Amazon.com: Customer reviews: Kingston Nucleum USB C Hub, 7-In-1 Type-C-Adapter Hub Connect USB 3.0, 4K HDMI, SD and MicroSD-Card, USB Type-C Charging for MacBook, Chromebook, and Other USB Type-C devices

Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2023

This little power bar works great with my MacBook Pro. The Nucleum USB-C Hub gives me two USB ports, plus every other kind of connection I might need. I love that the cord attaching it to the Mac is so sturdy, and I also like the nice metal cover that seems to match my MacBook.

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Yu

perfect.

Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2024

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perfect.

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Sean Flores

Nice looking device, but not all the ports work

Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2019

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**Update:

I did a little more research and found that the issue is not with this Kingston device, but is it the the Luna display key. I attempted to use the Apple USB type C dongle in the TypeC Port of the of the Kingston device and found this USB device to be working. After doing more research on the Luna display, I found that they intentionally disable the use of their devices through hubs. Other than that, solid hub. Hardware seems high quality. I like not losing a USB Type C port when charging, and having both SD and Micro SD readers in one hub.

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The hub itself is of pretty sturdy construction. However, the extra USB type C port doesn't not work properly. I attempted to use my Luna Display to connect my iPad as a second monitor but when connected through the hub, the device as never detected. The charging passthrough appears to be working. However, I can't comment on whether or not my Macbook is charging at full speed. I will be returning this device as I purchased the device to be able to charge my MacBook and use my iPad as an external display at the same time.

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Eman Sdrawkcab

Works, but not the solution I was looking for.

Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2019

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The Nucleum is a good hub, and it works, I've tried everything but the SD cards. Am I happy with it: not really. It's not a fault with the Nucleum as such. What I really wanted was a way to power my device at the same time I'm using a headset, the use case of several hours of business meetings. The hub works fine for this as long as I use my mobile device's charger for power. If I just connect to a computer USB-A port or to a USB-A on a power strip, I run down the battery faster than I would just using the headset on battery power. Of course, the hub consumes extra power for the other functions it supports and my device doesn't charge from computer ports. So it makes sense, but since I really need power and headset and not the other features, it isn't really satisfying. I was hoping for a solution where USB-A can be used and the device battery drops only slowly or stays the same, which is what happens if I just directly power the device from USB-A.

If you are considering this for the same use case - because there seems to be no solution out there - this can work. It is close to more trouble than it is worth, but there have been a few occasions where this hub saved the day. As long as I use the charger, I can get through several meetings with my battery still charged and good to go. If I rated this hub just as as solution for this, I would drop one or two stars. What I want is a smaller hub, that doesn't add significant power requirements of its own, and has two USB-C ports.

Bluetooth headsets work great initially as a solution. But my experience over several Bluetooth headsets is that if you use them consistently for hours of meeting calls a week, after about a year the quality becomes unusable. So if I've started preferring wired headset solutions.

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Clevor

Only hub that works flawlessly with my Macbook Air M1, with some caveats

Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2022

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As many of you know, Macs are super fussy with peripherals. I tested 6 other USB-C hubs on my Mac and this is the only one that will charge from both of the Mac USB-C ports. All the other ones would NOT charge when connected to the forward port.

The HDMI port also works flawlessly with my Lenovo monitor, every time I boot up. Can't say the same for some of the other USB-C hubs I tried.

Also it actually has two USB-A ports, one on each side. The Amazon ad does not show that the other side of the hub also has a port. I have a Wavelink 7-port (powered) USB 3.0 hub connected to one of the ports on the hub, and it works flawlessly, so that give me 7 additional ports.

I have not tested the memory card slots, so don't know about those.

That being said here are the caveats with this hub:
- If you disconnect power to the hub while charging it, it pretty much kicks out anything connected to the hub. This is common knowledge now with a Mac; this won't happen on a Windows laptop. If you look at a lot of ads now for USB-C hubs, they will tell you this, so this is nothing unusual if you own a Mac. Don't be copying files over with an external drive connected to the hub, if you want to disconnect power.
- The USB-C socket for data transmission is really loosey goosey. There is no positive 'click' when you plug a cable in. Just stick it in as far as you can, and you should connect up.
- There are a lot of negative reviews about this hub, in regards to it failing after a few months or a year. Well the thing has a 2-year warrantee from Kingston, so just send it back for refund or replacement. A lot of the USB-C hubs on Amazon are made by non-descript vendors from China, and are lucky to have a 1-year warrantee, if you can contact the company at all.

