InfiniteUSB neatly solves your limited USB port problems

[comprensoldotna]

Keep in mind this product is really only viable if you have a USB type C port that supports USB PD. If not then there would not be adequate power to charge a tablet/phone and use an external hard drive at the same time.

[DDY]

Can someone explain to me with the bus nature of USB how they're able to make it just "pass through" without interfering with another connected devices data stream? Those look a little small to have frequency modulators and the only way I can think of is that they're using a timing circuit to prevent data clashes?

Oh and on top of that, unless each extra IUSB connection just shows as another connectible port, then I know for a fact windows will bork out unless they have a special driver that works with this modular system.

This seems a little fantastical, but if they've managed it, fair enough.

I'd put my money on a 2 port USB hub, just need a single tiny IC, a few passives and maybe a crystal.

EDIT:

As per the FAQ, "Infinite" means "Six"

Ahh, most likely a USB hub setup then, since the USB spec limits the branches of hubs to five, i.e. six ports from five daisy chained two port hubs.

[smilertoo]

$18? Apple won't like that, no doubt they have some $50+ solution coming.

[jim]

As per the FAQ, "Infinite" means "Six"

Excellent!

[Defiant]

That price...

Yeah no thanks

[3dcandy]

Well I need at least 4 usb ports on my music laptop for the controllers....

[Saracen]

As per the FAQ, "Infinite" means "Six"

Hah, now I know where the marketing team that designed ADSL broadband speed claims went, when they got fired.

[duc]

Why not have a complete docking solution:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...-apple-macbook

[Biscuit]

Why not have a complete docking solution:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...-apple-macbook

Nice dock for at home, for sure. Not something to carry about though.

Again, its a solution to an unnecessary problem. If people just didn't buy the damn device then apple would be forced to change their mentality, instead people pay to inconvenience them self, then pay again to get around the inconvenience, it makes zero sense.

Whatever happened to thunderbolt?

[whatif]

Ahh Typical of apple to do something like this, and seriously, is this how you "reinvent the notebook" - Ridiculous.
Only the apple diehards will still say this is a great design.
I normally have all sorts of things I end up plugging in (even my intel NUC HTPC has about 10 usb's plugged in all the time (2x TV tuners, 2x external HDDs, USB headset, logitech unifying receiver for K830 keyboard/mouse combo, 1x external blue ray, charging sync cable for phone, charging and updating adapter for TomTom navigator, download cable for Nikon camera). My desktop has even more. So how much are you supposed to spend on top of a overpriced notebook to get most thing wireless.
Everything soldered in and no fan at all, how long will this last after being used a lot? But don't worry, in something like six months they will have the new updated version out just in time.
(probably with 2 usb's). Just like the ipad - the first one came out without a camera but the hardware was already designed to fit one. So it was easy to fit the missing pieces and call the ipad 2 a upgrade. Basically a ripoff way to make you keep buying the newer version.
No matter how trendy and fashionable they want to pretend them to be, apple have always suffered manufactured obsolescence and user restrictions, the main reasons I have never bought one of their products.

[kingpotnoodle]

I'd put my money on a 2 port USB hub, just need a single tiny IC, a few passives and maybe a crystal.

EDIT:



Ahh, most likely a USB hub setup then, since the USB spec limits the branches of hubs to five, i.e. six ports from five daisy chained two port hubs.

I assumed it was a sequence of hubs and then thought "why not just buy a 5/8 port slim hub"... with all that weight hanging off one knock and you've broken the port on your shiny new toy.

[chrestomanci]

As per the FAQ, "Infinite" means "Six"

I think that is because each of the daisy chained plugs works as a two port USB hub, and six is the limit on the number of hubs you can connect together, as per the USB spec.

Personally, If I where stuck with such a laptop, I would buy at least a four port hub, and take it everywhere I go, but then, I would avoid buying a laptop with less than three ports.

[kingpotnoodle]

I would avoid buying a laptop with less than three ports.

I think many people would but then it seems this is the Macbook for people who would have managed just fine with an iPad if only it had a keyboard and was a few inches bigger in the screen.

[whatif]

I would avoid buying a laptop with less than three ports.

I think many people would but then it seems this is the Macbook for people who would have managed just fine with an iPad if only it had a keyboard and was a few inches bigger in the screen.

This looks like the best suggestion for this product.
But even so, given it is larger than a ipad, how hard would it have been to add on at least one more usb port? Some above have suggested that they will get a usb hub, they will still need the adapter for the new "C" type port. And how many of us have the cables for this connector. Do apple supply a adapter to the older usb, or is this another sales line?
At least they have finally adopter a universal standard port instead of continuing with their own proprietary one, I suppose in the short term they will make up the loss in licensing fees for the Lightning connector with all the new type C adapters and hubs