Just had an oh-shit! moment at the library.
Depending on how things go, if the USB Implementers Forum can:
- get the naming debacle figured out to where it’s useful to people without sounding like gibberish.
- develop USB-C to be more powerful than HDMI & DisplayPort.
- lower licensing fees.
then USB-C could potentially overtake HDMI and DisplayPort in the graphics display cable market.
The reason I’m saying this is cause:
- USB-C just_works.™️ for external/multi-monitor displays (it even works on my current dogshit NixOS laptop).
- some manufacturers have already previously experimented/and sold graphics cards (GPUs) with USB-C as a display option.
As manufacturers already have to pay for HDMI/DisplayPort licensing fees, now it’s just a matter of who can provide the most with the least overhead costs.
While it’s not guranteed that USB-C is the true end solution, it does provide manufacturers with another option, which technically should lower costs for them to manufacture GPUs.
God fucking damnit. I’m an electrician, I’m not supposed to do IT, but they call me for IT because computers are electricity. My number 1 call is USB-C dock related, usually a destroyed cable because it’s been folded over 10k times or the port on the laptop because it has been plugged and unplugged 5x the MTF.
I feel your pain, we only have a dozen docks.