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The Slick QacQoc USB-C Hub for MacBook Pro -- REVIEWED!
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May 30, 2025
Everyone who owns a 2016 or 2017 Apple MacBook Pro knows the frustration of having four USB-C ports and nothing else. Much of the time it's no big deal, but every so often you need to plug in a USB-3.0 device, read off an SD Card or even connect to a TV or second monitor via HDMI. How many $#@%#$ adapters should you need? Enter the QacQoc USB-C Hub, a sleek device that tucks a lot of capabilities into a device not much bigger than a pack of gum. Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ plugged the USB-C hub into his MacBook Pro for testing and, well, you'll see, it mostly all worked fine. Mostly. Learn more on Amazon: http://amzn.to/2xkaUVV
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can this little device solve all your
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missing port blues let's find out Dave
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Taylor here and this time I'm looking at
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USBC yes my new MacBook Pro now for
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everyone that has one of these you know
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oh it's all USB see so all the old USB
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connections HDMI SD cards all that other
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stuffs gone now on the upside you get
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four equal ports and you can charge from
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any of them which I kind of like I can
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plug it in on either side depending on
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how everything is configured but there's
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a lot of missing connections so you end
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up having all these dongles and adapters
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and you have to buy new cables and all
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this stuff instead this is a really cool
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little device this is from a company
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called kwak kwak that's how they told me
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they pronounced it and it's a USBC hub
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specifically for 2016 and 2017 MacBook
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Pros as you can see it has two USB C
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connectors this turns out to be really
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interesting so I'm gonna unplug my
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charger it's an 87 watt charger I'm
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gonna plug this in with both of the
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connectors as you can see it's an
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extremely snug fit it is clearly
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designed for exactly this and now the
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first and perhaps most exciting test is
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that I'm going to plug my charger in
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again and it's not only going to
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continue charging but it's going to
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continue charging at 87 watts you can
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see here the system configuration app
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can tell you exactly what amount of
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power is coming in to the actual
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computer so that's really cool by itself
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a lot of these can only handle the 60
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watts so this is a faster charge but
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let's unplug this for a second and let
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me tell you about the different
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connectors so going from this side you
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have two USB sea ports one of them is
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the charging port and it's denoted a
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little lightning bolt on it
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and that's actually a Thunderbolt 3 port
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but it's not compatible with quick
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charge so it works fine for your
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MacBooks but I guess there's other
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devices that it could fit into I don't
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know I don't know what to deal with
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quick charges I've never heard of it it
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doesn't affect my macbook pro as far as
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I know and like I said my 87 watt
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charger works perfectly well now it also
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runs at 40 gigabyte Giga bits per second
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so it is Thunderbolt 3 and then you have
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two USB 3.0 ports and those actually
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let's see those are 3.0 not 3.1 and then
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we have another USB see and that one is
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actually the data or transfer port we're
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going to test all this stuff and then
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you have a micro USD and an SD card
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reader but we're not done yet because
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all those ports would be super cool but
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check what's on the end yes
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HDMI and not just HDMI but 4k HDMI at 30
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Hertz so that's the full deal and all of
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that is in this one compact little
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device which is fantastic because you
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have no idea how many cables and
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adapters this thing can replace in my
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computer bag very very nice
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but talking talking whatever let's plug
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it in and give it a test so I'm gonna
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plug it in and then I'm gonna plug in my
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charging cable and then let's see what
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else can we plug in I have my iPhone on
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an old HDMI cord of course HDMI is
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oriented so that has to happen if I plug
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that in and you can see well my phone is
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waking up but it has power it has it is
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seeing power now I have two hard drives
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I have an old hard drive from a previous
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generation of MacBook and this is in a
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little a really slick little Oh W CK er
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and it has regular USB so I'm going to
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plug that into the other USB port and
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then I have another hard drive this is a
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Western Digital and this one is USB C so
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let's plug it into the USB C port
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alright so we're going to load this
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thing down
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and we're not done yet because I have my
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camera so let's pop the SD card out of
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my camera and this is the little canon
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camera I've had for a long time and
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here's my SD card I'm gonna put that in
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too and let's see what happens okay and
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it should fit in come on you can do it
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maybe the other way maybe it's not oh
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there we go now my desktop I see canon
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that's the SD card I see my passport err
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which is the USB see I see 256 SSD
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that's this older Drive and I see my
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iPhone is certainly enough reporting
