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Why do recent laptops have fewer USB ports?

  • 19-02-2010 3:35pm
    #1
    hertz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 255 ✭✭


    Why do recent laptops have fewer USB ports?
    I have noticed over the past few years new laptops from the likes of Dell, HP, Sony to name a few, have fewer USB ports. I found a recent Sony and HP laptop had only 3 ports which is a little frustrating when you want to attach an external hard drive along with an external mouse and maybe a camera or USB stick. These are common things people use these days, and even some external hard drives need 2 ports.


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  • #2
    manutd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 988 ✭✭✭manutd


    It is to save space, i only have two on my acer, but i use this. All i do is connect the one USB to my laptop.


  • #3
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,285 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    manutd wrote: »
    It is to save space, i only have two on my acer, but i use this. All i do is connect the one USB to my laptop.

    You can often get pretty much the same thing in the 2euro shops. I have a 4-port PCMCIA USB2.0 adapter on my laptop that only has 1 x USB1.0 port


  • #4
    L31mr0d
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,067 ✭✭✭L31mr0d


    A lot of newer laptops have wireless and bluetooth integrated. Peripherals that used to require USB connections can now be connected wirelessly.

    They majority of laptops and newer Desktop PC's also have built in SD card readers. I move files around via SD cards now and no longer really use USB flash drives.

    The only USB connection I use on my laptop is the eSATA/USB for the transfer speeds to my eSATA external HDD. However, even that will soon be freed up when I connect a NAS device to my gigabit network to house my HDD's (transfer speeds over gigabit are comparable to eSATA)

    My KB/M is bluetooth and my printer/scanner is wireless. Who needs USB?


  • #5
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    My Pavillion has 3 but its easy enough to have up to 5 or 6 devices going. You can get some really nice pocket hubs out there, with the cell-phone charge sized adapters to boost them if you need to run multiple drives.


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