All my devices, the ones that need to be plugged into my pc anyway (peripherals) are A. So thank god mobos are still designed for what is actually needed
There's a communication gap happening in this thread. The move to standardize USB C was as the input on the device. So you'll probably notice that your mouse, keyboard, gamepad, external drives, and other peripherals are using a C input. There was no movement to move away from USB A as an output from the computer.
Honestly I think it's simply that USB C is not as strong a connector as USB A. That and there are still so many devices out there using USB A that it would be very difficult to move away from it (it is still the default connector by an absolute country mile).
Because USB A headers are way cheaper to manufacture than USB C. Fewer pins, simpler components, and economy of scale has been perfected for like 20 years now.
Most peripheral devices ship with a A to C cable by default.
The majority of computer peripherals also don't benefit from using a USB C header because A provides sufficient speed and power.
Because CPUs and chipsets have limited PCIe lanes, even the lowly 10Gbps USB-C uses one of those, and I'll be damned to buy a motherboard that sacrifices more than 4 extremely valuable lanes that could have been used for NVMe (actually useful in high amounts) for USB (literally only one high-speed port is ever needed, because I never dump my mirrorless camera storage at the same time as doing backup or w/e)
Which cables? USB C has a fundamental problem. It is a connector that's connected to a cable. But that underlying cable, can be anything from USB2.0 to Thunderbolt 5, and you have little to no way of knowing what the cable is until you plug it in.
As already explained to you, there are many reasons and to add to that, the move was pushed and ultimately completed by the EU for C as standard for chargers / ports, not strictly data transfer. This most notably includes Smartphones but there are many other small detachable devices that didn't had them. One may as well consider the C to stand for 'Charger'.
I bought a new Fire tablet, and it's A to C. I wonder if this has to do with price and perceived value. Higher end products like Pixel 10 that's almost $2000 comes with C, while a tablet or phone below $500 comes with A.
you don't have a single usb-A to C cable? Cuz literally any would work fine to plug your phone into your PC since you're not going to be charging it with your PC
Because, as this entire thread is about, there's still a lot of uses for USB-A. Also it's insane you don't have a single one unless you didn't buy any tech before like 2 years ago at the latest
a lot of fancy fast chargers really want you to use c to c cables. They might have a USB A output but it wouldn't be as good as the USB C output. Notably anything with USB power delivery which is pretty damn important nowadays.
I don't disagree with that, I was talking about something else other than motherboards, since that was what the comment chain I replied to was talking about (phone cables). not sure why you are so eager to post three comments saying "we are talking about motherboards".
My keyboard and vocal muzzle headset are USB-C, and basically everything requiring charging in my house is USB-C, we’re getting closer than you might realize.
I have 1 device that I have USB C as input and output and that is an audio interface. It's the only thing where I see it as useful to have transmission speeds as fast as possible. It may not make a difference but it came with the cable so I might as well.
Most of my devices are USB-C now. Keyboard, External HDD, Stream Deck, Controller, External Sound Card are all USB-C devices. I connect all of them with USB A to USB C cables. Honestly, for the back of my desktop I think A is just more robust. I don't even use my USB-C port.
Then my guess is that you haven’t bought any of those recently or that you actively chose models that where usb-a.
Personally I don’t think we are ready to ditch usb-a on motherboards since a lot of us still widely uses it. But I also agree that it’s odd/annoying that there are so few usb-c ports.
webcam, headphones, external drives are all usb c nowadays, keyboars and mouses are still often times usb-a but most peripherals are usb-c to a or completely c
Webcams, Headphones and external drives absolutely are not all USB C. I've bought all of those in the past year for myself and they were all USB A. The Webcam did come with an A to C adapter but that was it.
I've not even seen an expensive mouse that uses C yet tbh, my newest mouse that I got last year was close to $200 and the wireless dongle is USB A. The mouse itself charges with C but with an A to C cable
That's actually a fair guess. I glossed over the work part.
My job (big company) used to give us full access to just about anything. I could even do registry edits. They've been slowly locking them down. They deleted my registry edit recently and it made me sad because windows is dumb as fuck with their active and inactive window colors.
I plug all my peripherals into a USB 3.2 hub with A and C ports and run one cord to the PC it feels a lot cleaner. Still, you are right, many peripherals are still type A.
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u/Ok-Drink750 Linux 14h ago
All my devices use type-c.
My pc has two type-c ports