One of the questions I received recently was a surprise… Gary Karasick, who subscribes to my newsletter, wrote to ask me about a problem he was having…with his iMac:

I am having difficulties maintaining connectivity with y new iMac. I have many external USB devices and instead of reaching around the back of my iMac, I have used a powered USB 7 Port hub. Sometimes I get a machine from my machine saying there isn’t enough power to support all of the devices. How can this be if I am using a hub with an external power source? What can I do so that I can continue getting the benefit of the easily accessible hub?

I wrote back to Gary to say that I don’t use iMac or any Apple Mac products, so I really could not answer questions specific to the Mac.

However, this problem wasn’t directly an iMac issue…it was a problem with an external USB hub.

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