hey everyone ricky here from Ricky's tech talk in today's video, i want to share a product from
lamarrelle this is their new 181 USB-C hub which I can't wait to pair with my mac mini
and new MacBook pro but let's begin with a good old-fashioned unboxing on the front of the box it
just shows your lamarrelle USB-C hub and dimensions it's an 8 in 1 USB-C hub multiple adapter turning
around to the back again it just mentions what it is sharing what some of the ports are
and it has their social media links and a support email if you do need to get in touch
if you do have any questions though leave a comment below but let's see what we get in the box
so what you need to do is just turn it around and at the top, there's a little tab that you just need
to pull out and you'll have some packaging inside here so we have our lamarrelle hub and then also
you do have a little bit of paperwork and this could be used as a bookmark if you want to so
that's a nice little effect there but that's everything you get in the packaging so let's
just take this out and then actually connect it up so taking a closer look at our lamar rail product
here it is in space grey aluminium you've got a short USB-C cable so that USB cable is handy as
it is reversible it has certain power through as well so 100-watt power through option i really
like that option you've got your usb 3s you've got a micro sd card you've got a couple of
UBC's and then like i said you've got your usbc cable and you've got HDMI at the end as well
so the benefits of a usbc is it's reversible it'll fit in either way it's short which means if you do
have to use this with your MacBook you haven't got a long cable trailing you may have a few
cables trailing out which I'll show you a bit later on, so let's discuss our HDMI port first
so HDMI ports as you know can expand your display or you can mirror a display and it can be used so
this is a HDMI port that supports 4k UHD or 1080p full HD depending on your device you're using
full resolution video display which I think is really important and especially if you need to
extend your display as i show with my macbook pro and also then with the mac mini plugging in to an
an external display or if i wanted to i could use the two ports now available one on here and one on the
mac mini to extend my displays even more this can be used with a hd tv monitor or projector
moving on let's take a closer look at other ports first of all you've got your micro sd
and sd card slots this can be used for a range of different products that come from your camera
that could come from the Nintendo switch that you could use it with your iPad and you can use it with
other options to share your images or content on so i really do like that option of having a
standard sd card slot and a micro-sd card slot that's really important to see next up is your
three USB ports please note on these they say USB 2.0 for two of them and USB 3 on the first one
when you come nearer the top where the cable is and with the speeds tested this was correct so
it's not three USB threes but two USB 2's and one USB 3 port moving around to the other side
we are going to see then two USB c ports one is a power delivery port up to 100 watts so this could
then charge your MacBook if you want to and then your other is a data connection one so connecting
either an iPad to charge or transfer data or as you can see using my t7 Samsung SSD we can connect
that in and you can use that then to transfer files if you want to this will work with mac os
it works with windows ios android Linux any operating system and requires no driver plug-in
and play which makes it easy and simple to use and that's one thing i like about it i've talked about
the ports let's just share a bit of my personal use and it's been really helpful actually as a
content creator, we are always looking at different ways of getting our media onto our main device
for them bringing content together to show you like this video so this is where it comes in
really handy so as you can see it's charging my AirPods for me that's really good i like to use
them when filming or when listening to music it's charging my Samsung galaxy z flip for me as well
that was the phone i was using at the time it can be used to charge my iPad if i wanted to
with a hundred power watts delivery system it can even charge the MacBook if i wanted to which is
really helpful it charges my apple watch it also charged the Samsung galaxy watch 4 as well which
i was testing i've only got two wrists so i need two watches but hey ho we've got a watch for each
wrist as you can see we've got the sd card which can come from a camera so for any videographers
or any photographers out there that want to take their content immediately from their camera to
the MacBook pro or the mac mini that doesn't have a the port on them some of them do now which is really
good to see but some don't so you can take that sd card plug it in straight away you'll see your
images crisp clean and then you can edit them and away they go so I really like that option if you
want a larger display you can connect a hdmi cable and you get up to full hd resolution as you see
i connect it up to my monitor and sometimes i have multiple monitors and having multiple HDMI
ports that really helps as well the USB hub side was okay so you did only have two USB 2s and one
USB 3 ports but that's okay that's fine i can live with that, the USB-C ports are the main thing having
that 100-watt power delivery option and then your data ports is really helpful that really makes
easy transfers because i archive all of my videos i create so it's nice to put them in folders and
some of them are quite large the styling design is really nice as well it's quite elegant it
looks smart it'll fit next to my MacBook pro very nicely in the space great aluminium feel
it feels professional it feels good quality the USB cable is held up well with twisting folding
putting in different angles been in and out of my bag has been on the go been at home connected to
the mac minis i said connected to the MacBook pro upstairs downstairs and it's just survived
which is good i like a product that survives so if you do have any questions or queries, please
leave a comment down below i will be more than happy to help where possible currently at the
time of filming this is available on Amazon UK for 32.99 i will leave a link in the video description
so you can go and find out more for yourself but if you do have any questions
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