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that it's plugged in and charging and
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while all that's happening my computer's
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charging now if I had a second monitor
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I could easily plug it in via HDMI or of
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course plug that straight into the TV
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and then using the Mac OS settings I
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could have it mirror my screen or as I
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often do have it as a second screen I do
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this in hotels a ton I have a really
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long HDMI cord I plug it into the TV in
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the hotel and then I can control them
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watch whatever the heck I want that's
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just their crummy little channel line up
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so so much nicer you know and get things
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like Netflix and Hulu and Amazon video
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and all that stuff all right there on
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the big hotel TV without anything to pay
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an arm and a leg for their little rental
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service or anything really nice all of
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this is working it's all working great
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let's give it a quick speed test shall
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we so I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna
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spin the camera around so you can see
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what's on the screen can be just a sec
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okay I have all three drives and they're
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all open so this is the camera this one
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down here is via USB see and this one's
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via USB 2.0 and let's just do something
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nice and easy open up the camera and
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we'll just copy one of the folders onto
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the USB 3 Drive shouldn't take very long
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and it looks like it's chugging along
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and so the data is coming in and out
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through the same USB C hub so this is
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probably a worst case scenario in terms
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of how to copy data but it's still quite
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functional not breaking any land-speed
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records but SD cards aren't super fast
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anyway and hopefully when it's done we
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get here let's close this and now let's
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actually copy this onto the USB C Drive
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and let's see Oh looks like that drives
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having some problems which makes me sad
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so I guess we will just let's see what's
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going on here okay so here's this Drive
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I'm not sure what's going on here but
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let's try copying this onto the desktop
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and there we go so generally speaking I
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have to admit that I would probably be
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copying things onto my computer and then
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copying things onto the other drive I
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think we're probably stress testing this
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a lot but let's switch back to being on
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camera so there you go that was my test
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wasn't quite as smooth and elegant as I
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might like it to be but I just want to
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say that however you end up using it the
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fact that you can actually access all
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these ports and they're all a little
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snug that's actually maybe one of my few
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criticisms of this device but the fact
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that all these ports are so easily added
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with just this one device is fantastic I
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would get this just for the HDMI but the
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fact that it gives me all these other
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ports and connections is fantastic truth
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be told I don't often use my SD card and
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with a computer and you know I have a
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USBC connector for my phone and
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everything but when you need other ports
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and you're on your MacBook Pro this kwak
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kwak USB C hub is pretty darn nice now
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it's about four and a half inches long
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and just a smidge over an inch wide and
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there's pretty nice little packaging
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setup here and it
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does come with in the packaging a little
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leather case now I'm not gonna use this
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but a lot of people might it's a nice
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little case and certainly it certainly
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makes sense for you to keep it safe and
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protected so you slide it in here and
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now it's ready to live in your computer
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bag and you're ready to go so I will
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just say one more thing before we get to
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the price and that one more thing is
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please go ahead and click on the
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subscribe button so we can stay in touch
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excellent thank you now this originally
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was a hundred and ninety-nine bucks this
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is silver it also comes in gray it was
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originally a hundred and ninety-nine
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bucks but kwak kwak has reduced the
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price on amazon and its own website to
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$89.99 now considering that an HDMI
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interface is almost 50 bucks by itself
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to get this whole thing for 89 bucks
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even if you're only gonna use one or two
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ports at a time and not stress test it
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like I did that's okay it's still a
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great deal and a wonderful thing to keep
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in your desk at work or a wonderful
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thing to keep in your portable travel
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kit for your computer when you're on the
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road so this is Dave Taylor I'm gonna
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give this a thumbs up although like I
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said the ports are a little snug and I'm
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not entirely sure what happened with our
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file copy pretty sure that was a Mac
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hiccup more than a hiccup with the hub
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who knows and I will say I encourage you
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to check it out and I'll catch you in my
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next video
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