SUMMARY: Users updating their Apple Mac system from macOS Mojave 10.14 to macOS Catalina 10.15 can experience problems with Plugable products based on DisplayLink technology not working. Plugable does not officially support using our DisplayLink products with macOS, however we want to provide some background information and a procedure that can potentially get things working […]
Synopsis The installation of macOS 10.15 Catalina will disable older drivers for some devices and devices which rely on these drivers will no longer function until a compatible driver is reinstalled. Most Plugable products are not affected by this, with the exception of our USB Ethernet adapters that use ASIX Gigabit Ethernet chips (models: USBC-E1000, […]
Background One of the biggest changes in macOS 10.15 (Catalina) is support for 32-bit legacy applications has been phased out. Catalina and future versions of macOS operating system support only 64-bit applications. (You can read more about this in our Catalina blog post and on Apple’s site if interested.) As a result, if you’ve recently […]
macOS 10.15 Catalina is expected to release to the public on October 4th, 2019. This post will briefly outline some of the major structural changes in Catalina, and we’ll have follow-up posts which cover how some specific Plugable products are affected by these changes. The two changes we expect to have the highest user impact […]
Plugable Technologies, a Redmond, WA based company and top global brand for USB products and docking stations, has raised prices to account for the new “List 4a” tariffs that took effect Sept 1, 2019. Over 30 of Plugable’s products saw an increase in tax from zero to 15% for goods imported into the USA from […]
Word spread around the Plugable offices like wildfire; “Raspberry Pi 4 is coming!” “Did you hear you can choose from 1, 2, or 4 gigabytes (GB) of ram?” “Is it true that it has two micro HDMI ports and can support two 4K displays” “I heard it features two USB 3.0 ports, think of the […]
It’s that time of the year again when summer slowly starts to come to an end and it’s time to get ready for back to school. This year we’ve decided to help get your kiddo (or yourself) excited for school with our Back to School Guide. Whether you’re going to school or work these must […]
In late 2016 Plugable released our first mechanical keyboards with blue “clicky” Cherry MX style switches for typing enthusiasts and gamers. Today, we’re excited to announce the addition of two new models, both in 104 key “full-size” and 87 key “tenkeyless” (no number pad) form factors with Outemu Red linear switches! Visually our two new […]
A Desktop Experience Through Your Phone We’re excited to announce Plugable’s first USB-C Phone Docking Station (UD-CUBE-15W) — the Phone Cube! With a compatible DeX-enabled Samsung Galaxy smartphone or tablet, you’ll be able to connect your phone to the dock and hook up an HDMI display to drive a full-on desktop experience. This doesn’t mean […]
You may have to reinstall drivers for your DisplayLink dock after installing the latest Windows 10 update. Continuing with their practice of providing frequent large updates to Windows 10, Microsoft released the ‘Windows 10 May 2019 Update’ for Windows 10 on May 21st, 2019 and with this update there are many fixes and enhancements to […]
