Mac Dongles. Problem solved, and i'm Lovin' it! Lemorele USB C Hub

Mac Dongles.

This is the Lemorele 6 in 1 USC-C Hub Multiport Adapter Amazon UK (affiliate link) https://amzn.to/3DsEZFu Amazon US (affiliate link) https://amzn.to/3Dozx6k

Dongles. If you’ve ever used a reasonably modern MacBook, or thought about buying one and done a little research, you’ll have most likely realised that its USB-C city out there, a port that’s not compatible with anything.

Hyperbole I know, but listen to anyone with barely any experience on a Mac and they’ll tell you that using one is basically just carrying around a sack of adapters so you can connect anything from displays to hard drives, from SD Cards to Parallel port Dot Matrix printers. I mean damnit, its almost impossible to find a Mac that will natively use a floppy disk these days.

But you know, its possible to just keep one thing in your bag and get pretty much all the functionality you need. Something like the 6 in 1 hub that Lemorele sent me to take a look at.

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I do get it. People use MacBooks as their only computer pretty often, whether they’re at the desk at home or on the go, and since M1 was released last November, the amount of speed combined with pretty insane battery life has meant that even Apple’s cheapest MacBook Air is enough for the vast majority of users.

While here in the tech space many YouTubers complained that they could only run a single external display with an M1 MacBook Air or MacBook Pro, for many people the only time they ever connect to another display is if they need to present something at the office or a sales meeting, or maybe connecting to a TV to watch a movie on your Laptop.

Well this hub uses just a single USB-C Thunderbolt port on your Mac, splitting it out to an HDMI port that does support ultra 4k resolution, 3 USB-A 3.0 ports, and an SD Card/ TransFlash card reader (Which I think is just the name of the micro SD Card from a quick Google, who knew!).

As the M1 MacBooks at least all have a pair of those thunderbolt ports on the one side, you can still charge the Mac directly while using the hub, while a lot of hubs that plug in directly take up both ports, and while they allow pass through charging there have been issues with charging via hubs on M1 Macs. Its pretty much fixed now in MacOS, but the issue was pretty severe and resulted in a fair number of bricked laptops, so this side steps that issue entirely.

This also makes a great single connector solution for docking your MacBook at the desk, whether at home or the office. That one USB-C connector could connect you to desktop hard drives, maybe an external keyboard and mouse if you find those more comfortable, giving you a full desktop experience while you’re there and the ability to unplug and take your main machine with you when you’re on the ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XfYqmDdWDc