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There are so many to choose from - but looking for rugged one that I would be able to gig with any recommendations

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I've not tried too many, but the D-Link DUB-H4 is ok.

The thing to remember with a usb hub is that it will add some latency, how much will depend on what you have plugged into it. You canuse the DPC latency tester to check how much difference it makes:

http://www.thesycon.de/deu/latency_check.shtml

A better option might be either a PCMCIA or Cardbus USB card such as this:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Belkin-USB-2-0- ... pd_cp_ce_0

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Mslwte wrote:I had a pound on you ant :P x

Yeah I just wanted too see if Ant was awake or not


But Ant surely the card will draw the power away from the laptop >

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Ha, you all know me too well :?


It will draw power from the laptop, so if you are using the laptop from battery it will affect it. But if the laptop is on mains, which it really should be if you are performing live, it won't matter.

What it does do is add another bus. The maximum throughput on USB is per bus, not per port. Adding hub just shares out that throughput, rather than adding to it. It might not make any difference if you just have controllers on the hub, but if you have hard drives or audio interfaces it could make a really big difference. Also if your laptop's built in USB don't have individual USB busses it will just make things worse (I’m not sure if they still do this though).

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Mslwte wrote:I had a pound on you ant :P x

Yeah I just wanted too see if Ant was awake or not


But Ant surely the card will draw the power away from the laptop >

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Ok cheers - I was thinking off getting this
http://www.acerdirect.co.uk/Acer_5742_W ... on.asp#top

Any opinions - I could probable stretch too 600 if needed

Will be exclusive for Dj and live work

Ideally would like to run Live, Maschine and Traktor - with some virtual midi program - with my S4

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Yeah, that looks ok. The only thing I noticed is that it has the i5 430m, which is the old i5. The sandy bridge processors are a lot faster, infact an i3 sandy bridge has a good chance of being faster than an old i5.

For example (from here: http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php)

CPU Name................................Passmark CPU Mark.................................Rank
................................................(higher is better)...........................(lower is better)

Intel Core i5 460M 2.53GHz.................2327........................................347

Intel Core i3-2330M 2.20GHz................2749.......................................289

Take a look at these:

http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/Acer_Tim ... ersion.asp
http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/Lenovo_G ... ersion.asp



Or this has the sandy bridge i5, with 8GB Ram for £600

http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/Acer_Asp ... ersion.asp

Actually that last one is a lot better than the others.

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Looks like the last one seems to be it

Trust an IT guy to make me spend more money :)

Cheers Ant appreciate your knowledge as always

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Any recommendations in 2019 for USB + power hubs? Which one have hold up for a long time now @everyone who uses a usb hub on mac?

Need additional USB (3) at my macbook pro mid 2012 15'' (so regular type USB). Want to hook up my midi keyboard and launchpads again ^^

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https://juicedsystems.com/collections/u ... ollections

rock solid since... maybe 4 or 5 years. best usb hub I ever had, also the most expensive one.
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Oh damn, looking nice. Sadly either sold out or n/a in my region (The Netherlands). Also many look-a-likes in the USB Hub apparently.. Hard to find the good ones and ones that have their cables on the right side...


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