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Phoebus

Not cheap, but worth it

Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2018

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Ordered this for my new MacBook as that has only one USB-C connector. At first I only used it to charge the MacBook while running backups on an external USB-C hard drive (LaCie LaCie Rugged 1TB USB-C and USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive + 1mo Adobe CC All Apps (STFR1000800) ). Worked flawlessly. Then I got a 4k TV for my office as a combo "projection screen" but also wanted to use it as external monitor. Since Apple doesn't support 4k AirPlay, I had to go hard-wired via HDMI. After reading all the bad reviews about the original Apple HDMI adapter (basically confirmed in store by one of their associates), I decided to bring this from home and give it a try. Again, it didn't disappoint. I now can use my 50" 4k TV on the wall like 4 25" external monitors with 1920x1080 resolution each. I have not tried sending 4k video streams through this, so I cannot say at this time whether its performance is sufficient for that. I'm now ordering a second one for my home.

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Kijana W

Durable, great material

Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2019

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I've used the Kingston Nucleum USB C Hub to watch Dash cam footage with my micro SD card, watch the footy on the TV through the HDMI port and accessed documents on a regular USB Thumb drive. It's a great adapter and definitely worth my hard earned money to purchase. I was scared to pay such a high price for adapter as I've always used the cheap adapters, cables etc for everything but they would always break, over heat etc etc. This bad boy is the best piece of equipment (accessory-wise) I have ever purchased and will definitely use this brand more in the future. I am very happy with my purchase.

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J. Miller

Doesn't transfer the Audio

Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2022

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This thing is nice and small light compact has decent quality materials but the thing that bothers me the most is it doesn't transfer the audio from the computer to the screen Maybe an idiot but this kind of seems like it defeats the purpose to me

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John Doe

Nice USB-C hub

Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2019

Style: Single ItemVerified Purchase

I have been looking for a USB-C hub for my Chromebook (as it only has 2 USB ports and one is used for charging.

There really isn't a lot out there as far as USB-C hubs go. This unit fills gap nicely. Please note, the reviews saying this unit doesn't support pass through power are INCORRECT; it does. The key is only one of the USB-C ports on board this unit supports power. You have to look for the lightening bolt symbol and plug your charger into that one only. Also, if you're not charging, both USB-C ports operate the same. You can use any device in either USB-C port.

At first I was disappointed that it only had 2 USB-C ports but when one considers I was using one of them for video, I just stopped using my dongle for video and plugged the HDMI cable directly into this unit -- thus freeing up a USB-C port.

This unit travels well too. As a consultant, I'm on the road every week. This unit has not let me down yet. Now I can extend my Chromebook to run power, a mouse, video, (a SD card if needed) all without dongles AND having one USB-C port free for future use!

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Nick

ALMOST great - if only it didn't eject hard drives when using more than one.

Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2018

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I've had this for a while now and I've been using it with a new 2018 i9 MacBook Pro. I looked at a lot of USB C dongles and settled with this one after watching a comparison video saying that this one had the best heat distribution. It's nicely designed, has plenty of ports, and fairly compact. But that's about it for the pros. There is a major issue going on with this dongle if you're working with more than 1 device (SD card, hard drive, etc). If you have one device connected and plug in a 2nd device, the first device will be force ejected; sometimes both devices are ejected. Doesn't matter what you're doing. In the middle of copying files? Sorry. I had plugged my 2TB USB C SSD drive into the USB C port on this dongle (the one labeled for data, not for power - there are 2 USB C ports), and it ejected the drive immediately, and now it doesn't reconnect. I've ran data recovery software, I've tried different cables, adapters, and ports, and it doesn't show up in disk utility. It's just gone. So, after this dongle potentially corrupted my SSD, I got a replacement from amazon. I thought, I must have a dud. 2nd one arrived. I put a USB 3 Sony XQD card reader in, then a USB 3 bus powered hard drive... so far so good. Started transferring files. Then I plugged in a micro SD card into the dongle; everything was ejected. I couldn't get the USB 3 drive to show up and it started clicking.... Nope! Unplugged everything, tried going into the laptop with a simple USB 3 to C adapter with the hard drive. It showed up. Ran first aid on it and it's okay, but the point here is that there is some serious issues with this dongle. Not sure if it's hardware, or software, or even on the Mac OS side of things, but this is NOT SAFE for your data, and potentially the devices themselves. Still currently trying to figure out how to save my SSD, which may be totally lost now. Do yourself a favor and look at one of the other options out there.

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