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May 4, 2023 12:47:40   #
cyclespeed Loc: Calgary, Alberta Canada
 
jbk224 wrote:
Dano,
No apologies required........"Should you use adaptor or adapter? Both words can be used interchangeably. Adapter is the more common spelling for either meaning of the word."


Yes in the US of A but for some reason the English language is spoken in many countries. Does the word colonialism have more than one spelling?

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May 5, 2023 09:52:03   #
Photolady2014 Loc: Southwest Colorado
 
burkphoto wrote:
I've been using this for 20 months.

Portable dock:

https://www.charjenpro.com/products/ultimatedock

HDMI 4K/60fps video
Gigabit Ethernet
Two USB 3.2 Type A ports @ 10Gbps
Headphone jack
Power delivery input for laptop charger… can handle up to 100W
SD/Micro SD 4.0 UHS I/II readers

It's very small. I carry it with me when traveling to download SDXC cards, connect projectors and monitors, use hard-wired Ethernet for security, connect thumb drives and portable SSDs, and listen to higher quality digital audio than the headphone jack on the MacBook Air allows. It's about $90.

Don't buy the little $8 to $12 adapters. They limit you to 5Gbps transfer rate in most cases.

If you need Thunderbolt 3 speed, buy a Thunderbolt 3 or 4 compatible drive and a Thunderbolt 4 cable. They're super expensive, but if you edit high quality video on the go... You need one. You may also need a Thunderbolt dock or hub. OWC makes great ones.
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My travel hard drives have been just fine when I could plug right into my old Mac Air. Probably. It the speediest, but only took a few minutes to download my morning shots, sometimes almost 1,000 CR3 files. Then the thumbnails rendered just fine. I actually have a cheap thing I use for the sad card and it works just fine. But what I do is go from SD card right to external hard drive through the Mac Air.

I appreciate all your info!

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May 13, 2023 06:42:28   #
Blurryeyed Loc: NC Mountains.
 
Photolady2014 wrote:
I need an adaptor for my Mac Air M2 2022.

I can get the Apple adaptor that has a cord. There are also adaptors that just have the plug if that is what you want to call it.

Do the plug adaptors work just as well? I would rather just get 2 plugs and have one on each of my external hard drives vs one Apple with the cord. Just in case I'm on a trip and the Apple one get lost or some dumb thing.

I had bought an adaptor that split so I could hook both external drives at the same time for faster downloading but it simply was tooo slow and it would not render thumbnails... well a couple would but not all of them, it was weird.

Thanks for your input!
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They work just fine, you may want to buy one of those fancy ones that have multiple inputs but I have an iMac desktop and a M1 laptop and of course I needed adapters for the new USB as well as the old USB inputs so I purchased this at Amazon and they work!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B6B87891?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details&th=1

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May 13, 2023 08:45:52   #
Photolady2014 Loc: Southwest Colorado
 
Blurryeyed wrote:
They work just fine, you may want to buy one of those fancy ones that have multiple inputs but I have an iMac desktop and a M1 laptop and of course I needed adapters for the new USB as well as the old USB inputs so I purchased this at Amazon and they work!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B6B87891?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details&th=1


Thanks, I got some that are on the way!

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