[retired]

I’m surprised to see those legacy USB ports on a board where space savings is important. Do they do it for backwards compatibility with older cases and housings?

And am I correct to see that the USB-C only does power? How do you connect your pheripherals to this board?

[CDRdude]

I think legacy USB peripherals are very common. Almost all of my peripherals are legacy USB; I think I only own a single USB-C peripheral. Old stuff still works, so I don't need to buy new ones.

[retired]

Interesting. I don’t own any legacy USB equipment anymore, everything is USB-C now. I started phasing out my old equipment ten years ago and everything from the past five years has had USB-C as standard. Even my shaver chargers over USB-C.

I guess that the people who use $350 boards also mainly use USB-C. Unless you want to connect old hardware to it but I don’t see that use-case.

Not being able to connect my devices to this board is a blocker for me.

[ssl-3]

A person who can justify spending $350 on an SBC can probably manage to shake enough change out of the sofa to buy an adapter to plug their widgets into it.

But, sure: It's definitely even cheaper than that to just sit back and complain about it.

[forty]

Looks like all the USB-A devices purchased over the past 30 years have not been trashed and some people still use them.

[retired]

Understandable but I would have preferred a couple of fully functional USB-C ports and then have people use dongles for using old hardware on this board. Similar to using a serial adapter.

[forty]

There are still new USB-A devices being sold, it's not like it's deprecated or something

[retired]

That is now illegal in the European Union. Everything sold is required to have USB-C.

> From 28 December 2024, the rules apply to mobile phones, tablets, digital cameras, headphones, headsets, videogame consoles, portable speakers, e-readers, keyboards, mice, portable navigation systems and earbuds sold in the EU. From 28 April 2026, they will also apply to laptops.

[echoangle]

You’re not allowed to sell keyboard and mice with USB-A port? Doubt it. Can you link the source you’re quoting?

Edit:

It’s this right?

https://commission.europa.eu/news-and-media/news/eu-common-c...

That’s only for battery powered devices afaik.

[retired]

Got it. I guess some people still use wired mice and keyboards with legacy connectors. But how many of those use them on a $350 board? Seems like a very small use case. I personally use Bluetooth for that, been doing that for the past 20 years.

[jkrejcha]

USB A? That's very much not legacy

If anything, it's probably like an order of magnitude more common, even for new designs