[havyn]

Hi,

Found some nice-looking products and was wondering if anyone knew about them and the company that makes them, and how they fair against products from other Mac hardware companies.

I have a 12" pbook that will be used 50/50 for desktop/around the house and work, and I was looking at getting both a stand or cooling pad (have same effect mostly), and a USB hub so I don't have to plug a ton of stuff in every time I come back to the desk. The products I am looking at are from Macally, which I am not familiar with. Any suggestions or testimonials?

How does this fair against the Coolpad: http://www.macally.com/new/new_icepad.html

And this agains the iCurve: http://www.macally.com/new/new_icestation.html

And this is the hub I am looking at. It is a little $$$ but it has 4 USB 2.0 ports and 2 Firewire (so I could plug everything - camera, ipod, mouse, etc. - into it and just plug in the hub and the AC when I get home). Seems nice, but haven't found any reviews yet: http://www.macally.com/spec/usb/input_device/hubs.html

I think there is also another type of cooling pad that also doubles as a 'handle' for toting the pbook...sounds nice but don't know if that is a good idea or not. (edit: apparently, not available yet for my system: http://www.themacshoppe.biz/ti_tote.html)

Thanks for your input, I don't really know where to shop for these things yet. Surprised I have any money left to shop with actually...