Review: Santa USB Hub

Posted on 13 December 2008 by


It’s the holiday season and whoopty-doop and ….where was I?  Oh yeah I was looking at the decoration I have on my desktop thanks to budgetgadgets.com.  I just can’t help but be merry when I see my little blinking Santa.

This jolly little elf is happily spending time bringing holiday cheer to my desk, while also providing a way to plug mice and keyboards into my desktop.  Santa is all lit up for the holidays and blinks while you toil your way to Christmas Day!

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This is a low speed hub.  If you plug high speed devices like thumb drives, you’ll be running in USB 1.1 mode; they will work, but everything will be slow.  But s since you’d only use it for about a month, it shouldn’t be a problem.  This hub is more of a decoration than a actual tool, but if you want to plug a extra mouse into it you could definitely do it.

If Santa’s not your thing, you can also get a USB Light Up Christmas Tree.

Or a Snowman.

But if you really do like Santa, then you can get a Santa USB drive in sizes all the way to 8 GB!

Budgetgadgets.com has great prices too, with the Santa Hub at $7.65, the Santa Thumb Drive starting at $17.70, The USB Christmas Tree at $4.38 and the Snowman at $3.97.

Budgetgadgets.com also has thousands of other gadgets and very good prices.  However, you had better hurry; these items ship from Hong Kong and if you don’t get them ordered soon, it may be too late to get them by the holiday.

What I liked: Festive.  The only decoration in my cube now.

What needs improvement: It’s a low speed hub

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Joel is a system admin for a local college in Columbus, OH. While he loves Linux and tend to use it more than anything else, he will stoop to running closed source if it is the best tool for the job. His techno passions are Linux, Android, netbooks, GPS, podcasting and Personal Media Players.

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