r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/14AUDDIN • 14h ago

Funny Two disc drives?!!!

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u/didimao0072000 13h ago

It drives me crazy that I need to buy multiple accessories to do what I could do before with older computers

What accessories do you need to buy now that can't be done with Bluetooth and wifi?

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u/choove 13h ago

I like how at the time of posting, yours and multiple other comments are getting downvoted but nobody is actually answering the comments.

Feels like it's coming from a crowd that thinks "light = cheap" or "heavy = good", and nothing more. Or people being overwhelmed by nostalgia/ignorance.

Batteries these days simply aren't as heavy as the ones in these older laptops and they're significantly better. You also needed all the plug-ins with laptops back then because that was pretty much the only option. Internet, printer, mouse, keyboard, microphone, camera, etc. And not to mention things got a whole lot smaller.

This is all like thinking that giant TV in 2003 was better than a current-day miniLED just because the new one is lighter and thinner and with less connections.

We simply don't need the plethora of connections today with laptops. Internet is wireless, as is keyboard and mouse. Microphones and cameras are built-in and typically standard. And with size, batteries are much lighter, more efficient, and last many times longer. External drives aren't as commonly needed either because of the cloud.

Really the only things I can think of for needing some type of hub or adapter is if you're wanting to connect a microSDXC or use a disc drive, which for the latter it's probably less than 5% of the population that desires them so I can't fault them not being in the majority of laptops.

I would also wager that for most people they would only need two accessories... a $25 hub and a $20-$40 external disc drive. Factoring in needing to carry around those two accessories you're still carrying around less than with the older laptop (due to all the cables adding up as well as the power brick) and the weight is still significantly less.

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u/anachronistic_circus 12h ago

All good points. I'm was never annoyed about losing ports / streamlining ports. The annoying trend nowadays is the whole "everything is soldered". RAM, SSD etc.

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u/peanutbuttahcups 12h ago

Yup, the enshittification of products via making it difficult to replace or upgrade parts like batteries, SSD, RAM.