Comments on: New Macbooks: not so great for audio/video professionals http://www.geradorzero.com/2008/10/18/new-macbooks-not-so-great-for-audiovideo-professionals/ Gerador Zero - brazilian electronic one-man band. Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:46:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: pv2b http://www.geradorzero.com/2008/10/18/new-macbooks-not-so-great-for-audiovideo-professionals/comment-page-1/#comment-12794 pv2b Mon, 29 Dec 2008 02:14:57 +0000 http://www.geradorzero.com/?p=172#comment-12794 <p>Have you experimented with different brands of USB hubs? Not all USB hubs were created equally from what I've heard. And the cheap hubs are... well... crappy.</p> <p>I have a 24" iMac at home, and I have some trouble as well with random disconnections of my external HDD, and sometimes (rarely) my external sound card (that I use to plug in my headset) bugs out. But then again I'm using a pretty cheap USB hub.</p> <p>But yeah, I have to agree that the fact that an Asus EeePC 900, which costs about 15% of the price of a low-end MacBook Pro, has more USB ports is kinda ridiculous. (And let's not even get into the fact that the Air has only one USB port...)</p> Have you experimented with different brands of USB hubs? Not all USB hubs were created equally from what I’ve heard. And the cheap hubs are… well… crappy.

I have a 24″ iMac at home, and I have some trouble as well with random disconnections of my external HDD, and sometimes (rarely) my external sound card (that I use to plug in my headset) bugs out. But then again I’m using a pretty cheap USB hub.

But yeah, I have to agree that the fact that an Asus EeePC 900, which costs about 15% of the price of a low-end MacBook Pro, has more USB ports is kinda ridiculous. (And let’s not even get into the fact that the Air has only one USB port…)

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