The main reason why you should avoid buying a laptop that only uses a single USB-C PD port (like the infamous 2015 Apple ...

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If your laptop or desktop PC has "sleep-and-charge" USB ports on it, they can be pretty helpful, but how they work varies ...

It hooks up to your laptop via USB-C, and then you can use the stand’s two USB-A ports, HDMI port, and SD/microSD slots to connect extra drives and devices on top of whatever other ports you ...

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But Anker also makes the 7-Port USB 3.0 Hub, which uses external power along with a USB-B to A connector to facilitate seven extra USB-A 3.0 ports. This is because, in edge cases, a hub can refer ...

The Connect Pro Dock features a 100W PD USB-C pass-through port. This means you can use this port to hook the dock up to mains power, and it’ll charge your laptop via the main USB-C dock connection.

Two of the USB-C sockets are just standard USB 3.0 5Gbps ports that can provide 7.5W of power (the same as the larger USB-A ports), but the other two have specific purposes.

So if you have a laptop with a USB 2.0 port connected to a hard drive that can deliver speeds up to USB 3.0 standards, your speeds will be limited to that of the USB 2.0 device. The one exception to ...