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Comment by forgotmypw17 | Hacker News Reader

This article makes me feel very good about almost always being several years behind the edge when it comes to hardware.

By the time I get around to using these devices, hopefully this kind of crap will get shaken out, and I'll have a nice stable of salvage accessories to choose from.

For now, I'll stick to my (also salvaged) MBP with regular USB, audio jacks, MagSafe, HDMI, SD card reader, and an extra millimeter or two of thickness. :)

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the one problem is that when I look up the price of Caldigit and other brands that HN is vouching for they are $400~$500 range.

I would need to burn through 8~9 $50~60 range alternatives that allegedly "suck" before I see returns, and by that time we would have 3 to 4 iterations of macbook.

I guess if you like peace of mind then this makes sense but I hope nobody drops $500+ on a hub from reading HN comments, the "crappy" ones described work fine, it just that it won't last and creates waste but it would take quite a long time to do so.

But they don't work just fine? I mean maybe they do for your use case, but I've had functionality issues with cheap docks/dongles. Things like not supporting resolution/refresh rates combos that it was supposed to or not getting full USB speeds. And there are people here saying that they've even had these devices take down their networks.

Did you intend to reply to my comment? I’m not sure how the quality of new hardware relates to my using only older hardware which is stable.

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