USB is just too fiddly
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What I think is extra annoying is that basically ALL computer companies put the LAN port right next to the USB ports, and when I reach into the back of my computer to plug in my USB device, I always accidently plug it into the LAN port! Why the heck must they make lan ports the same exact width as the USB ports??? I hate moving my ginormous tower pc just to see the USB port!
Yeah that's what I was saying about having to reach around and fiddle when plugging something in tbe back. Although I can usually feel the LAN port which is wider (it's mroe square unlike USB). Of course if it's an ongoing problem - just plug in an unused LAN cable ;)
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
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Does anyone else find connecting USB devices just a little bit annoying? Just by glancing at it you can't easily discern which way to plug it in - just trial and error. And sometimes you try and plug it in the right way, but it doesn't seem to fit right away (maybe it's just an inferior design on my PC case), so I assume it's the wrong way, and it should just be easy! Personally I find it way too fiddly, and I just find it hard to believe that by now they haven't come up with something that little bit more user-friendly for something so common.
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
Maybe they should make the next version's plug a square and triangle instead of the long rectangle shape, trying to plug that cable in on the back of a computer that you can not get to, does drive you crazy. The way it is now it will almost fit or will fit, should be it will fit or not. Actually I'm waiting for that day when you do not even have cables strung all under you desk, like some mad spider has been at work building the ugliest web ever, out of the thickest gage wire it seems to be able to find.
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Does anyone else find connecting USB devices just a little bit annoying? Just by glancing at it you can't easily discern which way to plug it in - just trial and error. And sometimes you try and plug it in the right way, but it doesn't seem to fit right away (maybe it's just an inferior design on my PC case), so I assume it's the wrong way, and it should just be easy! Personally I find it way too fiddly, and I just find it hard to believe that by now they haven't come up with something that little bit more user-friendly for something so common.
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
I hear you brother. Though just to be clear; I don't want to go back to the old tech. USB does normally work even if it is a bit fiddly at times. What I'd like to see is a MagSafe[^] USB system. My MacBook Pro has a MagSafe power plug and it is fantastic. In the dead of the night I can just wave the power plug at the laptop and the magnet pulls it into the right position and snicks it home. Though maybe the magnet will screw up the data? No idea. But it would be cool all the same.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
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At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
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I hear you brother. Though just to be clear; I don't want to go back to the old tech. USB does normally work even if it is a bit fiddly at times. What I'd like to see is a MagSafe[^] USB system. My MacBook Pro has a MagSafe power plug and it is fantastic. In the dead of the night I can just wave the power plug at the laptop and the magnet pulls it into the right position and snicks it home. Though maybe the magnet will screw up the data? No idea. But it would be cool all the same.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
Paul Watson wrote:
MagSafe[^] USB system
Damn, not thats COOL! BTW it's for power only right, not USB?
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza