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by exmadscientist
20 days ago
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Yes, this would have been around 2015. (When I said "Surface Book" I meant the original!) Docks were bad, bad products in those days. They were no longer the dedicated bulky-but-reliable things of years past, or the modern finally-debugged dongles we've got now. This was Intel's Alpine Ridge and it was hell. (At least, I think that was the one. Certainly, it was hell!) |
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The old bulky-but-reliable things often enough didn't contain much electronics - it was often enough the raw interfaces exposed directly on these multi-pin connectors. Simple, stupid and reliable as long as no electrically conductive dirt was around.