Minisopuru 4 Ports USB C Hub – 10Gbps USB Hub for Laptop, USB Hub Multiport Adapter for MacBook Pro, MacBook, MacBook Air, iPad, Surface Pro, Chromebook. (No Charging/Video Transfer)

> Do we need something better or is USB-C "good enough"?

USB-C won't be reasonably "good enough" until all I need to reasonably use USB-C devices with USB-C computers is USB-C cables.

Suppose I have a computer with a USB-C port, and half a dozen USB-C peripherals that I want to connect at the same time.

Before USB-C it was simple when I had way more devices than ports. I'd buy an inexpensive USB hub. The hub connected to a computer's type A port using the same kind of cable that my peripherals used to connect to the computer's A port. The hub had several type A ports that could then by used for my peripherals, using that same kind of cable.

If the peripherals needed more total power than my computer's type A port could provide, I could buy an inexpensive powered hub.

Now, with USB-C, the inexpensive USB-C hubs connect to the computer with a C to C cable but usually only have one (or zero) fully functional USB-C ports for peripherals. The rest are type A ports.

To actually get a hub that adds multiple fully functional USB-C ports to a computer it seems the right now you have to buy an expensive Thunderbolt 3 or 4 hub.

The best I've seen for inexpensive USB-C port expansion is this [1] or this [2]. The first provides 4 downstream USB-C ports, but they are data only, with no power or video support. The second is the same as the first except it also provides a fifth USB-C port that appears to be a power input only you can use with a USB charger to provide power to allow the hub to power or charge your computer.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Minisopuru-Ports-USB-Hub-Chromebook/d...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Minisopuru-Ports-USB-Hub-Chromebook/d...