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PB PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Vancouver, BC
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2019-07-12, 23:32

Hubs are fine, unless of course your USB device is saturating the BUS. I’ve also never found a hub that doesn’t crap out after a year or so, other than the ancient USB1.0 hub we got for our G3 Power Mac in 1998 that is still in use today. Why? No idea, but it works, so why not since it’s fast enough for any keyboard and mouse.

For things like USB thumb drives, mice and keyboards hubs are great, not so much for data hungry connections. Less of an issue with thunderbolt, but let’s be honest, most people using USB hubs aren’t using thunderbolt and are limited to USB3.1 gen 1 or 2 speeds.

As for the computer, we know Apple will never make the DYI Mac some of us dream of. I make do with a hybrid Windows/Mac world. The OS is no longer the driving force of my purchase choice, as long as the computer does what I need it to do it’s fine.
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