Maybe you'll just need to charge your iPad and use an external hard drive or a two-factor authentication key.

If you're always on the move and you don't need a mouse or a keyboard, you won't have this problem. Of course, this may be fine depending on what you do with your laptop. If you use a USB keyboard and mouse, you don't have any spare ports to charge devices, hook up an external hard drive, or connect a printer. This restrictive number of ports really isn't great in our current USB-saturated landscape. While there are some laptops out there that come with a bunch of USB ports, many only have two.

You Want to Increase the Number of USB Ports on a Laptop Now that we've explored what a USB hub is used for, let's explore some use-cases where you might want to grab one.ġ.