I sometimes do, especially when I am using my trusty old MSI Wind. It has three USB ports, but there are times (not very often) when I find myself wishing I had an extra port or two. Never – not even in my frustrated moments – have I found myself needing or wanting 80 USB ports, though!
I don’t think that I know anyone – not even the geekiest and most gadget crazy person I know – who would need 80 USB ports at a single time, do you? I guess the people at Thanko might have bought one gadget too many. They’re the ones promoting this board with 80 USB ports, and they seem really excited about it.
As you can see from the picture, it does look like you have an army of shiny little things in a sea of red. It can look impressive, I have to admit, but impressive does not mean useful. Think about it, this board can accommodate 80 devices with USB connectivity but it doesn’t do anything but charge the devices. It does not even have the capability to store data! Sure, it has some features such as adjustable voltage (for different devices, obviously), but for almost $200, it’s just too steep!
Think what you can buy for $200. Even if I had that money to burn, I definitely won’t waste it on this thing. Is there anyone here who can change my mind? Maybe I am missing out on an important detail here.
Yeah, that’s not so useful after all. Think of all the cabling if you charged 80 iPods!
I am always running out of USB ports, and am too lazy to buy a hub. I’m just glad the USB port (full size version at least) is reasonably robust. I dread to think what I’d have done to cables with pins on (remember parallel printer and VGA ports?). They’d almost certainly have one or two bent pins on now and be totally unusable.
No, for the average home user it’s not, but with a voltage converter to run it off a car battery you can make a fortune at festivals charging people’s phones, mp3 players and camera’s. At £3 a charge, $200 doesn’t seem like a very big price to pay….
If it supported copying data it could be handy if you needed to make a bunch of flash drives with identical content (say, if you distributed software via flash drive instead of CD). If it’s truly charging only, then yeah, I think trustme hit the target audience.
Yeah, trustme – that’s a good money-making scheme!
[...] Você que acha que existem portas USB de menos no seu computador, seus problemas acabaram. Os japas da Thanko inventaram um HUB USB com nada mais nada menos que 80 portas. Haja coisa em USB pra se conectar com tanta porta. A japinha parece assustada com o tamanho do HUB. Site da fabricante Fonte [...]