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over the course of the last few years
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Chromebooks have continued to ditch
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ports in general across the board to the
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point where a lot of devices like the
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pixel ago sitting right here actually
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just have two ports and both of those
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ports are the same thing a USB type-c
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but for a lot of users coming over from
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windows devices and maybe older laptops
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they're not really sure exactly how to
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go from that USB type-c to actually
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outputting on the screen and just
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recently I had a conversation with a
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friend where they just weren't even sure
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what to do with that USB type-c port so
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we want to talk about that for today's
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Chromebook tip Tuesday while USB type-c
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can do basically everything I mean
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honestly it could be the port that just
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replaces every other type of cable it
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can handle video it can handle audio it
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can handle data transfer it can handle
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charging I mean literally we could use
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USB type-c for everything we use a cable
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for and not have to have any other type
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of adapters the issue kind of comes up
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in standards there's all kinds of
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different standards for data transfer
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speeds and there's different standards
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for charging speeds and there's
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different standards for some of the
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visual outputs and and audio outputs so
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you need to know exactly what it is
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you're going to buy with all these
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competing standards with charging and
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audio and all that kind of stuff it can
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get a little bit confusing to try to
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figure out the easiest way to go from
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USB type-c to HDMI but fortunately this
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is one area where USB type-c seems to be
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kind of settled in at this point and in
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general we've found that most of these
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Doc's like this or even just the
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adapters that just have a USB type-c and
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an HDMI on them all seem to work just
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fine now you'll see some differences on
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Amazon or Best Buy or anything like that
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between these so there's some that are
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nice and slim like this it's small it's
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easy to put in a bag but it doesn't have
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a lot of port selection here you've got
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your HDMI that's gonna handle your video
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stuff you've got one USB type a and
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that's gonna handle any peripherals you
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have like a mouse or keyboard something
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like that then you've got a power
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pass-through which allows your charger
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to also pass through this single USBC
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connection but then from companies like
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o WC you get a slightly larger version
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of the same thing but you get an
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additional USB type-a then over here you
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get a SD card slot and there going to be
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other docks that have even more ports
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and all that kind of stuff so you kind
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of just got to look around decide how
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I want the doc to be how much do I want
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it to extend my functionality but for
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today we're really just talking about
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getting the display from your Chromebook
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onto a television and honestly any of
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these things works you just need some
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sort of adapter to make that transition
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from your small screen to your large
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screen and I would say go on Amazon and
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just pick the one that looks best for
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the price and extends all the functions
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extra functions that you want to get out
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of your dock or adapter but guys that's
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