**The iPad Stand with a Built-in Hub: A Comprehensive Review**

We recently had the opportunity to test and review an iPad stand with a built-in hub, specifically designed for use with iPads connected to larger external screens. As expected, we were excited to put this product through its paces and see how it would perform in real-world scenarios.

**Connecting the iPad to the Portable Display**

We started by connecting our iPad to a small portable display using the stand's built-in USB ports. However, as we soon discovered, this particular model of iPad (A14) does not support features like Stage Manager, which is a key feature for many users who want to use their iPads in a more desktop-like environment. Despite this limitation, we still found that the stand was easy to set up and connect, with no issues whatsoever.

**Testing the USB Ports**

We were curious to see how the iPad's USB ports would perform, so we plugged in a trusty Samsung T7 drive and ran a disk benchmark test on it. To our surprise, we found that there was only a small difference between using the USB port directly on the iPad versus plugging the drive into one of the stand's ports. In fact, our results showed that read speeds were down by only 3% when using the external port, while write speeds remained largely unaffected.

**Testing with an M1 iPad Pro**

We also took the opportunity to test the stand with an M1 iPad Pro, which has a more powerful processor and faster USB ports. When we plugged in the drive directly into the iPad's USB port, we saw significantly slower read speeds - 765 megabytes per second versus 232 megabytes per second. However, when we used the Hub to connect the drive to the iPad, our results improved dramatically, with read speeds increasing to 3,307 megabytes per second.

**The Stand's Design and Features**

We were impressed by the stand's design, which features a simple yet elegant mechanism for holding the iPad in place. The stand is also remarkably easy to set up, thanks to its clever magnetic attachment system that allows you to quickly and easily secure your iPad to the stand. We also appreciated the adjustable tilt feature, which allows you to customize the angle of the stand to suit your needs.

**Conclusion**

Overall, we were very impressed with this iPad stand with a built-in hub. While it may not be perfect for all users (particularly those who require Stage Manager), its features and design make it an excellent choice for anyone looking for a convenient and versatile way to use their iPad with larger external screens. At a reasonable price point of $110, we think that this product represents great value for money.

**Pricing and Availability**

At the time of our review, these stands were priced at $110, although we suspect that there may be sales or promotions available in the future. We've included links to the larger stand in the description below, so be sure to check them out if you're interested in purchasing one for yourself.

