Scientific/hobbyist applications where you want to direct connect a lot of data collection sensors.
Or
Developers working with embedded devices who want to have many connected at a time.
Sometimes with speciality hardware hubs can give you issues, or if you need higher overall bandwidth per device they need a connection to the actual controller.
25 ports is a lot, but I can see anyone making music or streaming wanting this. Keyboard, mouse, microphone and camera (sometimes multiples of both,) controllers, phone, tablet, stream deck, external drives, etc.
The headline is a touch sensational- nine of them are bare headers on the motherboard for the front of the case. The I/O shield ‘only’ has 13 type A and three type C.
I would be interested if I was building a new pc. This would make connecting all of my SIM rig nice and easy, as well as my other controllers and peripherals. It is a bit excessive, but I have no doubt every port would end up used.
Genuinely curious: what’s the use case?
I can see a couple cases:
Scientific/hobbyist applications where you want to direct connect a lot of data collection sensors.
Or
Developers working with embedded devices who want to have many connected at a time.
Sometimes with speciality hardware hubs can give you issues, or if you need higher overall bandwidth per device they need a connection to the actual controller.
None of these touch the normal consumer though.
I could connect all my electronic music gear without hubs. Fun times to get cabling right though.
25 ports is a lot, but I can see anyone making music or streaming wanting this. Keyboard, mouse, microphone and camera (sometimes multiples of both,) controllers, phone, tablet, stream deck, external drives, etc.
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or for the price, get a motherboard with a shitload of USB ports.
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The headline is a touch sensational- nine of them are bare headers on the motherboard for the front of the case. The I/O shield ‘only’ has 13 type A and three type C.
I would be interested if I was building a new pc. This would make connecting all of my SIM rig nice and easy, as well as my other controllers and peripherals. It is a bit excessive, but I have no doubt every port would end up used.