Ethernet Adapter Question

[BoxTurtle]

So a friend of mein has a Thinkpad X1 yoga Gen 4 and he needs a ethernet adapter for his laptop. The laptop has thunderbolt and usb ports so I could just get him a thunderbolt or usb-c to ethernet adapter. The thing is the thinkpad has a port on it specifally for ethernet. You can buy a adapter for the thinkpad that you plug into this special port. It is one labled 7 on in the image below. Well anyways I was wondering if there is any advantage of geting their adapter versus a thunderbolt or usb-c adapter that would cost half the price. 

 

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, turtlecraft said:

Well anyways I was wondering if there is any advantage of geting their adapter versus a thunderbolt or usb-c adapter that would cost half the price. 

Normally the integrated nics are better than usb ones, so often a bit faster, and less issues, and lower cpu usage. And you norally have fewer issues with things like pxe boot compared to using usb nics.

 

But for basic use a usb nic woudl work about the same.

[BoxTurtle]

2 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Normally the integrated nics are better than usb ones, so often a bit faster, and less issues, and lower cpu usage. And you norally have fewer issues with things like pxe boot compared to using usb nics.

 

But for basic use a usb nic woudl work about the same.

What is pxe booting exactly?

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, turtlecraft said:

What is pxe booting exactly?

network booting. Lets a computer boot from a server over the network.