When the Surface Pro was refreshed last year we were surprised and disappointed to see that it joined the Surface Laptop in having neither USB Type-C nor Thunderbolt 3. Instead, Microsoft said that it ...
“With the rapid adoption of USB Type-C, the market is looking for fast ways to bring USB Type-C connectivity to products and for adapter dongles that enable connectivity with older products,” said ...
HDMI Licensing, the outfit that decides what is or what isn't HDMI compatible, is releasing HDMI Alternate Mode (Alt Mode) for USB Type-C devices. The new spec will finally allow HDMI video signals to ...
Remember the time Apple gave the iPhone a new connector and you had to buy a dongle to use all your old accessories? It’s happening again. But worse. Apple’s new Macbook has a do-everything USB type-C ...
Sure, that's a possibility, but from what I'm aware of the main draw of USB-C is external GPU enclosures. So without the mini-dp you'd have to connect to an external monitor with USB-C alternate mode, ...
The new Kaby Lake-equipped Surface Pro is an incremental update on the Surface Pro 4. It has Intel’s latest processor and a healthy improvement to battery life, but it doesn’t include USB Type-C or ...
With the launch of the Surface Laptop and Surface Pro in May 2017, Microsoft disappointed some by not including support for USB Type-C on their new devices. The firm offered an olive branch to users, ...
The U in USB stands for "universal", but the latest version of the port hasn't lived up to that promise. Progress is ...
The recent generations of Microsoft's Surface devices have been surrounded by a bit of controversy, due to the lack of a USB Type-C port, a technology that virtually all of the company's competitors ...
Since the supported Surface systems only have one Surface Connect port, this means that you can either charge your laptop or tablet, or use the dongle to connect to a Type-C peripheral, but not both ...
Alongside its $99 Lightning and Bluetooth cables, Shure announced its USB Type-C replacement cable The $99 cable features an MMCX connector and a Cirrus Logic digital-to-analog converter Shure’s USB ...
Some modern laptops and tablets have nothing but USB Type-C ports. Most of Microsoft’s Surface devices, meanwhile, don’t even have a single USB-C port. But the company promised last year that it would ...