I don't think this is intentional to cut cost. I simply think that the chip was primarily made for devices with one port (iPhone, iPad) and this is a bit of an afterthought.

I wouldn't be surprised to see a future product with 2x USB 3.0 10 Gbps with DisplayPort support on the next generation, A19 Pro or A20 Pro maybe, if the product has enough success.

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bombcar 9 hours ago | parent [-]

This is going to be a primary complaint people have (even if it's not terribly important) - hopefully they have some circuitry that warns you if you're plugging something into the wrong port (e.g. a USB 3 device into USB 2 at slow speeds).

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happyopossum 8 hours ago | parent [-]

> This is going to be a primary complaint people have

No. Most people never plug in anything to their USB ports where they'd notice a speed difference. Definitely not people picking up a $600 MacBook for school or casual web browsing.

I'd bet 90% of folks never do anything other than charge through these ports...

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bombcar 6 hours ago | parent [-]

I don't think people will have many complaints about this thing, but I do think this will be one of the primary (even though it's basically a non-complaint).

It will definitely be used to justify spending $300-1500 more for a better laptop.

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happyopossum 4 hours ago | parent [-]

What do you think Neo users are going to plug in where they’d actually notice the USB speed differences?

	▲	bombcar 37 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Monitors, mainly (as if you plug it in the "wrong" one it doesn't work). Followed by the IT-nerd of the family always complaining to them. Again, I think it's a minor nit realistically, but people are going to harp on it.