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The Cool Kingston Nucleum 7 in 1 USB-C Hub REVIEWED!
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May 29, 2025
Lots of companies have tried to produce a must-have USB-C hub for laptop users, but as a MacBook Pro owner, I can attest that they all seem to have problems or issues. Until Kingston introduced the Nucleum 7-in-1 USB-C hub. Live tests on camera show its versatility and highlight the many connectivity options too. Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks out the Kingston Nucleum 7-in-1 USB-3.0, HDMI, USB-C, SDCard and MicroSD card reader and finds it works great, even with lots plugged in... Learn more: http://amzn.to/2ELk5aJ
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meliss device solve all your port woes
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on your USBC computer let's check it out
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Dave tail here again and this time I'm
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looking at USB C hubs now MacBook Pro
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Retina screen touch bar all that right
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wonderful device I really like this
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computer but USB see only four USB ports
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two on each side and that's all I got
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fact is I need to plug in more things
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than that enter the Kingston nucleus
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that's this guy and it's already plugged
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into a lot of stuff so let's just start
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there it is a seven and one USB C hub
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that gives you two USB 3.1 ports two USB
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sea ports one of which actually will
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loop pass-through charging one SD card
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reader one micro SD card reader and on
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the very end an HDMI plug that supports
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4k it's HDMI 1.4 now only limitation I
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think is really important for you to
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know is that the USB C charged through
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is only maximum of 60 watts you can see
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that here in this image from the
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Diagnostics on the Mac I have an 87 watt
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charger plugged in but it's giving me 60
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watts now what's important though is how
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fast is the whole thing so I have
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everything plugged in I have an external
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hard drive I have a flash drive I have
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an SD card I have a micro SD card what
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else do I have plugged in here I have
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charging I have power and I have a USB
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microphone so testing it all out
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everything works simultaneously works
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great let's go ahead and do a file copy
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and see how fast it goes going from the
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hard disk to the flash drive so ready
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let's go ahead and do that so you can
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see all four devices are neatly lined up
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on the left side the SD card micro SD
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card the My Passport
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ere is the hard drive and the 8 GB is
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the flash drive so let's go ahead we
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already have the My Passport open and
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I'm going to take here let's
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this is a 1.7 gigabyte file let's just
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copy it onto the flash drive and see how
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long it takes so I have to move the
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progress bar over so estimated time
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remaining I'm expecting this is to take
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a little while let's see the Mac is
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thinking about it okay six minutes we're
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not gonna wait six minutes but the point
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being is that it is chugging along it
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would actually be faster actually it is
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speeding up as it goes as it gets into
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file caching but it would actually be
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faster to copy it to the hard drive on
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the computer and then copy that to the
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flash drive I'm guessing that would be a
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faster copy but in any case you can see
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everything's working simultaneously and
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even while that's going on
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are we going on we can open up the SD
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card which is empty we can open up the
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micro SD card which has some content in
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it and everything is accessible even
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though I'm busy copying and so you know
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that data path is it's going from the
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hard drive onto the computer back out
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onto the port and back out onto the hard
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drive so there's a lot going on here but
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you know what pretty cool it's all
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working so that's really nice let's go
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ahead and I'm just gonna stop the copy
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cuz you don't really need to watch this
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happen for four minutes and let's go
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back to me being on camera not too bad
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you know maybe that 1.7 gigabyte file
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was not the best test in the world but
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you know what so it goes now let's
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unplug it and no I didn't unmount
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anything so yeah I know probably worst
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case scenario as far as the computer is
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concerned but let's just unplug stuff
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because why not right so here's the
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device and it's small it's really
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insanely well made that plug that's the
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nicest strongest most durable plug I've
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ever seen for USB see really nice job
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with that one Kingston and then if we
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look on the sides on this side you see
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the regular USB seen on charging you can
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see that by the graphic plus one USB 3.1
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plus micro and SD card readers they're
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both in there
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and then on the end HDMI nothing
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exciting there and on the other side we
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have another USB 3.1 and the USB C that
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supports charging so that's all there is
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really easy it's something where you can
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easily carry it with you put it in your
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computer bag whatever and it's just
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gonna be a rockstar for you and my
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feeling based on the engineering and
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based on Kingston's track record
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this thing's gonna last forever there
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are no downsides to this I'm really a
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fan now the price it is not the cheapest
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one on the market you can look on Amazon
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and you can find ones for half the price
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from unknown Chinese vendors that might
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or might not work so my perspective is
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it's better to spend a little more and
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get one that you know is gonna be really
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good enter the Kingston nucleon
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now before I tell you the price which is
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all we have left before I tell you that
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though go ahead and click on that
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subscribe button and if this video is
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useful and interesting to me a thumbs up
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and really appreciate that too cool now
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kingston nucleons 7 + 1 USB C hub $79.99
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at amazon.com
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sounds a little spendy but honestly just
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individual dongle adapters like HDMI
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that's like 40 bucks right there so to
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get all of these in one unit that's
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really has a nice feel it's very well
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made it's kind of last forever that is a
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win-win so I tell you this is definitely
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something worth checking out and I'll
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catch you in my next video
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