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1. BEST USB HUB FOR MACBOOK RETINA MID 2012 FOR MAC
2. BEST USB HUB FOR MACBOOK RETINA MID 2012 PRO
3. BEST USB HUB FOR MACBOOK RETINA MID 2012 PC
4. BEST USB HUB FOR MACBOOK RETINA MID 2012 BLUETOOTH

PC users may rejoice at this one, but should first check their internal USB hub is functioning optimally.

Serato do not go into specifics as to which port to use, but acknowledge that one port is “good” and the other “bad”.

BEST USB HUB FOR MACBOOK RETINA MID 2012 FOR MAC

Native Instruments thinks that the issue is serious enough to include recommended USB ports for Mac users in all it’s soundcard manuals in the Troubleshooting section. And depending on the configuration of the laptop, the devices are piggybacked differently onto your 2 USB ports.

BEST USB HUB FOR MACBOOK RETINA MID 2012 BLUETOOTH

Hardware like the keyboard/trackpad, iSight, memory card reader, Bluetooth and the IR receiver are all USB devices attached to the internal hub. With only 2 USB ports on the 13″ and 15″ MB and MBP, Apple have shuffled around USB users on its internal USB hub scheme over the years. And we know that when the latency is too high, our actions become noticeably out of sync with the audio. When audio drop outs occur, often our only remedy is to increase latency. If we want to have a high sample rate working at a low latency, the port needs be reading and writing quickly.

How does this affect you? The ability for a port to receive and transmit at specified rates affects our audio settings. For example, the Numark Omni will only provide 4 channel output if it detects a USB 2.0 connection, defaulting to 2 channels if it detects anything lower. Most high end sound cards require USB 2.0 to even operate, with some cards even have multiple configurations. New evidence is showing, that especially with the new i5 and i7 models, you might be missing out on performance by choosing the wrong port.Īs digital audio performance increases, with higher sampling rates and greater bit depth, the speed of our USB port becomes more significant.

BEST USB HUB FOR MACBOOK RETINA MID 2012 PRO

For MacBook and MacBook Pro users, the choice of which of the two available USB ports to use for your sound card hook-up may have never occurred to you. In addition to being $20 less than Apple’s 61W option and $30 less than the 87W charger, you also get another 12W of output from two standard USB ports with this $50 Aukey charger ($38 through this weekend).An audio issue is every DJ’s worst nightmare, after all audio is our art! For digital DJs, there are two sets of audio to worry about: analogue and digital, with USB being the most popular means for our digital hook-up. Conclusionįor 12-inch MacBook or 13-inch MacBook Pro users, I think Aukey’s 60W USB-C charger & dual port USB is a great alternative to Apple’s charger, whether that’s as a replacement or as a backup option. For 15-inch MacBook Pro owners, if you’re not a power-user, it’s also likely a solid choice. For those regularly working with 4K video, doing 3D modeling and rendering, crunching big data sets, or other similar intense tasks, the 87W charger should offer greater output with the 15-inch MacBook Pro models than shown in my testing, and be the best fit. I’m by no means a power user, but my MacBook still handles a decent workload. Variables and considerationsĪs with results from tests like this go, your mileage may vary. But of course, after an hour and a half the 87W charger offered 4% more battery, meaning the average output was a bit higher than the 60W charger, but was still lower than I expected.īoth the 60W and 87W chargers were outputting around 40W of juice after 90 minutes. The Aukey 60W charger put out around the same 57W, for the most part keeping up with the 87W power adapter. Of course this number isn’t static, but it was interesting to see my 15-inch MacBook Pro requesting less than 60W while in use. In my testing, Apple’s 87W charger put out around 57W. When plugging in with battery at 10% here’s a look at the power output of the two chargers: After an hour and a half, the 87W charger added 76% battery while the 60W charger added 72%. The results below are the average of two tests for both the Aukey 60W charger and Apple 87W charger.Īs you can see, the 87W charger filled up my 15-inch MacBook Pro battery more quickly than the 60W charger, but not by very much. As shown below, in my testing, even the 87W Apple charger and original Apple USB-C cable didn’t output over 60W. This power meter is limited to measuring up to 65W, but it was only used to spot check output. I used Satechi’s USB-C Power Meter to measure output and started the clock with the battery at 10% for all tests. That includes eleven open apps, Safari with 4-6 tabs open at a time, TweetDeck with streaming on, and brightness set to 75%. Because charging times aren’t as important when you’re not using your MacBook, all tests were done during normal work days here at 9to5Mac on my 2016 15-inch MacBook Pro running macOS High Sierra.