21 Dec
2015
21 Dec
'15
12:52 a.m.
Len Ovens <len(a)ovenwerks.net> writes:
Laptop, now means USB is the only expansion game in
town... The
manufactures have worked hard to make it so. Even many desktops are
hard to expand... and besides that, many fewer people (percentage
wise) are willing to take two screws out of the cover to actually
change something inside.
And most off-the-shelf PC's these days don't have many slots. You only
get a lot of them if you're building from the motherboard up.
For less than $500 one can have the computer
and USB mic and make music. Manufactures do not want to make two kinds
of audio boxes if they can make one... the USB box works
everywhere. Raise latency a bit and it just works (even in
windows). Raise the latency a bit because USB requires it, because we
don't want complaints from the owner of the "super computer" buyer who
has a very fast machine with 32 cores and 64GB ram and poor
latency. So really, the USB IF fits in with everything else pretty
good. (It is the best compromise for the market)
I'm just surprised that no one is complaining, given what a bad rep USB
had just a few years ago.
Has anyone noticed that mother boards still have a
printer and two (or
four) serial headers?
Yes, though I'm not sure many people still remember what they were used
for.
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