Which AIO dongle to buy for the new macbook pro?

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I'm still deciding on which model to get, but I'm leaning towards the 15" pro model.

I'm looking all over the internet for reviews of the new dongles, but everyone is tooting their horn so I find it hard to separate facts from bs in all this noise.

I'm looking for a dongle with charging pass-through, some usb 3.0 type-a ports (the regular ones) and possibly a hdmi port. I haven't found one with tb2 port, but that'll be awesome because I'm keeping my display and I'll be stuck with the tb2 interface there. But I'm planning on buying the official dongle for this purpose if I don't find anything better. I'm also planning on occasionally using it within bootcamp, I've read that some dongles don't play well with it. Or perhaps there were just some driver issues?

I've heard a lot of great things about the hyperdrive (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sanho-GN28B-GRAY-Hyper-Drive/dp/B01MUAEI7J/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1502154715&sr=8-1&keywords=hyperdrive). I like the design, but I've read some comments that it can easily be tugged out and obviously everything disconnects. I'm also not sure how it will fare when carried in my bag, those two connectors look fragile and look they could easily bend if not careful.

I've also found this little guy from minix (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Minix-NEO-C-UBC-C-Multiport-Adapter/dp/B01MDS1IX6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1502154737&sr=8-1&keywords=MiniX+Mini+Neo-C). It doesn't offer as many connections as the hyperdrive, but it's half the price and it only takes 1 port. But some pointed out the fact that this one has only 5 gbps bandwidth so I'm interested how well does this fare? I don't transfer data often, but when I do, I'm usually in a hurry :D

Posted Aug 8, 2017, 1:35 AM UTC

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