable for it to work. No LPT cable? No printer. Hope the cable is long enough. There was no integrated Bluetooth or wifi, or even a dongle available. Haven’t even gotten around to the internals yet with ribbon cables for floppy or IDE or whatever.
Yeah, USB-C comes with it’s own issues, but I much prefer this to the bin full of cables, plugs, wall warts, connectors and adapters that were kept on hand just in case.
+1.
I wish we had type c but all cables were labeled with clear functionality from the start. I don't like data/power only cables.
These have their place, though. The obvious example is public charging cables, which at least have had PoC for exploits.
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At least with barrel jacks that would have been an easy way to frie your electronics back then. With USB C you might encounter incompatibility, but at least you won't break anything (with a few exceptions like the Nintendo Switch getting bricked by connecting certain 3rd party chargers to the official dock, or using a bad 3rd party dock)
And then there's shit like this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Standard-Computer-Quieter2-Quieter2Q-Quieter2D-Black/dp/B099RXXDYT
if you want to use it on the third part mini pc,confirm that the output voltage of your mini pc needs 12V. If the output voltage is lower or higher than 12V and the output current exceed 2A, it will burn your mini pc or cpu.
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Fucking finally
Now the EU needs to make it a legal requirement that every cable sold includes an engraving of the speed and watts on both ends.
The fact this dogshit continued for so long is unforgivable. Capitalism is most efficient my ass. It's like the USB specs naming convention was outsourced to the dumbest, most illiterate engineers alive.
On second thought, the profit motive indicates the naming convention was probably done to intentionally create confusion and sell more cables.
Story is two years old apparently
https://www.pcworld.com/article/1339611/redesigned-usb-logos-finally-make-sense.html
I was going to say... I've had a cable with that logo on it for over a year.
Did the logo fix everything?
Well i still can't get the dock that came with it to output to multiple 4k monitors (even though it's supposed to be able to), so...
Well, for that functionality the connected PC/Laptop also needs to support it
It does.
Great, so let's now do that with memory cards. Faster than Class 10? Call it Class 11, not Class 10 U1 or U3. Faster than Class 11? Call it Class 12. There's no shortage of numbers. Let's drop all this U1 U2 bollocks.
Yes, I am still sore about those Class 10 cards I bought for my dashcam that don't fucking work because it wants U3 and they were U1.
Thank god. It's about time we call things by terms that actually matter, rather than this technical jargon like USB 3.1 Gen 2. Even if someone doesn't know what a gigabit is, they can still look at this new scheme and know that higher number = more speed. This is such an upgrade
Fine by me, as long as the Bluetooth logo is never changed. Long live King Harald Gormsson, the unifier!
Took long enough for someone over there to figure out they made some mistakes with recent branding. Glad they've finally made some positive changes for end users though.
Ultimately, it's great that users won't need to squint to read the fine print or cross-reference spec sheets once the labels gain popularity.
I can't even read the labels on the cables in the article photos.
EDIT: I get it, you all have 20/10 vision and no astigmatism, thanks for your input.
Reality has a higher resolution than this potato photo.
I can't even read the labels on the cables in the article photos.
...Because the image is crappy resolution, its like complaining you can't read without your glasses on.
That bottom one looks embossed instead of printed. At the size of a USB-C cable plug, that's going to be difficult to read outside of ideal lighting conditions.
That's still significantly better than having no markings at all.
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I'll believe it when I see it
This isn't that. It's relabeling the existing USB standards in a way that actually makes sense finally.
Yeah, but the old labels won't just magically disappear. Tech folks might know how to handle it but for everyone else it will be just more of the same. As far as they care for labeling to begin with.
I think this time the manufacturers will be pretty quick at adopting the new branding; if there's two competing devices next to each other, one marked with "USB 3.2 Gen 2x2", which no one understands, and other one with "USB 20Gbps" I think the latter will sell more.
Yeah something you don't have to further look up to figure out what it means. Just simpler.
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Can’t wait for all the crapware to flood the market and slap that 80gbps logo on anything and everything
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Damn that's a lot of bandwidth
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