@wyatt @sinewave @puppygirlhornypost2

> The point about not having as many ports may be true but that's not why people call the mac a donglebook, they call it a donglebook because all I/O is just USB C ports.

most users just care that they need to carry the thing and and have it "dongle" (heh) from the laptops tbh

the usual normie only sees usb-c as "oh the small one that can go both-ways"

> is the usual normie the intended market for the framework?

as i see, their target market is somewhere between macos user, and a "diy gaming pc" user, with a sprinkle of FOSS

> Also there's quite often enough room on the face of these ""cards"" (flush mounted dongles) that more I/O could have been provided than actually was.

> The headphone adapter for instance could easily have also fit a pass-through USB connector/hubbed connector as well, or much more simply just a line input TRS connector

i do agree, the "modules" are big probably so they could fit wider ports like hdmi/dp, and also having one module just for trrs on the fw16 is a waste

nothing really stops a single module from having two (small) ports, and i feel like the fw13 could have 3 "slots" on either side but it doesn't, so i'm not denying that only 4 ports + trrs (fw13) or 6 ports (fw16) is weirdly few