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  • The best Thunderbolt 3 docks for your Mac in 2020

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    melgross said:
    Look very carefully before buying one of these things. The specifications can be tricky to understand, and worse, they may not even work on Macs with newer OS versions. I recently bought a TB 3 dock from OWC. But you have to download software for high power delivery. But on Catalina, Apple doesn’t allow that software to install, so no power delivery.

    i took some time to decide which dock to buy, and even though I paid $300 (on sale), not every feature works for such an expensive device.

    be careful, just seeing a list of features doesn’t tell you that they will work as expected, or at all.
    We have a new version of the OWC Dock Ejector software, released on July 24, 2020, which installs also installs the driver required for enabling the high powered ports.  This version fixes the problem which sometimes prevented the high power ports from working correctly on macOS 10.15.  I am using with my Apple SuperDrive connected to my OWC 14 Port Thunderbolt 3 Dock and it works perfectly.  (The Apple SuperDrive only works when connect to a high power port on a dock or directly connected to a Mac).

    We pride ourselves in promptly addressing problems users are encountering with our software.  I apologize that we did not catch the problem with the high power ports sooner.

    We are currently working on the next version, which will support Big Sur, macOS 11.0.  I expect it to ship before Apple ships the final release of this new version of macOS.

    Tim Standing
    VP Software Development - Mac
    Other World Computing, Inc.
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