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A New USB-C Dock For Your New MacBook

When the New 12″ fancy MacBook arrived, most of us fell in love with it, but this new MacBook came with just a single USB-C port and this was very disappointing for many of us.

Daniel Okafor
Daniel OkaforSenior AI Reporter
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A New USB-C Dock For Your New MacBook

When the New 12″ fancy MacBook arrived, most of us fell in love with it, but this new MacBook came with just a single USB-C port and this was very disappointing for many of us. But a firm called Satechi has a solution for this small problem, the company’s Type-C Hub Adapter sidles up to your laptop and turn this single USB-C port into a three USB-A ports, plus a SD card slot and microSD card slot.

The hub’s itself has a thin profile so it can looks like part of your MacBook, USB-C comes with three color that can match with your Apple, it can also work with Chromebooks or other devices that have  USB-C.

Price is $34.99 you can visit their website and looks like a good deal.

What option we have? If you think only one extra USB will be enough, there is a another option for you check this KickStarter project which called GoHub;

Simultaneous Ultra-Fast Charging, you can charge you phone directly from the MacBook’s power adapter, instead of from your MacBook, also you add up to 128GB storage to your MacBook, with nano-sized flash drives with ultra fast USB 3.1, up to 135 MB/s read and 56MB/s, check the kickstarter page of the device for further info.

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Daniel Okafor

Daniel Okafor

Senior AI Reporter

Daniel Okafor is the Senior AI Reporter at TrendinTech, where he covers large language models, machine learning research and the practical use of artificial intelligence across business and government. He previously reported on artificial intelligence for MIT Technology Review, covering the labs behind the current generation of frontier models and the policy debates in Washington and Brussels. Daniel holds a Master of Science in Machine Learning from Carnegie Mellon University and follows the research community closely, attending NeurIPS and ICML each year to speak with the people behind the papers. He has a particular interest in evaluation: how models are benchmarked, where those benchmarks fail and what that means for the companies betting on them.

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