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I'm looking for some information that I cant seem to get a concrete answer to:

 

Recently, I received a Lenovo X1 Carbon laptop from work to replace the desktop PC they previously issued. I'm sure the laptop itself is fine, but I just can't use it with the same efficiency, so I immediately wanted to connect my USB peripherals to it...only to find that it has only 2 USB 3.X ports.

 

So I was considering the use of a USB hub to connect the following devices to it:

  1. Logitech M100 or M170 USB 2.0 mouse
  2. ASUS OEM or generic USB 2.0 keyboard
  3. Logitech C920 USB 2.0 webcam
  4. Blue Snowball USB 2.0 mic

Seeing how the ports are USB 3.X and the devices are 2.0, would I be able to use a USB 3.0 hub for it? I guess the webcam would be the most bandwidth-hungry so can offload it on one of the 3.0 ports and have the other 3 devices in a hob on the other one, but I still have concerns on possible bandwidth or power-related issues.

 

Any tips of advise on this would be greatly appreciated.

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What you said is perfectly correct and will be fine. 

Webcam gets it's own connection and the other 3 can share. 

Mouse and keyboard use literally no bandwidth at all and microphone will be very little. 

USB 3 can carry a lot of data. 

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3 hours ago, FloRolf said:

What you said is perfectly correct and will be fine. 

Webcam gets it's own connection and the other 3 can share. 

Mouse and keyboard use literally no bandwidth at all and microphone will be very little. 

USB 3 can carry a lot of data. 

Should I be worried about the devices' power consumption? I guess USB 3.0 can carry more power as well but just to be sure since I'm currently looking at a HAMA non-powered hub (https://uk.hama.com/00012325/hama-14-usb-31-hub-incl-usb-c-adapter-bus-powered-black), price seems nice on it.

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