Android for tweakers, USB-C
Someone on the internet said, "The advantage of Android is that you are free to tweak everything to your liking. The disadvantage is that you have to." There was some sort of comparison with the Apple enclosed garden going on. Experiments with the v5 Android live CD from exton continue. Seems picky about hardware, more so than the Kitkat from android-x86 project. Meanwhile the release of a new Apple lightweight laptop reveals the existence of USB-C. Say what? http://www.wired.com/2015/03/usb-type-c-faq/ Coming to a device near you soon now apparently. Oh dear, so hard to keep up.
On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 09:58:55 +0000, Ian Young wrote:
Meanwhile the release of a new Apple lightweight laptop reveals the existence of USB-C. Say what?
Interesting to compare the latest Apple MacBook <http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/03/hands-on-with-the-retina-macbook-one-port-wonder/> with Google’s revised Chromebook Pixel <http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/03/review-chromebook-pixel-2-is-still-lovely-hardware-with-limited-appeal/>. USB Type C connectors are very versatile, but forcing you to connect everything through a single port leads to a plethora of dongles. Google took the simple step of providing a port on each side: just the convenience of being able to run your charger cable to whichever side is closer to the power--now why didn’t Apple think of that?
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