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iPhone Sync/Charge Cable w/ USB Hub Should Come Free With All MacBooks
July 12th, 2011
Apple’s laptops are slim and sexy, but their svelte figures come at a price, and I’m not just talking about how much they cost. Not only do they have too few USB ports – all of Apple’s laptops only have two USB ports, except for the 17″ MacBook Pro, which has three – the ports are also placed very near to each other, making it very easy to block one while using the other. Which is why I think Apple needs to make this the official design for their iOS cables:
I can hear MacBook and MBP owners going yesssss, yesssss. This is a three-port USB 2.0 hub joined to an iPhone/iPad charge and sync cable made by DITS. As someone who owns both an iPhone and a MacBook, I really really really need this cable. Now.
Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to be up on DITS’ online shop yet, so I can’t even tell you how much it costs. I really hope Apple turns their cables into something like this; hell even two ports would be welcome.
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I Fear Thats Not really helpfull as charging an iPhone or Even worse an ipad uses all the Power availabe, so a passive Hub is very limited in its use.
I haven’t personally tested the device so I can’t make any concrete defense, but I think even if none of the ports in the hub are powered, they’ll still be useful for transferring data from flash disks and other USB storage devices. :D
Or you could just get something like this…
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/usb-gadgets/e051/
Solves all your problems.
Yep, that works too. :D Although for iOS device owners like me the cable above is more portable, since it’s two peripherals in one.
Or you could leave Mac behind like I did and go back to PC. I got sick of spending so much of my money on shit for my Mac and not even being able to upgrade. When my G5 bit the dust I built my own PC for a third of the price of a new mac and it has a hell of a lot better specs. Same for my macbook. Sold it to some fan boy and bought a PC laptop for less than a third of the price. Don’t have issues with the usb ports or the charging cable, which I had to replace too many damn times on the mac at $80 a pop.
Or you could buy it from DealExtreme for $7.40
http://www.dealextreme.com/p/usb-2-0-3-port-hub-for-iphone-3gs-4-charger-white-68111?r=98237433
or buy a similar but different one for $5.36
http://www.dealextreme.com/p/high-speed-usb-2-0-3-port-hub-with-ipod-iphone-3gs-4-usb-data-cable-48556?r=98237433
Scott
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