gcollins1972
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It would be great if anyone's knows of a kb with a USB port or 2 to plug a mouse into or whatever.
Any keyboards w USB port to plug mouse into?
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gcollins1972
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Mouse cable usually a bit to short. So plugging into keyboard would be a good solution. Or a USB thumb drive or whatever. A card reader, etc.
Easy way to add extra USB ports to a desktop or especially a laptop computer. External power plugin would be nice to, have extra power to charge USB devices. So would be like a powered USB hub then to.
Same for tablets to.
Well when you have external keyboard for tablets and laptops.
Easy way to add extra USB ports to a desktop or especially a laptop computer. External power plugin would be nice to, have extra power to charge USB devices. So would be like a powered USB hub then to.
Same for tablets to.
Well when you have external keyboard for tablets and laptops.
gcollins1972
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No it would be a keyboard w USB ports. Got to have keyboard anyway. Taking up that space. USB ports would be built into the keyboard. Maybe a card reader too. SD, Micro SD etc.
Got to have kb anyway. So extra USB port(s) with out buying a USB powered hub or not powered USB hub, would be nice. Save lots of space. Being able to plugin your mouse there would be really nice to.
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Doesn't seem to exist yet. Would be a really nice product. Save lots of space. Compact and functionally useful. Wear out the USB ports. You might want to buy a new kb then. So useful.
If this product was made. Some would be buying keyboards with USB 3.0 and 3.1 ports for the speed. So they can easily plugin thumb drives and external hard drives with some serious speeds. Kind of funny.
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They do make keyboards with usb hubs, not sure I would buy them though. Still simpler just to buy a powered hub.
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If you're worried about wearing out other USB ports you can always use an extension and plug stuff into that, when it wears out it's just a cable replacement. Logistically this doesn't make much sense, if you had a wired dongle you could just put it on a hub near the monitor, if it was a wired mouse you'd need to wrap it around to the back and then back again to the front of the desk into your keyboard so it gets in your workspace.
I'm surprised you don't use a Raspberry Pi 400 for a PC, they built the computer into the keyboard.
If you had a 3d printer you could print out a housing for a seemingly integrated USB+Keyboard combo and stuff your own hub in there, yet you'd still be using a hub. I'd expect the same approach for any 'keyboard with usb ports' on the market, although most of them would simply just leverage USB 2.0 since it's cheap and more than enough for a simple input device.
I'm surprised you don't use a Raspberry Pi 400 for a PC, they built the computer into the keyboard.
Eh, I'm sure they'd get used about as much as monitor USB ports, not often. Plus you'd need to pay significantly more manufacturing the keyboard for a 3.1 gen2 10 gbit interface that the majority of people wouldn't use just to push some keystrokes.
If you had a 3d printer you could print out a housing for a seemingly integrated USB+Keyboard combo and stuff your own hub in there, yet you'd still be using a hub. I'd expect the same approach for any 'keyboard with usb ports' on the market, although most of them would simply just leverage USB 2.0 since it's cheap and more than enough for a simple input device.