Reddit reviews 4 Port USB 2.0 Wireless Hub - Compatible with Windows XP and Vista not Windows 7

Kind of, there is a Wireless USB standard, but it is rarely used from what I can tell. There are however wireless USB hubs on the market.

That however only gives you USB->wireless->USB. Not aware of anything that could do Bluetooth. In most instances it would be cheaper to just get a wireless mouse&keyboard.

I agree on the keyboard and mouse - when I had a Macbook Pro, I found that both were excellent. I do know some people who use a Mac with external inputs though; not really sure why, personally, but to each their own.

I don't really have a problem with headsets either way. The jack for headphones is very small, and I personally don't do anything that requires ultra-high quality audio, so a bluetooth set works for me well enough.

>I commonly have both my USB ports filled.

Fair enough. Most of the people I know - by which I mean, all but one - rarely use external drives. The internal drives are so large now that it's actually challenging to fill them up.

>Does spotify have Yousei Teikoku yet?

Actually, my previous post was written from a more "general" outlook. I don't seem to be an especially musical person; I listen to music on occasion, but most of the time, I'd rather watch a TV show or movie, or just have silence.

Most of what I do listen to - and, I suspect, the majority of what most people listen to - is common enough to be on Spotify. After all, Spotify needs to make money, so they're going to chase the big names wherever possible.

Not to be rude, but it sounds like some of your tastes are more esoteric. There's nothing wrong with that, but it also means that your experience won't necessarily compare to other peoples. For most of the people who might buy this Mac, I'd bet that Spotify (or Youtube, or some other online service) could satisfy almost all of their musical cravings.

The same is also true of the anime films. Yeah, you're probably going to have to download those, until either Netflix expands enough to cover them (which I fully believe will happen, but not before this Mac is released) or another service appears to cover that niche. Like the music, I agree that your only choice is to download - but I also think that many if not most of the Mac target audience won't be doing that.

>I create just fine on my air.

There are a few things that require the iMacs. If I was starting a game studio, or something professional, then I would get those. Like you said, people in the movie industry need them.

I agree that for personal use, the laptops do just fine. I mean, stitching together some holiday photos or something is not really a big deal.

> USB sticks

With larger file sizes on emails and Dropbox, people seem to use those much less often. I have two myself, but it's been months since I used either. In fact, a friend of mine stole one almost a year ago and filled it with porn (running prank we have) and I'm not sure I ever actually cleared that off. That tells you how much I use them.

Again though, almost everyone I know don't use them often. That partly depends on company policy of course - many places, at least in the UK, refuse to let users plug USB sticks into the company computers, for fear of getting viruses.

I agree with your desire not to plug and unplug sticks when you're moving files. I actually have a USB hub I bought years ago, while I was on the Macbook Pro, so I could have two external hard-drives and two USB sticks all at once. I still use it now, but I could actually do without it. If I was being a strict minimalist, I'd probably pack it away, or just bin it. There is, as always, a slight conflict between "Want" and "Need". I would want to plug both my sticks in; I didn't (and don't) really need to.

So, the single USB port on this new Mac would be a nuisance, but not that often, and not enough to make this computer completely unusable for me.

>Does a Time Capsule hook up to my raspberry pi?

Honestly don't know, as I've not used Raspberry Pi. I don't see why you wouldn't be able to - the Time Capsule is just a wireless USB drive made by Apple. However, I know that you buy other wireless USB drives from other companies that should work.

In fact, between a wireless external hard-drive and a wireless USB hub - both of which I didn't think of last night, but occurred to me today replying to you and another commenter - you could actually get by without any USB ports in a machine.

You could buy as many wireless hard-drives as you liked, for games and anime and so on; and a wireless hub for USB sticks, and so on. You'd need to keep the hub close by for the game controllers, but otherwise, you could get by.

I'm not saying you should of course. I wouldn't want to splurge money needlessly, to accommodate a computer. However, personally, when my USB hub breaks, I'll get a wireless one (if I need one at all); and when my external hard-drives fail (I'm surprised one of them hasn't already, considering how old it is) I'll replace it with a wireless one. At that point, I'll be USB-free, except to charge occasional things.

Final thoughts:

>Games

My games are all either from Steam or GOG, so there's no risk of them disappearing. That's why I have the option of just deleting the files once I've played the game - I can redownload it later, when I want to replay. The Internet speed is a point - the UK is slowly being upgraded to 10 (possibly 12) Mbps. Our area was lucky and had it done early, but in a few years, everyone should have pretty solid Internet. I know the US is different, but I didn't think of that last night.

There are a few older games that aren't on either platform, so I'll download those eventually. But considering how little space I seem to use, I doubt it'll be a problem to store. Plus, as they're older, I suspect that all of them together will be less than 10GB.

>If you don't care about obscure media, only listen to popular stuff that's everywhere, don't care about quality, and generally don't do much work that's hard drive intensive on a frequent basis. Which I guess is most people.

Yeah exactly. Most people will fit what I described, and won't need many ports. That seems especially true as many of the Mac laptops seem to be bought by stay-at-home mums, and by parents for their college-aged children.

You have more of a case for needing extra USB ports. There are workarounds (like the wireless hub and wireless external drives, which I again hadn't thought of last night). However, you are also an exception to the rule. I don't mean that in a bad way, or anything, just that most people probably don't have your needs.

So, I stand by what I said. For the majority of users, a single USB port would be doable. There would be occasions when it's annoying, but mostly, it would be fine.

There are an array of wireless hubs that would fit your need. Sadly, I've yet to see a decent one.

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Kind of like this? But for usb-c i'm guessing.

https://www.amazon.com/Port-USB-2-0-Wireless-Hub/dp/B000UU46W8

But I really wonder why you would need one...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B000UU46W8?pc_redir=1406023815&robot_redir=1

http://www.amazon.com/Port-USB-2-0-Wireless-Hub/dp/B000UU46W8

All I could find that doesn't use an actual wifi network is this:

http://www.amazon.com/Port-USB-2-0-Wireless-Hub/dp/B000UU46W8

Edit: never mind, no drivers for Windows 10

This sort of thing?

http://www.amazon.com/Port-USB-2-0-Wireless-Hub/dp/B000UU46W8

I've not personally used it, and the reviews are mixed...

this and also