Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"I finally got a new laptop with a lone USB 3.0 port. I'm now looking at getting a USB 3.0 hub with a power adapter so I can use both of my USB 3.0 hard drives at faster speeds. I've read lots of horror stories where some hubs either don't come with power adapters -- and as a consequence the portable drives don't work with them properly -- or they are designed poorly which results in USB 2.0 speeds. Or, the hard drives keep getting disconnected. Do your readers have any suggestions or experience using USB 3.0 hubs? Thanks!"
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It, like most of the "antitheft" or "antipiracy" solutions it will only trouble legal users (drm, wga, sony rootkit anybody?). For a thief it will never be a problem. You will get third party firmware/guardian circuit replacements/whatever the very next day it appears. Just like nobody can't stop me to stick the line out of a drm playing device to the line in of a recording device, nobody will stop me to stick two wires from the battery to a general li-ion charger available for 5 bucks.
But it will be a great pain in the "asymmetrical photons" to anybody using, selling or making third party chargers... A manufacturer will probably be required to license the damn thing before using it, even if he can circumvent it. And that means... right more money !
So... I got an ipod second hand. When I connected it to my pc ran itunes. It now doesnt charge the battery. I charged the battery through hacking it into an ipod mini and charging it to full. Doesn`t matter about the charger. Generic or apple. Its when you sync thru the pc that it does its b*&lox. Now I put the freshly charged, (new battery) into my ipod sync to pc. It drains the battery in ten minutes then it wont charge ,even with the original apple charger. So, smart arses wheres the guardian cicuit hack????