But hardware hacker Alan Morford decided to bring the HP TouchPad into the 2020s by performing a little surgery: he converted the tablet’s micro USB port to a USB Type-C port. In a nutshell ...

If you’re looking for a solid 2-in-1 that gets the job done and you can get behind the idea of efficiency over power, then ...

Chief among them is compatibility, as the last thing a business wants to do is a mass roll-out of laptops that are ...

It’s USB-C All The Way Down There are four USB-C ports on the Framework laptop. All of these ports can be used as charging, USB3, DisplayPort or Thunderbolt 3 ports. This is possible in part ...

We’ve now had at least five years of USB-C ports in our devices. It’s a standard that many manufacturers and hackers can get behind. Initially, there was plenty of confusion about what we’d ...

For the most part, change happens slowly in the world of PCs and that's especially true of the humble USB port. Most motherboard manufacturers only throw in a handful of Type-C connectors on the ...

The monitor, printer, network, keyboard and mouse are permanently plugged into the port replicator, which connects to the laptop via the USB port. A port replicator provides some or all of the ...

We plugged each USB adapter into the USB 3.2 Gen 1 (aka USB 3.0) port of a Dell Latitude laptop running Windows 11. We installed the latest driver from each manufacturer’s website. We connected ...

A USB-C monitor can act as USB hub, giving you additional ports for connecting various USB devices, but the monitor’s USB-C port can also serve as a video-input alternative to HDMI or ...

(1) An external storage or optical disc drive that plugs into the USB port. See portable hard drive. (2) A small solid state storage module that plugs into the computer's USB port. Emerging just ...

USB Type-C has widely become the de facto primary means of wired connection for most of our electronic devices. It forms the ...