Thanksgiving is almost here friends! It is a period in the national annual calendar marked by religious observances and a wholesome traditional meal with family and loved ones. The holiday commemorates a harvest festival celebrated by the Pilgrim Fathers in 1621 and is held in the US on the fourth Thursday in November. A similar holiday is held in Canada, usually on the second Monday in October. In modern times, thanksgiving holiday goes hand-in-hand with a shopping spree only dwarfed by the Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and the Christmas holiday.

It is not uncommon for many shoppers to crawl out of bed before or during the thanksgiving holidays to pick up the latest laptops and best laptop accessories online, if you are planning on joining this queue, it is important for you to avoid making bad and potentially expensive purchases. (Here at Uni provides up to 50% off discounts! From 22-30 Nov.)

And in our usual fashion, we will provide you with useful tips on how to purchase the best laptop accessories for you and your loved ones. 

What makes USB-C different from USB Type-A and B?  With many OEM moving to type-C for devices including phones and tablets and some laptops, a quick search shows us that while ordinary USB-A ports are limited to just 12 watts of charging power, USB-C ports can deliver 18 watts of fast-charging power to phones, and up to 240 watts.

Also, USB-C port can support very fast speed data transfer. 

Using a USB-C hub to expand your laptop is a good choice. Uniaccessories has a host of USB-C hubs for you to choose from. 

Also, it is important to know some more tips in choosing which variant of cable is best for you.

Ensure it is USB-IF certified—meaning that it meets a set of criteria designed by the USB Implementers Forum, a nonprofit corporation run by Apple, Intel, Microsoft, and other tech giants.

They are standard cable sizes which are (and not limited to) 3.3 feet and 6.6 feet, it is imperative to have a general idea on the range or length the cable should be, depending also our lifestyles, if you are a person that works a lot outdoors or you like keeping a distance from the power source, the 6’6 /15' is a good fit for you. Cable lengths are visible on all our cable devices.

This is a bonus tip for reading this far!

For newer generation laptops with only a type-C port, then the smart thing to do is to get a type-C to type-C cable, this means, your device has been granted greater access to faster charging power and speed, not to mention quicker data transfer speed.

If you have a type-A only laptop, then you can readily purchase adapter which makes it tremendously easy to connect your accessories to your system.

An Ethernet Network Adapter is a hardware used to connect a computer to a Local Area Network (LAN). sometimes called a network interface card (NIC), an Ethernet network adapter supports Ethernet standards at high-speed networking over cables. The primary function of the device is to transmit and receive data to and from a network hub, switch, or router. Most adapters have two USB 3.0 ports for connecting peripherals and other compactible devices.

In making the decision on which kind of Ethernet Adapter to purchase it is important to consider the fastest gigabit adapter, as this provides your system with connections speeds greater than the average 100 MBs, but note that the connection speed to the internet is largely dependent on your ISPs or your routers.

Let me know in the comments if you have any questions and we would be glad to answer.