USB-C
USB-C
A connector shape defined by the USB Implementers Forum. Power, data and video are separate capabilities, and the socket looks the same whichever it has.
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- USB Implementers Forum
- Screens naming it
- 5 of 14
- Stating a version
- 0
Connector words
Ports
A socket is a shape. Almost everything worth knowing about it — the version, the bandwidth, whether it carries a picture at all — is invisible from the outside and optional in the listing. These five pages take the words apart.
HDMI
HDMI
The connector has not changed shape across specification versions, so the plug fitting proves nothing about which version either end implements.
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- HDMI Licensing Administrator
- Screens naming it
- 13 of 14
- Stating a version
- 2
DisplayPort
DisplayPort
A VESA standard with its own connector and its own version numbers, which also travels over a USB-C socket as an alternate mode without changing its name.
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- VESA
- Screens naming it
- 5 of 14
- Stating a version
- 2
USB-A
USB-A and 2.4 GHz receivers
The rectangular port every receiver lands in. Wireless devices are not portless devices, and the running total is the thing almost nobody adds up in advance.
- Published by
- USB Implementers Forum
- Costs you
- a port
Bluetooth
Bluetooth pairings
Not a port at all. It costs no socket and requires something the machine either has or does not have, which no keyboard listing can tell you.
- Published by
- Bluetooth SIG
- Costs you
- a pairing