Belkin Releases Pro Thunderbolt 4 Dock for Apple and Windows Devices

[Peter_Brosdahl]

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Belkin has released the Pro Thunderbolt 4 dock, which supports the connecting of up to three displays to a single device. The dock can also provide up to 90 W of power delivery via its USB-C 3.1 Gen 2 port, which supports fast charging. Display compatibility includes resolutions up to 8K @ 60 Hz. The Thunderbolt 4 port can reach transfer speeds of 40 Gbps with compatible devices.



Other connectivity options include a Gigabit Ethernet port, 2x USB-A 3.1 ports, 2x USB-A 2.0 ports, and 2x HDMI 2.0 ports. An SD card reader is also included. MSRP is $399.99.



Create the ultimate workstation with our Pro Thunderbolt 4 Dock. It has 12 ports to connect your MacBook or Windows laptop to multiple devices, video, ethernet, and power through a single Thunderbolt 4 cable. Get up to 40Gbps data transfer speeds—that’s 8x faster than USB 3.0. Charge your...

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[Grimlakin]

It missed the boat on a network port good for 10/5/2.5/1 gigabit. If it had had that one omission it would have been awesome.

 

[Peter_Brosdahl]

It missed the boat on a network port good for 10/5/2.5/1 gigabit. If it had had that one omission it would have been awesome.

Agreed. It honestly is kind of bizarre they didn't go that far considering how much was already stuffed into this. It really would've made sense to have as well.

 

[Brian_B]

It has 1 Gigabit ethernet. Not really sure that anything faster would do many people a lot of good.... half the point of Thunderbolt is that the fast storage is directly attached to the computer, not out on a network.

If you needed fast ethernet - USB to 5Gb exists, as does Thunderbolt to 10Gb SFP - but those are fairly specialized and not swiss army knife, one tool does it all style peripherals. They are fairly pricey just by themselves.

 

[Grimlakin]

It has 1 Gigabit ethernet. Not really sure that anything faster would do many people a lot of good.... half the point of Thunderbolt is that the fast storage is directly attached to the computer, not out on a network.

If you needed fast ethernet - USB to 5Gb exists, as does Thunderbolt to 10Gb SFP - but those are fairly specialized and not swiss army knife, one tool does it all style peripherals. They are fairly pricey just by themselves.

We disagree in the usefulness of faster network connectivity.

Manufacturers will need to get on board as TODAY in areas near me you can get 5 gigabit ethernet. With no connections able to take advantage of that for consumer grade devices it's just a number. But as competition breeds more upgrades having connection for consumers that can utilize that broader bandwidth will be useful to consumers. Belkin is missing the boat here in my opinion on having a device that will have great future use.