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I'd like to see some source for this nonsense - especially since competitors somehow manage to still put USB-A and HDMI ports on similarly sized laptops.

E.g. I have a Razer laptop which has all the build quality and properties of a MacBook... except that they somehow managed to do the impossible: install 2x USB-C and 2x USB-A. How would have thought something like that is possible?!

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Can’t provide a source, but my mother-in-law works as a secretary at a school. Uses her computer 8 hours a day, every day. She has a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard, and a USB-C dock that her monitor is plugged into. That’s all she ever has to use at work. At home she has multiple external hard drives with photos and videos on them, these all have USB-C cables, making the USB-A requirement a non-issue, really. She’s never complained about nor missed a port.

She used to have a thicker HP with all the ports, but this one was still plugged into a dock at work, as that was simply the easiest thing to do.

For her, her daily life has not changed at all going from all the ports to two USB-C.

Just an anecdote.

I've had enough USB and HDMI ports break to easily believe they're a common source of problems/damage.

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