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doesn’t matter. My Samsung USB-C cable can charge your Surface tablet

and his Apple MacBook.

Second, you can already buy phones, tablets, and laptops that come with
USB-C jacks—from Google, Microsoft, Nokia, Apple, and others.

Eventually, the USB-C payoff will be gigantic, convenient, and universal.

In the meantime, we’re in for a couple of years of transition and fumbling
with adapters that accommodate all our old USB gear: flash drives, hard
drives, scanners, printers, cameras, and so on.

Other Jacks

At one time, the backs of PCs were pockmarked with all manner of crazy
jacks: serial ports, PS/2 ports, SCSI ports, parallel ports, keyboard ports.

Today, all these connectors are rapidly disappearing, thanks to the all-
powerful superiority of USB and USB-C.

Here’s what else you may find on the modern PC, though:

Video (VGA), DVI, or DisplayPort. These are all ways to
connect a second monitor or a projector. The older but widely

compatible VGA is a narrow female connector with 15 holes along
three rows. The DVI (digital visual interface) jack has 24 pins and

is designed for modern LCD screens. And DisplayPort, which is
intended to replace VGA and DVI (but retain compatibility via
adapters), looks like a USB jack with one diagonally clipped
corner.

HDMI. Handy! This kind of jack sends high-def video and audio
to an HDTV set or an external monitor.

SD card reader. Pop the SD memory card out of your camera and
straight into this slot to import the photos. Sweet.

Connecting New Gadgets