everyone is making notebooks thinner at the expense of onboard IO the writing's
on the wall the future is going to be a
dongle full one so I can either live in
denial or I can make your dongle shopping whether you self-identify as a
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video description let's take a quick look at all the contenders for dongle
King I ordered from Amazon you'll find links in the video description before
moving on to Performance in order of
cheapest to most expensive this gting
product may have multiple typos in the product description but with its promise
of three USB ports and a wired gigabit
network connection for 18 bucks it
definitely needed a closer look the mochin USBC to USB 3 adapter caught my
attention because at only $20 it offers
four USB ports and a female type c to
handle higher draw devices or charging
pass through this VG a and USB hub from
AI stood out as a great option for
business since it still has four usb3
ports and adds VGA for the boardroom
projector for only $6 more or quite a
lot more if you want the HDMI version an
HDMI option for less than that one this
QE Trend adapter looks like a pretty
good deal at $28 as long as you don't expect to add a
ton of USB devices then if you want to
add SD card reader functionality you're looking at stepping up to this model
from Lambo or hm I actually ordered the
same product from two different brands to see if they were truly identical and
they are I also picked up this unit from hu
because of its solid reviews and availability in rose gold even though it
seems a little overpriced on paper and
finally there's the Le I ordered a couple of months ago for my Blade laptop
the tedious shopping experience for which inspired this video the Juiced
systems bizub so we'll start with what all the
devices have in common they are all lower cost USB 3 not Thunderbolt 3
meaning bandwidth and power delivery are
both limited so don't expect to plug in
multiple high power devices and get get the full experience unless you invest in
an external power brick my attempts to
get around this with another port on the
laptop my attempts to get around this with another port on the laptop like
I've seen with some external drives in the past were unsuccessful though your
mileage may vary they all feel reasonably well built with everyone
except Ai and Moen opting to take it a
step further with a metal housing and every single one of them was completely
driverless on both PC and Mac this is
especially important for network cards or SD readers where you might be
plugging them in for the first time out in the field where there's no Wi-Fi to
download a driver from Windows update
all the dongles have a short pre-attached cable eliminating one point
of failure and some manufacturing cost
but making them a little bulkier to store and meaning you can't repurpose
the included cable to charge your phone in a pinch and all but the cheapest
dongles used a single continuous metal
jacket for the housing of the connector instead of this less expensive type now
let's talk about the differences for my USB transfer test I used Angel Bird's
SSD to go pkt 1 tbte the angel bird
folks provided us with these for video editing when we're at shows and they are
lit AF they have excellent performance consistency and gave me easily
repeatable results every Hub performed
nearly identically with my 10 gbyte test
file taking about 30 seconds to transfer from the SSD to the desktop curiously
Apple's MacBook Pro USB 3 Performance was better across the board than the
Razer Blade late 2016 when transferring between ssds the
more robust hubs flexed their muscles a little bit not necessarily in terms of
speed but in terms of completing the race at all I'll forgive requiring extra
wall power to handle a couple of ssds
but Hutu moin and Q Trend all failed
this test miserably for a variety of
reasons as for HDMI output all of these
hubs are HDMI 1.4 so up to 4K 30 htz and all but the Q
trend performed exactly as expected with that one working on the PC but not on
the Mac for some reason all the hubs with SD card readers were able to max
out our 90 megabyte test card from
Kingston no one was trying to sneak a USB 2 card readership in there which was
nice but the same can't be said for
Ethernet if you were hoping for full gigabit speeds the gting is too good to
be true it's faster than 100 megabit but
not nearly as fast as the Juiced systems so conclusion time then I'm
feeling great about the choice I made with the Juiced systems Biz Hub it runs
a little warm and it's one of the most expensive but it's a compact onepiece
solution that saves me from carrying additional dongles for proper full-speed
gigabit Ethernet and reading SD and micro SD cards the AI adapters blew me
away with their power efficiency they were the only ones that could reliably
power two ssds on both Windows and Mac
OS without external power making the VGA
one a great option even if you pretty much just want a USB hub and the gting
gets my value award it doesn't have charging pass through or the highest
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