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Purchasing Factor 01 – Ports

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Move to the side Danbo!

Please dont mind the cardboard bot. Anyway, I’ve been asked by a friend (yes it’s you Jacyn) to recommend a gaming portable and so I did; I figured that when considering a purchase there are plenty of factors and the list can go on and on… this might be a good series to create on this blog and this post is the beginning of it.

USB ports are the standard for data transfer and accessories probably for a few more years to come. Thunderbolt is simply not making it into the market just yet. With all the hype currently on touch/screen development and getting thinner, most of what is out right now wouldn’t be able to do what is happening behind Danbo in the photo above: a file transfer between two USB3 devices.

The argument maintains that when considering a new product purchase you need to be prepared to be utilizing the fixed number of ports that comes with the portable and this includes video, LAN, cards, and audio. A simple formula – thinner = fewer this goes for everything… more recent tech are attempting to render ports obsolete through wifi direct and the like. But until that idea is commercialized completely, you’d have to put this under consideration, especially if you’re going to use the portable as a workstation.

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Mark O.

Mark is an architect and artist who endeavors to design most anything that requires a little bit of thought into it.

Although writing is not considered a primary focus, a little too much time can yield many thoughts that are just begging to be written down.

Armed with a trusty array of content creation devices and surrounded with a continuous flux of technology and life, herein lies those that are fortunate enough to have been given presence through a little bit of movement and a whole lot of iterations.

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