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<p>On 2020-04-30 11:37 a.m., Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#0b5394">I for one prefer to have my laptops with as few moving (and especially spinning) parts as possible. In the days of half-terabyte USB sticks, having a disk reader inside a laptop
is dead space/weight used for archiving/ripping, and certainly doesn't need to be as portable as the rest of the computer.</div>
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My main laptop uses a dongle for wired Ethernet (a reasonable trade-off considering how rarely I use it),but I've seen ingeniously-thin RJ45 sockets built into some units.<br>
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<p>I've recently switched back to using docking stations, which give me toms of USB ports, multiple screen ports and wired Ethernet. My next machine won't need as many and as man kinds of ports onboard.</p>
<p>Colleagues at work use a cute little mac thingie that their screens and Ethernets plug into, a really small dock.</p>
<p>--dave</p>
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David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify
System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest
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