I am Gary Zeller and I am the Product Director here at
Plugable Technologies. We are a Redmond Washington USA based
company that's been around for more than 10 years, and we make
USB, Thunderbolt, Bluetooth and charging devices that help you
connect this with that. We're here today with this nice new
2020 Macbook Air with the apple M1 CPU, it's a great machine
super light, super powerful, great battery life.
However, it only has two Thunderbolt ports with USB-C
connectors.
So how do you connect a multitude of things to this
great machine that only has two ports?
Well, for some a Docking Station solution is a great choice. We
certainly make many different options if that's what you're
interested in. And we have another video just on that topic
that goes into that with more detail. Uh, but for many people
who are looking for something that's a little bit of a more
simple, straightforward setup or something that takes a minimal
amount of space. Uh, we have a couple of other great options
that allow you to add a single monitor and multiple USB devices
and a charger all through one of your two ports.
So what we have here is our USB-C 7IN1 multi-function hub.
First and foremost, you can plug in your USB-C charger from Apple
or, uh, any other PD compliant USB-C charger, and they plugged
into this USB-C port right here and passes through charging
right through to your host, uh, through this single cable, um,
without the need to consume a, one of the USB-C ports all by
itself, just for charging.
You've got SD and micro SD card slots for media.
We've got an HDMI port here to connect to your external monitor
up to 4k at 30 Hertz or lower resolutions, uh, at 60 Hertz.
And then we have three USB 3.0 ports for any USB device that
you'd like to connect, uh, whether it's a high performance
device, like a USB flash drive or external storage for backup,
for some users, they'll never use this many ports and that's
perfectly understandable. We have another option. That's a
little bit of scaled back version, which is our
USBC-MD103, offers, HDMI output, USB-C charging input and a USB
3.0 port.
You just need those basic essential features, and of
course you can connect a USB 3.0 powered hub. If you'd like to
add more USB ports to this and kind of create your own mini
docking station solution.
One thing we haven't yet covered is users who want to connect
just a single display to one of those USB-C ports on their new
Macbook. Uh, we have a full line of USB-C video dongles and
cables.
If you follow it, Plugable at all. You know, we obsess about
the technical
details. Uh, we talk about the chip sets that we're using and
the features that we, that we offer that aren't available on
some similar products out there. And this is a great example of
why that attention to detail matters from an end-user
perspective. It's not just because we don't want to make
sure the chip said it has certain features it's because it
offers a better experience for users. Uh, this USBC-7IN1E and
this USBC-MD103 multifunction adapter, uh, both have current
chip sets that support PD 3.0 well, what does that mean? Well,
it allows you to, uh, plug or unplug your charger from the
USB-C hub without everything else attached to the device
going offline while it switches from external power to bus
power. Uh, most of the other adapters on the market, uh, use
a older controller chip set that supports PD 2.0. And doesn't
allow you to do that. If you plug or unplug your charger into
one of these hubs with an older chip set, all of your devices
are going to go offline well that device essentially power
cycles. By
obsessing about the details and using latest chip sets with the
features that we know are forward-looking, we're able to
offer these products that right out of the box are compatible
with these new Mac platforms.
So if you'd like more information about the products
that we've tested on the new Macbooks, those test results or
additional technical details or information, please feel free to
check out our website. And of course, if you have any
questions, you're welcome to leave them in the comments
below, or reach out to us via email support@plugable.com and
we'll be happy to help. Thanks.