If you going to play the game...
you should play at the highest level.
I've been saying for years Jack is finally catching up!
You may notice things are a little
different than usual around here.
Above me there's the cameras been it's hanging
there we rigged it up is it going to
fall down and destroy me it's quite
possible alright i hope not but I might
have to upgrade the insurance policy
this is a c500 this is like a cinema
camera in there is at least 25 pounds up
there today I've got an important video
to make and it's especially relevant
with me moving into the new space and
potentially having a new set up a new above
computer setup.
You guys probably know I've been using the new Macbook Pro.
This guy over here alright.
This one with
the touch bar and just USB type-c ports
Now.
Man have I been immersing myself in the
world of USB-C it's not all created
equal last night I was trying to connect various
peripherals to realize how many of these
USB-C cables that are out there
aren't actually 3.1 compatible so now
you're not getting video display of them
incompatible and so on.
I paid how much money for that laptop
and the USB type-c cable that connects
that comes in the box that powers it up
is USB 2.0 ? What is going on here man?
Ok I don't know, am I nitpicking?
I don't think so I'm just saying they
should have given up a better variety cables
'cause really this is a cable issue.
I like having that much throughput alright.
Each one of those is a thunderbolt three
capable port but this whole cable
situation requires some kind of
conversation so this video right here
I'm going to show you what are your
options when it comes to diversifying
the USB-C port whether it's on this
macbook pro or other devices other
laptops that strictly have type-c connectors.
Now in front of me,
I have a product this is a hub it's called HooToo.
HooToo.
Now if you had a judge a product
strictly by its name you might be a
little bit concerned at this point but
this thing it takes a single USB type-c
hopefully 3.1 cable and it gives you the
variety of outputs that you would have
had on the old macbook pro pretty much i
think it's i think it's identical
now they're not the only ones in the game
I got another one over here as well
this is called the chocolate hub it looks like a piece
of chocolate but this one goes a step
further because it actually adds Qi
wireless charging to the top part of the
hub so I'm going to be comparing the two
of these right here this one here is
going to add an SD card reader it's
going to add an hdmi port traditional
USBs your old peripherals audio
interfaces things like that you take
advantage of those now let's crack this
one open and see what it offers up
comparative to the chocolate hub you
know what i like about this too is this
another type-c connector on here so I
like this has an in-and-out so this one
it comes in a few different colors
silver gray gold graphite rose gold
they're hoping that you match it up to
finish you chose on your on your macbook
pro no Qi wireless charging on this guy
but this one does have the cable three
USB traditional USB ports here is the
one of them is super speed for faster
charging you've got that SD card slot
listen a lot of people who shoot video
on SD card this is very important to
them so that's there and then you've
also got hdmi port
I mean x4 video output right you want to
be on a TV something like this
your DC in.. in case you need a little bit
more juice i'm assuming this guy just plugs
in over here oh look at lights up Jack can
you pick that up
look at that flashing have you at this point solved
have you at this point solved
the biggest problem with the new macbook
simply by adding this dongle i guess so
i mean i guess in some ways it's more
versatile than then adding a bunch of
different cables and adapters and so on
like an independent dongle for each
peripheral this is kind of nice in that
sense it's all in one place but at the
same time these kind of large like look
at that I don't know you got this super
slim laptop is this really what you want
to carry around a lot of people would
probably be better served by just
picking up the adapter cable i know a
lot of people don't want to go out and
read by all these cables but in the long
run if you think about it it saves you
from having to remember a dongle and a
cable you just go into the cable
universe so the most complained about
thing when it comes to these laptops
beyond the fact that they're just
incredibly expensive is the fact that
you're giving up some of the port's you
had on the previous version
so here's a couple of devices I'll link
them down in the description to bring
back and potentially fix what some would
consider to be the biggest problem with
the new Macbook if you want Qi wireless
charging you got it here in the
chocolate version or maybe you're just
maybe you just get hungry you don't care
about that you can get something a
little bit smaller with the cable
already built-in from HooToo is the
HooToo like a tribe in Africa or something
probably not spelled like that it also
can I complain about something else is
that ok Jack do i have to stage here do I
have the microphone let me complain
about one other this is happening to me
all the time recently
I'm like this alright the hands are up
on here you know you're taking away
maybe you're in an email maybe you're
writing something you're about your
getting deep whatev.. whatever it is and
I just be thinking I lean back a little
bit and the finger will slip up onto the
touchpad and in the email client the
send button is right there you don't
have any emails i sent it just like end
at a particular word and i'm not even
done yet
that's happening to me lately so I mean
that's my issue i suppose i could turn
that off in particular apps and so on
but it's something to think about
you never know you might end up sending
the wrong email to the right person and
who knows where you go from there.