One of the most popular products that our friends at Nomad have ever sold is their keychain-friendly ChargeKey, which provides end users with a convenient mobile charging cable that you can effortlessly put on your keyring so that you always have a way to charge your devices.
When it comes to keeping all your favorite devices powered when you’re away from home, it’s common to carry several charging cables, or at least numerous types of chargers. For example, the Apple Watch has its own proprietary charger, while your MacBook Pro has a USB-C port. But what if you could have just one cable that did it all?
If you’re still using a Thunderbolt 4 hub with your MacBook Pro or Mac mini, then you might want to consider upgrading to a Thunderbolt 5 hub, especially if your machine is of the newer M4 Pro/M4 Max variety with the upgraded I/O ports. Fortunately, our friends at CalDigit have just the solution for anyone in this predicament.
If you’re in the market for some new ultramodern charging cables that can handle anything you throw at them, then we’re happy to point you in the direction of our friends over at Nomad this week.
Starting with the iPhone 15 lineup, Apple moved from its proprietary Lightning iPhone connector to the more universally accepted USB-C connector for charging and data transfer. In doing so, Apple also incorporated an all-new USB-C controller chip that had never existed in any other Apple device before it.
A name that many on-the-go creative professionals turn to for storage solutions is LaCie, a premium storage device brand that exists under the parent brand Seagate. But even if you already knew that, then something you may not know is that LaCie just this week announced something they’re calling the “industry’s fastest scratch disk.”
It’s not uncommon to see 0.5-meter Thunderbolt 4 (USB-C) and 3-meter Thunderbolt 4 (USB-C) cables supporting up to 40Gb/s of bandwidth for your computer and various peripherals. In fact, you may even commonly come across various cable lengths in between the aforementioned lengths.
Satechi has released full details for the refreshed Mac mini stand and hub. The accessory has fewer ports than before, but some of them are now faster.
Satechi has unveiled a compact NVMe SSD enclosure alongside a pair of mobile USB-C hubs which sport premium 3.5mm audio support and other perks.
Owners of USB-C versions of Apple's Magic Keyboard, Magic Trackpad and Magic Mouse report that these accessories require macOS Sequoia 15.1 to work properly.
While much of Tuesday’s spotlight involved the Mac mini, one detail pertaining to the miniature desktop computer’s higher-tier configuration with the M4 Pro chip meant that came equipped with Thunderbolt 5 ports instead of the Thunderbolt 4 ports that come on lower par models.
Learn how to transfer large videos, documents, and other files from one Apple device to another over a USB cable using a wired AirDrop connection.