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usb is a giant lie the u in usb stands for

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universal but with the confusing naming schemes inconsistent port colors and

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varying power delivery capacities just saying something is usb feels about as

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universal as uh speaking esperanto and the infuriating

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thing is it doesn't have to be this way take for example the issue with port

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colors we just mentioned for a while things were relatively simple the og usb

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version 1.1 had white ports the faster

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usb 2.0 used the color black and once 3.0 rolled around those ports usually

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got colored blue that wasn't too hard to remember especially since quite a bit of

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time passed between those three original revisions but it didn't take long for

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things to get more complicated we got teal for 10 gigabit per second usb 3.1

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and red for 20 gigabit usb 3.2

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there are also colors that often indicate that the port either supports

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fast charging or stays on when the rest of the system is powered down for

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charging purposes these are usually warmer colors like yellow orange or red

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so that red port on your pc might not actually be 20 gigabit then

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you have other colors that indicate support for some form of proprietary

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fast charging such as purple for huawei or green for qualcomm and you now have

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to re-memorize what color stands for what usb version since everything that

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isn't usb 2.0 or older has been rebranded as usb 3.2

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what the point here is that there's actually

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no standardization on anything to do with usb port colors it's all just

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conventions that different hardware manufacturers may or may not follow i

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mean some companies just do whatever the heck they want for the sake of aesthetics which you'll know if you've

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ever bought anything from razer we'll tell you more right after we thank

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you can mount your camera mic or lighting with an integrated multi-mount

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point built into the aluminum stand learn more at the link below but even if

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you've never thought much at all about the color of a usb connector you can't

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exactly ignore its shape nowadays we have the reversible usb-c connector

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which has really taken off but it's still a long way from displacing that

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old-school rectangular usb-a connector completely and there's still plenty of

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confusion surrounding usb-c with a popular misconception being that usb-c

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ports always support the same features or are always faster this

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definitely is not the case as many usbc

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ports only support the older 5 gigabit spec and making matters worse for those

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trying to sort out what usb-c products to buy there are quite a few

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cheaply-made non-compliant usb-c cables out there that actually can damage your

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gadgets and the really sad part is that even with all the things you have to

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watch out for with usb-c it's arguably still better than the mishmash of other

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usb connector variants we've had in the past including mini micro and this funky

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looking thing that came out when they literally just had to glom on more pins

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to support usb 3.0 speeds and we haven't even gotten to the number one thing most

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of us use usb for these days charging

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we've actually done a full video on this that you can check out up here but for

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now we'll point out that there's a huge amount of variation in how quickly a

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port will charge up your phone or laptop the usb power delivery standard does

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help somewhat but there are still a few different flavors of it and client

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devices can't all fully take advantage of it yet but there's some good news on

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the horizon as confusing as usb has been

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the new usb4 standard could make things

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simpler in the near future it has to use usbc and support a high speed connection

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of either 20 or 40 gigabits per second and yes there's an ore in there but

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combined with an increasing number of devices that support usb power delivery

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i hope that usb does become more universal soon but in the meantime

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please be sure to read reviews or spec sheets of gadgets you're interested in

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and know exactly what their capabilities are before you buy otherwise i just

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wasted all this time ranting for nothing but nothing grinds my gears

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