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by Laforet 944 days ago
There is no need to make every port fully featured. Even MacBooks doesn't have that for the kind of price they demand
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Having different ports that are mechanically compatible but not feature-wise is a UX failure. The blue/black color labeling made that somewhat acceptable for USB-A, but now that motherboards have started to use blue/red color labeling for ports that are feature compatible (just connected differently internally), even that color labeling is becoming a UX failure.
I think at least the Mx do have only fully featured ports?

If they support just one display but you can plug it in any port is one thing.

On a motherboard you're more likely to see 'these 5 ports are data only, 2 of them can charge beyond 5W, and that 6th port can be used for a display'.