**The Verdict**

We give this product a thumbs up from us, and we hope that our review has been helpful in informing your purchasing decisions. Whether you're an avid iPad user or simply looking for a convenient way to use your device with larger screens, we think that this stand is well worth considering. Thanks again to the manufacturer for providing us with the opportunity to test and review this product - we look forward to seeing what they come up with next!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enI've got an interesting product to take a look at today it's an iPad stand but with a difference because this one has a built-in Hub let's check it out so this is the quiz lab us 1011 Pro just checking my notes there and there is also a 1012 Pro for the larger 12.9 inch iPads this 11 inch model supports the iPad Air fourth and fifth generation and the iPad Pro 11 inch Generations one through four basically if it's got a type c port on your iPad then it is supported I don't know about the standard iPad that does use the same chassis now as the iPad Air it's possible that it'll fit on the stand but I haven't got one to test the magnets might be in a different place now this stand uses n52 magnets if that means anything to you but I can confirm they're plenty strong enough to hold your tablet nice and secure I'm quite happy to test that because this is my wife's iPad not mine and it's easy to take the iPad off and what you find behind is we've got this nice silicon pad so when you put your iPad on you're not going to scratch the back of it with this particular stand now the construction of the stand itself is all aluminum or aluminum depending on where in the world you are it feels premium it weighs uh about a kilo and uh yeah it's very nice the hinge is really nice Everything feels premium secure and tight now the hinge has about 80 degrees of tilt and it can run through a whole 360 Degrees there's no stop point you just keep rotating much like other stands I've reviewed there's no detent though to get it absolutely straight so you've just got to kind of line it up yourself to make sure you're straight of course to make use of the Hub features you will have to connect a cable to the iPad and there is one supplied which has an L-shaped plug at one end I'll probably use that on the iPad itself and then plug this end into the stand before I do that though let's just run through the ports on the side and let you know what we've got so if we take a look at the ports it's all the usual stuff that you get on a USB hub but starting at the top we've got a USB type-c port and this is the one that you use to connect to your tablet next is a headphone jack which will be welcome news to anybody who's missed the headphone jack since Apple removed it from all of the iPads and then we have another type c port and this is used for charging now on the spec sheet on the website it says it supports power delivery and 60 watts so I've tested this out I've plugged in a charger and it does indeed charge the iPad but I was curious to see if this port would also function as a standard USB port if we weren't using the charger and the answer is sadly no it doesn't underneath there we've got the usual SD card slot so we've got a large SD card slot and a MicroSD slot are these are UHS type 1 slots so it's limited to 100 megabytes per second next we have two type A ports which I'll come back to in a moment and then at the bottom an HDMI port which supports 4K resolution at 60 hertz now as you can see we've got the iPad here connected up to a small portable display but of course this is the A14 iPad so it doesn't have stage manager or anything like that we tried it with lumafusion and DaVinci Resolve to see if we could get that X external screen to work perhaps if you've got an A14 iPad something like this is not that useful to you unless you particularly want to use a keyboard and mouse and a much larger Monitor and then I can see the point but that's an iPad OS limitation rather than a limitation of the stand itself and of course if you're using an iPad Pro and you're using stage manager then this could be an ideal part of your desk setup so let's just come back to these USB ports they're Taipei as you can see there's two of them and on the website it says that they are USB 3.0 spec which equates to 3.2 generation one or in other words five gigabits per second but I just wanted to test how much impact these slightly slower ports will have in the real world so I took a trusty Samsung t7 drive and what we did was we plugged it into the iPad Air here and we just did a jazz disk bench test on it and what we found is we got 314 megabytes per second on read and 277 megabytes per second on right that's with the drive plugged directly into the iPad run the same test plug in the drive into one of these ports instead and we get 304 megabytes per second on read so that's a drop of about three percent and 265 megabytes per second on right which is a drop of about four and a half percent so in the real world if you're using an iPad Air with an A14 chip not much difference in the use of these ports we also need to test it with the M1 chip I have an M1 iPad Pro so I also plugged that in and did the same test now this drive when it's plugged directly into that iPad with its USB 4 Port incorporating Thunderbolt 3 we get 765 megabytes per second on read just 232 megabytes per second on right now that does seem a lot lower than the read speed and that is because there are issues with the implementation of USB on the M1 and M2 chips we've reported on this plenty of times on the channel before but as you can see that faster Port does indeed get you a faster read speed at 765. if we then go through the Hub the read speed drops down to 3 307 when it comes to writing though we get 257 megabytes per second which is actually an 11 increase when you use the Hub and you might be thinking why on Earth would that be true but we've seen exactly the same behavior with the M1 Max as well where you can get better performance on USB drives sometimes when you're plugged into a hub anyway my conclusion is that these type A ports are fast enough for use with an iPad because iPads don't deliver massive USB performance anyway the iPad goes onto the stand really easily okay get the magnets in the right position and this cable I think is really neat I'm going to use the L side on here coil it around and plug it into the back that's a nice nice neat solution now you've got full rotation all the way around and the cables long enough to give you plenty of maneuverability there so that you can go from landscape to Portrait and of course you've got the angle adjustable as well and as you can probably see that that does take a little bit of effort to adjust the Tilt which is probably what you want you don't want it too loose but you do need to be careful of course because the force required is enough to pull the iPad off of the magnet and you don't want to drop your iPad so just be cautious as you're doing that other than that there's very little that I don't like about this stand it makes perfect sense to me if you're going out to buy a stand to put your iPad on to use with Stage manager or something like that why wouldn't you want a stand with a built-in Hub it's a great idea pricing wise these are at the moment 110 dollars I think there's a sale or a promotion going we'll put some links in the description if you want the larger one that is also 110 and I think that's a reasonable price for the quality of the item so yeah I I like this product this gets a thumbs up from me and I hope this video