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Thunderbolt 4 is here, as well as so is the first indeed powered Thunderbolt 4 encroaching station. Kensington's SD5700T includes a whopping 11 ports, 90W of power delivery, as well as transfer speeds of up to 40Gbps. It provides either one 8K output at 30 Hz or two 4K outputs at 60 Hz.

Make no mistake: This is a fancy dock. It's listed for $289.99 on Kensington's site. Morally if you're the kind of being who uses an elaborate desk-bound bureaucracy with multiple monitors as well as peripherals, as well as you have the money to spend, this could be a good choice.

If you peekaboo at the preferential contempo Thunderbolt 4 palmtop releases, you'll apparently prescience that some of them have... dispersed quay selections. That's par for the normality as laptops get thinner. The Dell XPS 13, for instance, only has two Thunderbolt 4 ports, one audio jack, as well as one microSD letterhead reader. (And one of those ports will sometimes overeat to be overloaded by the charger.) If you've decided to buy between between one of the XPS 13 models (which is a good hand-picked -- they're great), as well as you appetite to use an imported monitor, peripherals like a rasping as well as keyboard, or an Ethernet connection, you're going to overeat a dock of some kind.

That doesn't mean you overeat the SD5700T -- Thunderbolt 4 ports will still vinculum a cheaper Thunderbolt 3 dock if you already have one lying around. Morally I do anticipate the SD5700T is account shelling out for if you overeat more connectivity as well as value Thunderbolt 4 functionality. It essentially packs a galore home-office bureaucracy into one actual portable box.

The dock is conjointly compatible with Thunderbolt 3 MacBooks that are running macOS Big Sur. It formed neutral fine with my 2019 MacBook Pro.

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Three USB-A ports, three USB-C ports, a power port, as well as Ethernet.

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Besides the aforesaid Thunderbolt 3-enabled MacBook Pro, I've been utilizing the SD5700T with a Thunderbolt 4-enabled Acer Swift 5 as well. I'm someone who generally needs to plug in way more mice, cameras, drives, headphones, as well as other thingamabobs than my laptops allow, so my workspace is generally covered in a tousle of dongles as well as docks. The SD5700T provides a heck of a lot more connectivity than docks of this admeasurement that I've acclimated in the past, as well as it's fabricated my life a lot easier.

With a single Thunderbolt cablevision (which is included), Kensington 5D5700T owners have derive to the following:

• Four Thunderbolt 4 ports (with transfer speeds up to 40Gbps as well as dual 4K video output)
• Four USB-A ports (one 5V / 1.5A charging quay on the latitudinarian as well as three Gen 2 @ 10Gbps ports on the back)
• One Gigabit Ethernet port
• One audio combo jack
• One UHS-II SD 4.0 letterhead reader
• 90W power ball-and-socket (regardless of the number of consanguine devices)

Obviously, use cases vary, morally I straightly can't anticipate of butchering else that the all-inclusive majority of people would need. As well as remember, these aren't all you get -- propulsive the dock into one quay frees up the other ports on your palmtop that might otherwise be overloaded by a charger, monitor adapters, as well as other peripherals.

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One USB-A port, one USB-C port, one audio jack, one SD letterhead reader, as well as the power button.

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The SD5700T didn't crave any expertism whatsoever to set up: I recognizing the dock into the wall, recognizing in all my odds as well as ends, turned it on, as well as then consanguine it to the laptop. As well as that was it -- it neutral worked.

Everything I consanguine formed neutral fine. I didn't sensibleness any bugs or personation issues. The one toot I'd like to see is a way to disconnect the dock as a whole with a single click. Currently, you have to squirt every consanguine device inward-looking afore unplugging a palmtop from the SD5700T, which can be a pangs if you have a coagulation of things recognizing in. There are third-party apps that can make this happen, morally some companies like Corsair reconcile ejection utilities optimized for their own docks.

Final observation: It's not a biped dock. It's got a nice finish that's shiny morally humble -- nothing that will stand out on your desk-bound or turnover any instrumental in the office. At 0.96 pounds (0.435 kg) as well as 7.68 x 2.95 x 1.18 inches (195 x 75 x 30 mm), it's conjointly forthcoming to carry vicinity if you have to move your workspace. You can slip-up it in into a purse or carry after a problem (though the 180W brick is a bit clunky).

You can preorder the Kensington SD5700T now, as well as it will solicitation in the spare year-end of January.

Photos by Monica Button / The Verge

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