{"id":13141,"date":"2015-12-17T09:56:34","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T14:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=13141"},"modified":"2015-12-17T09:56:34","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T14:56:34","slug":"usb-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/17\/usb-c\/","title":{"rendered":"USB-C"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Pogue<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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USB Type C is the Yahoo Tech Technology of the Year. It is one really <\/i>amazing connector, capable of replacing the power, video, audio, and data jacks of every phone,\ntablet, and laptop—from every company. One single way to charge everything you\nown. One cable to rule them all.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

David Pogue<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The specifications for USB-C<\/a> were finalized late last year. That’s\nastonishing for two reasons: First, it was dreamed up by engineers and\nexecutives from every major electronics company, working side-by-side for three\nyears—even blood rivals like Apple and Google.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

One big question: Will Apple have the nerve to replace its Lightning connector (the one on iPhones and iPads) with USB-C, thus completing the earth’s transition to a completely universal charging jack?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Probably not, because Lightning is thinner and gives them more control.<\/p>\n

Sam Byford<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Well, I’ve been using the MacBook as my primary computer for the past six months or so, and it’s true that its one and only USB-C port can make things a bit awkward at times. But the last few weeks have been a whole lot easier, thanks to a little peripheral I’ve been testing. It’s called the Minix Neo C, and Apple really ought to have made this thing itself.<\/p>\n

The Neo C comes from Minix, a Hong Kong-based manufacturer of media hubs and various computer accessories. It’s a chunky yet compact hub made of sturdy metal that lets your MacBook’s USB-C port handle just about anything you’d want for regular computer use: two regular USB-A 3.0 ports that carry power, slots for both SD and microSD cards, a Gigabit Ethernet jack, your choice of VGA or HDMI monitor output — the latter up to 4K, though the highest resolution I could test was 2560 x 1080 21:9 — and, critically, another USB-C port so you can continue to charge your computer as you use all these features.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

David Pogue: USB Type C is the Yahoo Tech Technology of the Year. It is one really amazing connector, capable of replacing the power, video, audio, and data jacks of every phone, tablet, and laptop—from every company. One single way to charge everything you own. One cable to rule them all. David Pogue: The specifications […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30,1155,175,1154],"class_list":["post-13141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-mac","tag-macbook","tag-usb","tag-usb-c"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13142,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13141\/revisions\/13142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}