gets a thumbs up from you or a thumbs down if that's your thing either way thanks in advance for your subs your shares your likes your comments everything you do to support the channel we really appreciate it and we'll see you again soon for some more geekeryI've got an interesting product to take a look at today it's an iPad stand but with a difference because this one has a built-in Hub let's check it out so this is the quiz lab us 1011 Pro just checking my notes there and there is also a 1012 Pro for the larger 12.9 inch iPads this 11 inch model supports the iPad Air fourth and fifth generation and the iPad Pro 11 inch Generations one through four basically if it's got a type c port on your iPad then it is supported I don't know about the standard iPad that does use the same chassis now as the iPad Air it's possible that it'll fit on the stand but I haven't got one to test the magnets might be in a different place now this stand uses n52 magnets if that means anything to you but I can confirm they're plenty strong enough to hold your tablet nice and secure I'm quite happy to test that because this is my wife's iPad not mine and it's easy to take the iPad off and what you find behind is we've got this nice silicon pad so when you put your iPad on you're not going to scratch the back of it with this particular stand now the construction of the stand itself is all aluminum or aluminum depending on where in the world you are it feels premium it weighs uh about a kilo and uh yeah it's very nice the hinge is really nice Everything feels premium secure and tight now the hinge has about 80 degrees of tilt and it can run through a whole 360 Degrees there's no stop point you just keep rotating much like other stands I've reviewed there's no detent though to get it absolutely straight so you've just got to kind of line it up yourself to make sure you're straight of course to make use of the Hub features you will have to connect a cable to the iPad and there is one supplied which has an L-shaped plug at one end I'll probably use that on the iPad itself and then plug this end into the stand before I do that though let's just run through the ports on the side and let you know what we've got so if we take a look at the ports it's all the usual stuff that you get on a USB hub but starting at the top we've got a USB type-c port and this is the one that you use to connect to your tablet next is a headphone jack which will be welcome news to anybody who's missed the headphone jack since Apple removed it from all of the iPads and then we have another type c port and this is used for charging now on the spec sheet on the website it says it supports power delivery and 60 watts so I've tested this out I've plugged in a charger and it does indeed charge the iPad but I was curious to see if this port would also function as a standard USB port if we weren't using the charger and the answer is sadly no it doesn't underneath there we've got the usual SD card slot so we've got a large SD card slot and a MicroSD slot are these are UHS type 1 slots so it's limited to 100 megabytes per second next we have two type A ports which I'll come back to in a moment and then at the bottom an HDMI port which supports 4K resolution at 60 hertz now as you can see we've got the iPad here connected up to a small portable display but of course this is the A14 iPad so it doesn't have stage manager or anything like that we tried it with lumafusion and DaVinci Resolve to see if we could get that X external screen to work perhaps if you've got an A14 iPad something like this is not that useful to you unless you particularly want to use a keyboard and mouse and a much larger Monitor and then I can see the point but that's an iPad OS limitation rather than a limitation of the stand itself and of course if you're using an iPad Pro and you're using stage manager then this could be an ideal part of your desk setup so let's just come back to these USB ports they're Taipei as you can see there's two of them and on the website it says that they are USB 3.0 spec which equates to 3.2 generation one or in other words five gigabits per second but I just wanted to test how much impact these slightly slower ports will have in the real world so I took a trusty Samsung t7 drive and what we did was we plugged it into the iPad Air here and we just did a jazz disk bench test on it and what we found is we got 314 megabytes per second on read and 277 megabytes per second on right that's with the drive plugged directly into the iPad run the same test plug in the drive into one of these ports instead and we get 304 megabytes per second on read so that's a drop of about three percent and 265 megabytes per second on right which is a drop of about four and a half percent so in the real world if you're using an iPad Air with an A14 chip not much difference in the use of these ports we also need to test it with the M1 chip I have an M1 iPad Pro so I also plugged that in and did the same test now this drive when it's plugged directly into that iPad with its USB 4 Port incorporating Thunderbolt 3 we get 765 megabytes per second on read just 232 megabytes per second on right now that does seem a lot lower than the read speed and that is because there are issues with the implementation of USB on the M1 and M2 chips we've reported on this plenty of times on the channel before but as you can see that faster Port does indeed get you a faster read speed at 765. if we then go through the Hub the read speed drops down to 3 307 when it comes to writing though we get 257 megabytes per second which is actually an 11 increase when you use the Hub and you might be thinking why on Earth would that be true but we've seen exactly the same behavior with the M1 Max as well where you can get better performance on USB drives sometimes when you're plugged into a hub anyway my conclusion is that these type A ports are fast enough for use with an iPad because iPads don't deliver massive USB performance anyway the iPad goes onto the stand really easily okay get the magnets in the right position and this cable I think is really neat I'm going to use the L side on here coil it around and plug it into the back that's a nice nice neat solution now you've got full rotation all the way around and the cables long enough to give you plenty of maneuverability there so that you can go from landscape to Portrait and of course you've got the angle adjustable as well and as you can probably see that that does take a little bit of effort to adjust the Tilt which is probably what you want you don't want it too loose but you do need to be careful of course because the force required is enough to pull the iPad off of the magnet and you don't want to drop your iPad so just be cautious as you're doing that other than that there's very little that I don't like about this stand it makes perfect sense to me if you're going out to buy a stand to put your iPad on to use with Stage manager or something like that why wouldn't you want a stand with a built-in Hub it's a great idea pricing wise these are at the moment 110 dollars I think there's a sale or a promotion going we'll put some links in the description if you want the larger one that is also 110 and I think that's a reasonable price for the quality of the item so yeah I I like this product this gets a thumbs up from me and I hope this video gets a thumbs up from you or a thumbs down if that's your thing either way thanks in advance for your subs your shares your likes your comments everything you do to support the channel we really appreciate it and we'll see you again soon for some more geekery\n"