USB hubs, docks and cables
USB hubs, docking stations and cables for laptops that arrived with two ports and a promise. Docks bring back displays, wired network and legacy connectors through a single cable to the machine.
34 units in this part of the catalog, $10.76 to $441.68.
Picking one of these
A hub without its own supply shares whatever the host port can give, which is fine for a keyboard and a mouse and not fine for two bus-powered drives. Powered hubs solve that. If a dock is going to drive displays, check what it can deliver back to the laptop as well, because a dock that undercharges the machine is a slow annoyance.
The same hardware turns up in more than one kind of room. These are the places this section gets used most:
- Gaming setups — A gaming machine with a discrete card and two or three displays pulls more from one outlet than most of an office does.
- Working anywhere — Work that moves between a truck, a site office and a kitchen table needs power that travels with it.
Not sure of the size
The load calculator adds up what you plan to plug in and leaves only the units rated to carry it with room to spare.
Run the numbers