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I expect the charger will be a USB hub.

by cjensen 12y ago

madeofpalk 12y ago
It's not. If you need expansibility and are running a large external monitor, that sounds pretty 'professional' to me.
- biafra 12y ago
  Currently Apple offers these two: http://store.apple.com/us/product/MJ1K2AM/A/usb-c-digital-av-multiport-adapter http://store.apple.com/us/product/MJ1K2AM/A/usb-c-digital-av... and http://store.apple.com/us/product/MJ1L2AM/A/usb-c-vga-multiport-adapter http://store.apple.com/us/product/MJ1L2AM/A/usb-c-vga-multip... Unfortunately both only have 1080p HD. Let's hope there will be a (mini-)DVI version with a higher resolution soon.
  - zaroth 12y ago
    Thanks for the links! Both of those are quite 'ewww' of course. So we have the "USB-C Charge Cable" $29 (http://store.apple.com/us/product/MJWT2AM/A/usb-c-charge-cable-2m http://store.apple.com/us/product/MJWT2AM/A/usb-c-charge-cab...) -- I wonder if that is proprietary or if any cable would work. Then there's the "USB-C Power Adapter" $49 (http://store.apple.com/us/product/MJ262LL/A/apple-29w-usb-c-power-adapter?fnode=51 http://store.apple.com/us/product/MJ262LL/A/apple-29w-usb-c-...). Too bad they can't fit 29W into the smaller cube form factor which charges my phone. That would be incredible powering a laptop off of that. Someone needs to create a much sleeker implementaion of a in-line 1-port hub. So basically something that looks like USB-C on both ends, but 4" from one side of the cable there's a quarter-sized circle of hard plastic that has the USB-C cable going through it, with another USB-C port available on the side. I hope we will see USB-C to HDMI and USB-C to DisplayPort "cables" which are not big fat massive dongles but really function more like just a cable.
ghostly_s 12y ago
surprised this wasn't addressed in the keynote. I can see a lot of clever Apple-y solutions to this problem.
- moe 12y ago
  surprised this wasn't addressed in the keynote. I can see a lot of clever Apple-y solutions to this problem. It wasn't addressed because Apple offers no solution (yet?).
madeofpalk 12y ago
It's not.
thrownaway2424 12y ago
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MJ262LL/A/apple-29w-usb-c-power-adapter http://store.apple.com/us/product/MJ262LL/A/apple-29w-usb-c-... No hub.

I expect the charger will be a USB hub.

by cjensen 12y ago

I expect the charger will be a USB hub.

madeofpalk 12y ago

It's not. If you need expansibility and are running a large external monitor, that sounds pretty 'professional' to me.

biafra 12y ago
Currently Apple offers these two: http://store.apple.com/us/product/MJ1K2AM/A/usb-c-digital-av-multiport-adapter http://store.apple.com/us/product/MJ1K2AM/A/usb-c-digital-av... and http://store.apple.com/us/product/MJ1L2AM/A/usb-c-vga-multiport-adapter http://store.apple.com/us/product/MJ1L2AM/A/usb-c-vga-multip... Unfortunately both only have 1080p HD. Let's hope there will be a (mini-)DVI version with a higher resolution soon.
- zaroth 12y ago
  Thanks for the links! Both of those are quite 'ewww' of course. So we have the "USB-C Charge Cable" $29 (http://store.apple.com/us/product/MJWT2AM/A/usb-c-charge-cable-2m http://store.apple.com/us/product/MJWT2AM/A/usb-c-charge-cab...) -- I wonder if that is proprietary or if any cable would work. Then there's the "USB-C Power Adapter" $49 (http://store.apple.com/us/product/MJ262LL/A/apple-29w-usb-c-power-adapter?fnode=51 http://store.apple.com/us/product/MJ262LL/A/apple-29w-usb-c-...). Too bad they can't fit 29W into the smaller cube form factor which charges my phone. That would be incredible powering a laptop off of that. Someone needs to create a much sleeker implementaion of a in-line 1-port hub. So basically something that looks like USB-C on both ends, but 4" from one side of the cable there's a quarter-sized circle of hard plastic that has the USB-C cable going through it, with another USB-C port available on the side. I hope we will see USB-C to HDMI and USB-C to DisplayPort "cables" which are not big fat massive dongles but really function more like just a cable.

ghostly_s 12y ago

surprised this wasn't addressed in the keynote. I can see a lot of clever Apple-y solutions to this problem.

moe 12y ago
surprised this wasn't addressed in the keynote. I can see a lot of clever Apple-y solutions to this problem. It wasn't addressed because Apple offers no solution (yet?).

madeofpalk 12y ago

It's not.

thrownaway2424 12y ago

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MJ262LL/A/apple-29w-usb-c-power-adapter http://store.apple.com/us/product/MJ262LL/A/apple-29w-usb-c-... No hub.