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I think it's a competition to see how many different types of plugs they can make for a one particular make and model of electronic.
 
I have had a bunch of HP chromebooks (And this windozer is an HP with one (USB-C) exception they all take the same plug. Some had bigger bricks. (But all the same voltage) I have some older HP windows machines a well (one of which I'm trying to convert to linux) Same plug, Same voltage.
There is a move in Governments to "Standardize" the connectors so everything.. Laptop. 'Droid, I-phone. Google phone, Windows phone. and a whole lot more ONE PLUG ONE VOLTAGE>
I hear that at least for some devices (Phones and tablets I think) Some other countries have already done this..
Will it happen here in the USA.... As they say your guess.. Good as mine.
 
Skookum said:
Why do you need 3 different Chromebooks? lol
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Ok I will give you a serious answer. I don't like moving the Chromebooks around. I keep one 11" CB next to my chair when I watch TV. I have one 11" CB next to my bed. I have one 11" CB on top of my synthesizer tuned into my YouTube organ/piano playlist. I have the 14" Acer CB next to my digital drum set tuned into my YouTube drum playlist. i have the 15'' Acer CB mounted on my exercise bike tuned into YouTube traveling videos. And I have one 17" Windows laptop that I haven't used in years. I don't even know who makes it. The last 11" CB I bought was $69. They are so cheap it is easier to have one every place I use a computer.
 
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John From Detroit said:
I have had a bunch of HP chromebooks (And this windozer is an HP with one (USB-C) exception they all take the same plug. Some had bigger bricks. (But all the same voltage) I have some older HP windows machines a well (one of which I'm trying to convert to linux) Same plug, Same voltage.
There is a move in Governments to "Standardize" the connectors so everything.. Laptop. 'Droid, I-phone. Google phone, Windows phone. and a whole lot more ONE PLUG ONE VOLTAGE>
I hear that at least for some devices (Phones and tablets I think) Some other countries have already done this..
Will it happen here in the USA.... As they say your guess.. Good as mine.
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They should have standardized years ago but for some silly reason it never happened.
 
Arch Hoagland said:
I'm with you Seiler Bird...I have 5 computers and a tablet spread around the house. Life is great!
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The big advantage to having CBs at each place is that they are permanently plugged in except the one in the living room. I use that one on batteries. I just plug it in over night. I also have one Fire tablet two cell phones and four weather stations all plugged in. I have one weather station in my bedroom, one in the bathroom, one in the kitchen and one in the living room. I agree, life is great. I think my five CBs cost less totally than my Windows laptop. And they all look and act the same. And they boot up in 8 seconds.
 
I've been lucky with Apple. Have been able to use the same charging cord across at least two generations of phones (I only buy a phone every 5 years or so, or when I destroy one, which is rare). Laptops last me 5-6 years and the current one uses a lightning connector. I prefer MagSafe, which I think they've gone back to. The one for the phone fits the other phones and tablets in our house ;)

My PC laptop uses some stupid huge brick with a round plug, but then it uses a USB-C powered connection for the dock, which uses a different round plug and brick. Bah.
 
Skookum said:
Why do you need 3 different Chromebooks? lol
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"Need"? For the same reason I need 11 motorcycles.

But there is an accepted formula for how many motorcycles one should own. It's "N+1" where "N" represents the number we currently own. I own ten now, so I have my 11th on order.

And I own far more computers than motorcycles!

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-Don- Crescent City, CA
 
SeilerBird said:
Ok I will give you a serious answer. I don't like moving the Chromebooks around. I keep one 11" CB next to my chair when I watch TV. I have one 11" CB next to my bed. I have one 11" CB on top of my synthesizer tuned into my YouTube organ/piano playlist. I have the 14" Acer CB next to my digital drum set tuned into my YouTube drum playlist. i have the 15'' Acer CB mounted on my exercise bike tuned into YouTube traveling videos. And I have one 17" Windows laptop that I haven't used in years. I don't even know who makes it. The last 11" CB I bought was $69. They are so cheap it is easier to have one every place I use a computer.
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Are they labeled with Dynamo labels so that you don’t put one in the wrong area?:)
 
I adopted the dedicated computer concept a couple decades ago. Back when nice computers were really expensive I had just a couple or three and went through all sorts of gyrations to set them up to do the various things I wanted. I still have an early pentium that has like six hard drives in and probably a couple dozen partitions all with various filesystems which ran different flavors of windoze, linux and OS/2 on. Fast forward to today the uniqueness of the tasks are no different but it's just easier and cheaper to throw computers at it. I only have 3 at work but I probably run a dozen or more at home, though only a couple in the RV. I treat them like table lamps, turn them on when I do something and turn them off. It works out great, once something's set up and running I leave it be - no issues with "updates" blowing up software or configurations. I have a buddy that's an IT professional and he gives me his agency's obsolete computers, so I have more than I know what to do with.

Mark B.
Albuquerque, NM
 
DonTom said:
"Need"? For the same reason I need 11 motorcycles.

But there is an accepted formula for how many motorcycles one should own. It's "N+1" where "N" represents the number we currently own. I own ten now, so I have my 11th on order.

And I own far more computers than motorcycles!

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-Don- Crescent City, CA
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Well, yeah, but you are talking about motorcycles. Nothing wrong with having 11 bikes, I can totally get behind that.

I’d just assume carry around one laptop where it’s needed. But I guess having 3 makes sense if theyre tied down or set up for specific purposes.
 
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