My desk is a mess. I would take pictures of my desk but I rather not. I am moving in a month so I’m sure my desk will be more organized for at least a week after I move.
One reason my desk is a mess is because of all the usb cords. I always have at least 2 external hard-drives, my P2 card reader (2 usb slots for this), printer, webcam, mouse, keyboard (I don’t like wireless for the desktop), and other usb cords for charging miscellanies things. The fact that my current usb hub as at least 2 broken ports doesn’t help things at all.
I want a new usb hub, but the issues do go father than that. So many things are charged via USB now I decided to charge them somewhere else other than my desk. Borderwing was awesome enough to send me an Alisten PowerPort 6 USB-C/USB Charging Hub. It has 5 normal usb slots and an usb-c slot. This replaced the 2 usb converters in a power strip that I use for cellphones. I also use this same power strip to change batteries and other miscellanies things so for me this is perfect to move all my usb charging cords (that don’t need to be hooked up to the computer) into one spot.
USB charging hubs makes sense because if you are like me need to charge at least 4 different usb devices lets just say every-other day, you may not have enough converters . . single usb power converters I don’t think are worth having more that 2 per cell phone (one for home, one for travel) and there are so many usb devices now you can usally getaway with less if need be. Of course most devices that have usb on them you can only charge through usb when the device is on. I don’t like leaving my computer, tv, dvd player, ect . . . on when I don’t need it on.
Bottom line, the Alisten PowerPort 6 USB-C/USB Charging Hub works and should help me organize my cords and have less things tangles on my mess I call a desk. For only $20 I can’t ask for more. The only way I would spend more for for an item like this is if the USB charging hub would A. also connect to the computer and B. had individual power switches for the usb slots. B of course would mean the device would be bigger as well. For a small device like this it does exactly what it needs to do and I am very happy with it.
As you can see it is small and my smallest remote is larger than it. To answer in advance: hanging wires do not bother me and I do have it connected to a power switch so I can turn it off when not in use.
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