Belkin reveals new 12-port Connect Pro Thunderbolt 4 Dock
The new Belkin Connect Pro Thunderbolt 4 Dock has a multitude of port types and can be daisy-chained with other Thunderbolt accessories.
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Belkin Connect Pro Thunderbolt 4 Dock
Users can connect multiple devices, 4K displays, Ethernet, and use an SD card with the Belkin Connect Pro Thunderbolt 4 Dock. It has 90W of Power Delivery for the attached computer and accessories.
The dock supports up to one 8K monitor or two 4K monitors. And thanks to Thunderbolt 4, it has 40Gbps of data transfer bandwidth.
It has the following ports:
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Belkin Connect Pro Thunderbolt 4 Dock
Users can connect multiple devices, 4K displays, Ethernet, and use an SD card with the Belkin Connect Pro Thunderbolt 4 Dock. It has 90W of Power Delivery for the attached computer and accessories.
The dock supports up to one 8K monitor or two 4K monitors. And thanks to Thunderbolt 4, it has 40Gbps of data transfer bandwidth.
It has the following ports:
- SD Card Reader
- Aux headphone jack
- USB-C 3.1 Gen 2 port with Fast Charging PD 3.0
- Thunderbolt 4 port to Computer
- Power in Two HDMI 2.0 ports
- One Thunderbolt 4 port to accessories
- Gigabit Ethernet
- Two USB-A 3.1 ports
- Two USB-A 2.0 ports
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Comments
"All" much better applies to USB-A with only some, relatively select devices (not from Apple) having a USB-C connection. If manufacturers go exclusively USB-C, many of their buyers won't have a computer to use them (unless it's a very new computer). However, if they offer USB-A, pretty much any computer from the last 2 decades will be able to directly connect. The world beyond our relatively tiny Mac bubble is enormous.
If the makers of such things believed there was a market, there would be many such hubs already available. Instead, there are hubs to connect to the computer with USB-C but then, like this one, the jacks for connecting things to the hub go with the much more "universal" type A port.
I fully appreciate the sentiment and can appreciate the ideal world of "one port to rule them all" but it seems we are still far from that ideal. Maybe in 10-15 years when pretty much everyone has turned over their computers a few more times.
Ok, one might be useful for a thumb drive, and another to charge your old iPod click-wheel, maybe…
I’m pretty most peripherals like external hard-drives etc have been shipping with both C and A cables.
If you’ve splashed the cash for a modern Mac and a Thunderbolt 4 hub, I doubt you’re still going to be using 10 year old spinning-rust drives.
Make them all USB-C and you have a buyer!
Ok, https://www.sitecom.com/en/usb-c-hub-4-port/cn-385/p/1879
about 100gb plus in size with hard drives that can
come close to handling the speed. I would really love to switch to all SSD drives but still, for me anyway, out of my price point
https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/owc-thunderbolt-dock
$279.00
/s
also /s