Satechi’s iPad Pro hub will allow you to faux it’s an actual desktop

The newest gadget from Satechi is both a stand and a USB-C hub made for the 11-inch and 12.9-inch iPad Pro fashions which have a USB-C charging port, in addition to the 2020 iPad Air. It’s $100, and together with your pill wedged into the stand, it ought to look extra like a standard monitor, so you possibly can carry on pretending it’s an precise desktop substitute.

Like any hub, it provides you a handful of additional ports for increasing the performance of your iPad. This one contains an HDMI port able to outputting 4K at as much as 60Hz refresh price, a USB-An information port, a USB-C PD port with as much as 60W of charging energy, a headphone jack, and separate slots for an SD and microSD card.

You technically don’t want an iPad to make use of this hub, as this foldable stand is appropriate with different computer systems, tablets, and telephones which have a USB-C port. Satechi does point out, nevertheless, that your machine wants a USB-C PD port for “full compatibility” with the hub. It lists the final 5 years of MacBook Pros, the 2018 and 2020 MacBook Air, Microsoft’s Surface Pro 7 and Surface Go, in addition to the Samsung Galaxy S20 and Google Pixelbook as viable companions to its hub. Extra compatibility is sweet, however when you don’t have an iPad (and thus, no want for the stand part), you possibly can in all probability discover a completely different USB-C hub that’s no much less succesful for cheaper.

If this product appears interesting to you, Satechi is knocking $20 off the cost through June 6th at midnight PT whenever you enter the supply code IPADPRO at checkout.