A laptop isn't just a personal, daily workhorse. It's your portable home base with access to personal documents, work documents, family photos and videos, favorite music, movies, and more. That's why it's critical your trusty machine has everything you need whether that's important software, a speedy Wi-Fi module, or a 15-inch 4K screen. While you're deciding on storage, RAM, screen size and resolution, and processor for your next laptop don't forget about the ports.
A laptop's port selection can vary from one, single USB Type-C port, to a ridiculous number ports lining up and down every side of the chassis.
Whether it's one or 11, it's not so much how many ports you have, but the quality of those ports. We've put together a list of the three critical USB ports that you simply cannot do without in 2021. Why three? As laptop makers fight to make their clamshells thinner and thinner the actually space for ports gets smaller and smaller. With choice being restricted these are the three ports we believe must be there. This list will not include basic items such as a headphone jack or the connection for your power adapter since those items go without saying. Here, then, is our take on the three ports everyone must have.
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