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Comment by retired

3 hours ago

I’m surprised to see those legacy USB ports on a board where space savings is important. Do they do it for backwards compatibility with older cases and housings?

And am I correct to see that the USB-C only does power? How do you connect your pheripherals to this board?

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CDRdude  3 hours ago

I think legacy USB peripherals are very common. Almost all of my peripherals are legacy USB; I think I only own a single USB-C peripheral. Old stuff still works, so I don't need to buy new ones.

  • retired  2 hours ago

    Interesting. I don’t own any legacy USB equipment anymore, everything is USB-C now. I started phasing out my old equipment ten years ago and everything from the past five years has had USB-C as standard. Even my shaver chargers over USB-C.

    I guess that the people who use $350 boards also mainly use USB-C. Unless you want to connect old hardware to it but I don’t see that use-case.

    Not being able to connect my devices to this board is a blocker for me.

forty  2 hours ago

Looks like all the USB-A devices purchased over the past 30 years have not been trashed and some people still use them.

  • retired  2 hours ago

    Understandable but I would have preferred a couple of fully functional USB-C ports and then have people use dongles for using old hardware on this board. Similar to using a serial adapter.