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everyone is making notebooks thinner at the expense of onboard IO the writing's

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on the wall the future is going to be a

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dongle full one so I can either live in

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denial or I can make your dongle shopping whether you self-identify as a

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Mac or a PC a little bit easier

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video description let's take a quick look at all the contenders for dongle

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King I ordered from Amazon you'll find links in the video description before

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moving on to Performance in order of

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cheapest to most expensive this gting

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product may have multiple typos in the product description but with its promise

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of three USB ports and a wired gigabit

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network connection for 18 bucks it

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definitely needed a closer look the mochin USBC to USB 3 adapter caught my

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attention because at only $20 it offers

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four USB ports and a female type c to

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handle higher draw devices or charging

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pass through this VG a and USB hub from

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AI stood out as a great option for

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business since it still has four usb3

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ports and adds VGA for the boardroom

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projector for only $6 more or quite a

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lot more if you want the HDMI version an

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HDMI option for less than that one this

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QE Trend adapter looks like a pretty

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good deal at $28 as long as you don't expect to add a

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ton of USB devices then if you want to

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add SD card reader functionality you're looking at stepping up to this model

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from Lambo or hm I actually ordered the

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same product from two different brands to see if they were truly identical and

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they are I also picked up this unit from hu

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because of its solid reviews and availability in rose gold even though it

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seems a little overpriced on paper and

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finally there's the Le I ordered a couple of months ago for my Blade laptop

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the tedious shopping experience for which inspired this video the Juiced

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systems bizub so we'll start with what all the

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devices have in common they are all lower cost USB 3 not Thunderbolt 3

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meaning bandwidth and power delivery are

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both limited so don't expect to plug in

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multiple high power devices and get get the full experience unless you invest in

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an external power brick my attempts to

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get around this with another port on the

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laptop my attempts to get around this with another port on the laptop like

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I've seen with some external drives in the past were unsuccessful though your

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mileage may vary they all feel reasonably well built with everyone

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except Ai and Moen opting to take it a

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step further with a metal housing and every single one of them was completely

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driverless on both PC and Mac this is

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especially important for network cards or SD readers where you might be

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plugging them in for the first time out in the field where there's no Wi-Fi to

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download a driver from Windows update

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all the dongles have a short pre-attached cable eliminating one point

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of failure and some manufacturing cost

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but making them a little bulkier to store and meaning you can't repurpose

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the included cable to charge your phone in a pinch and all but the cheapest

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dongles used a single continuous metal

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jacket for the housing of the connector instead of this less expensive type now

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let's talk about the differences for my USB transfer test I used Angel Bird's

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SSD to go pkt 1 tbte the angel bird

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folks provided us with these for video editing when we're at shows and they are

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lit AF they have excellent performance consistency and gave me easily

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repeatable results every Hub performed

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nearly identically with my 10 gbyte test

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file taking about 30 seconds to transfer from the SSD to the desktop curiously

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Apple's MacBook Pro USB 3 Performance was better across the board than the

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Razer Blade late 2016 when transferring between ssds the

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more robust hubs flexed their muscles a little bit not necessarily in terms of

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speed but in terms of completing the race at all I'll forgive requiring extra

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wall power to handle a couple of ssds

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but Hutu moin and Q Trend all failed

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this test miserably for a variety of

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reasons as for HDMI output all of these

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hubs are HDMI 1.4 so up to 4K 30 htz and all but the Q

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trend performed exactly as expected with that one working on the PC but not on

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the Mac for some reason all the hubs with SD card readers were able to max

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out our 90 megabyte test card from

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Kingston no one was trying to sneak a USB 2 card readership in there which was

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nice but the same can't be said for

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Ethernet if you were hoping for full gigabit speeds the gting is too good to

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be true it's faster than 100 megabit but

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not nearly as fast as the Juiced systems so conclusion time then I'm

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feeling great about the choice I made with the Juiced systems Biz Hub it runs

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a little warm and it's one of the most expensive but it's a compact onepiece

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solution that saves me from carrying additional dongles for proper full-speed

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gigabit Ethernet and reading SD and micro SD cards the AI adapters blew me

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away with their power efficiency they were the only ones that could reliably

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power two ssds on both Windows and Mac

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OS without external power making the VGA

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one a great option even if you pretty much just want a USB hub and the gting

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gets my value award it doesn't have charging pass through or the highest

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performance but it's really Compact and cheap if you just want more USB ports

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