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revelation on Nov 14, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: The best laptop ever made

The best laptop ever made came with not one, but two ports for an utterly failed connector standard (Thunderbolt), long since ditched?

And those replaced the ubiquitous RJ45 Ethernet jack?

At least they had the good sense to include HDMI and not go full TB.

bhj on Nov 15, 2017 [–]

The connections are standard mini-DisplayPort, which is still very much a thing. As is the Thunderbolt 1/2 protocol over those connections (in the audio world, for example)

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