Anyone using iMac / iMac Pro USB-C Hub?

[Shaggymax]

Anyone using this Satechi Type-C Hub? Pros or Cons? Everytime I standup and access the back i feel like im going to accidentally break something...

 

[loekf]

Had a similar one for my iPad Pro, scared the hell out of me. I'm always afraid I was damage the front-glass.

This one fits into the cooling vents at the bottom of the display ?

I always prefer something with a cable. I have now a USB-C hub with a cable for my iPad Pro.

For the iMac, I'm very old-school... so I still have a 13-port USB3.0 hub from Anker. I use one of the Mac's USB-C ports for a WD MyBook Duo. All my other peripherals are all type-A connectors.

I wish somemone would make a combined USB-C and USB-A hub with a total of let's say 12 ports.

 

[YatBob]

Anyone using this Satechi Type-C Hub? Pros or Cons? Everytime I standup and access the back i feel like im going to accidentally break something...

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I use it and have for over a year and have no issues with it, it does what it is supposed to do, has not affected cooling, although I do have to hold the bottom edge of the monitor when plugging/unplugging a cable

 

[mmomega]

I have that exact one on my iMac Pro at the office and probably about to pick one up for my iMac at home.
It is definitely quite handy and does it's job very well. The SD card slot gets the most use of anything and for me makes it worth it's cost.
Mine has been installed for close to 6 months. I've owned iMacs since 2001, 10 models since that and haven't had the feeling of damaging anything nor have they been damaged.
I actually still own every single model and they all work fine today though the 2001 is a bit slow on most websites so it just sits and looks pretty

 

[TheIntruder]

I can understand the convenience factor, but for me, it's not worth putting the hinge at additional risk from repeated movement it was probably never designed to handle.

The hinge and its clutches are subjected to a lot of torque from the weight of the computer, and it requires a complete teardown to replace, including fiddling with some small, potentially temperamental fasteners.

Apple had a program to deal with the failures, and while I'm sure the design has been improved since the early models with the plastic clutches, it's still fundamentally the same design.

I'd choose another solution.

 

[mmomega]

This has nothing to do with a hinge, it connects in to a USB-C port and the speaker grill.
It makes it to where you have to access the rear of the computer less and less than without it.

I apologize, I just do not understand the connection or concern of the two pieces together to cause a fault to occur.

 

[TheIntruder]

Then I guess you must live in a universe where Newton's Third Law doesn't apply.

 

[mmomega]

Yeah, still not with you there.
I am but a simpleton and you may not have the desire to explain this one out.

I live in the universe with my real-life statistics, I still currently have a late 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019 - 27" iMacs. With the 2009-2011 models being quite a bit heavier and going on a decade of use, have not experienced any physical issues.
Having hands on with multiple machines using them in my day to day personal and professional world, I am still not putting together where a product around 3.4 ounces is going to in anyway cause a failure of the hinge system on this mac.

I am completely sure someone has had an issue with a hinge but I am not one of those people across this many devices over this amount of time making it, for me, a non-issue.

TETO

either way. Ordered a second for my home iMac. delivering tomorrow.