Comment on What do you think of framework and their methods?
sir_reginald@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s unfortunate that the Framework modules aren’t quite big enough. They can’t put two USB-A ports side by side on one module, and there apparently isn’t enough room for the USB hub electronics, anyway. Just a bit wider and they’d make it.
Still the best laptop I’ve owned.
To be fair, all these ports put together can’t match a single USB-4 in bandwidth. And I get they are pretty useful to avoid dongles, but I bet your ThinkPad (with that many ports I’m guessing a W or T, maybe 30 series?) weights more than a framework and a competent USB-C hub.
(But I love the ergonomics of old ThinkPads, that’s why my x201 gets almost as much use as my T480)
pascal@lemm.ee 1 year ago
A modem!? Does your ThinkPad also have an IR blaster? 🤣
sir_reginald@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Mossheart@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Check what facts? No model number was provided. The ThinkPad spans decades. We don’t even know if this is an IBM era or Lenovo era Thinkpad.
toddestan@lemm.ee 1 year ago
That it has e-SATA would put it in the Lenovo-era, possibly one of the models that still had the IBM badging.
The the humor-impaired, there were also ThinkPads with an IrDA port too.
sir_reginald@lemmy.world 1 year ago
MeanEYE@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s not useful for most, but for some it’s irreplaceable. Just like the old serial port. For most people it feels archaic, but for industrial use it’s as present as USB is. ThinkPads cater to a huge audience, consisting mostly of technical people.
frezik@midwest.social 1 year ago
I feel like the modem held on in laptops far too long. By the Windows 95 era, most modems were just weird sound cards that put most of the work onto the CPU to convert the data into sounds. They were dirt cheap, so laptop manufacturers could keep them there for the hell of it.
naticus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Oh god I forgot those existed. They were always terrible, even for modem technology. I remember having to help my mom’s friend with her Emachine with one of those and the drivers were a trainwreck.