keyboard and mouse via hub for Macbook?

As mouse and keyboard are low power devices, a passive hub will work for both devices.

wannabeartist said:

Thanks,

Ok, so there's no risk of breaking anything, then (I guess not if I buy a non-powered hub)? - I'm just asking, because I read somewhere that someone fried his iMac with a "wrong" kind of hub...

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I used passive USB hubs before with my Macs and had no problems. I actually never used an active hub before, only with work machines where the computer was in another room than the monitors and input devices.

I would like to know, how one can fry an iMac with such low voltage/ampere devices like a passive hub. USB 2.0 uses a maximum of 5.25 V and 100 mA, not very much to fry a whole Mac.

It sounds like that guy was having a case of operator error. He obviously didn't know much about macs.

You shouldn't worry, I used a 7 port powered belkin up on a MacBook air for months and it worked our just fine!