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#1 2005-02-02 1:15 pm
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USB/Firewire Hub
In an effort to eliminate wire clutter, and/or to make it easy to unplug the PB from peripherals can anyone suggest a good USB 2.0/Firewire combo hub? I have 2 firewire drives, the isight, a scanner (usb), a zip drive, and that's about it since the printer will be hooked up to the airport express. I basically want to be able to plug in the hub to the firewire and usb ports so i only have to unplug 2 wires rather tahn 5 or so.
ty in advance.
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#2 2005-02-03 5:02 pm
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Re: USB/Firewire Hub
bumpin' this. I went to chump usa to look at the hubs, they had no combo ones but some belkin usb hubs. I'm still looking for a combo hub that has maybe 7 total ports for peripherals and you only need to connect 1 plug to each port (making for easy unplugging when i take the pb on the road). having it be self powered with a big powerbrick is totally cool, the pb doesn't need to drive it.
anyone?
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#3 2005-02-03 8:48 pm
Re: USB/Firewire Hub
Here is this cool hub that would match a powerbook 
http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000447029544
It's not cheap, but it's sexy 
Good artists copy; great artists steal.
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#5 2005-02-03 10:23 pm
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Re: USB/Firewire Hub
the paper hub is funny but not for me, I also don't think the dock is what i'm looking for. a simple combo hub would do. i found one from iogear that is a 4/3 port usb 2.0/firewire hub but there is no purchase info or price. i think it may be too new, but am unsure???
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#7 2005-02-09 7:35 pm
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Re: USB/Firewire Hub
Sorry, the price is around $60 I think. They were showing it at the booth at Macworld Expo.
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#8 2005-02-09 8:22 pm
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yeah that's the page at iogear that I saw, no price.
but 60 bucks isn't bad considering. i e-mailed them and they said it would be out in about 2 weeks or so.
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#9 2005-02-10 5:17 pm
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Re: USB/Firewire Hub
D-Link makes one on Amazon that got a good review in macaddict. Its small too. The reviews on Amazon were bad though.
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#10 2005-02-10 6:52 pm
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yeah i saw the d-link on newegg.com but didn't know anything about them, i'll look up the amazon link.
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