The OWC’s Thunderbolt 4 dock has three open ports that can be used for Thunderbolt or USB-C devices.
Other World Computing
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If you have a newer laptop that doesn’t have as many ports as you would like, the peripheral manufacturer Other World Computing has a new Thunderbolt 4 Dock which may interest you to connect storage devices, network cables, headphones and external monitors. The $ 249 dock works with Macs running Apple’s new Big Sur operating system and Windows laptops with 11th generation Intel Core processors (codenamed Tiger Lake) – the only laptops that support the new Thunderbolt 4 version of high-end connection technology Intel speed.
Docks are useful when you want to connect your laptop to multiple devices when you arrive at work or the home office. A single cable connected to a single laptop port accommodates a wide variety of devices.
A major improvement with Thunderbolt 4 is that you can now connect multiple Thunderbolt devices to a hub or dock instead of just one. The new Thunderbolt Dock from OWC has three Thunderbolt ports, and you can also connect USB-C devices to them. Thunderbolt 4 should also work more reliably on Windows laptops, but its maximum speed of 40 gigabits per second is the same as that of Thunderbolt 3.
The new OWC Thunderbolt Dock, announced at this year’s CES online only, has the following: three Thunderbolt 4 ports that also accept USB-C devices; a fourth Thunderbolt port that connects to the PC and provides up to 90 watts of charging power; an old-style USB-A port running at relatively slow USB 2 speeds, good for devices such as keyboards; three USB-A ports running at faster speeds of 10 Gbps; a gigabit Ethernet port; an SD card slot; and a 3.5 mm audio port for headphones or microphones.
Each Thunderbolt port on the dock can handle up to two 4K monitors or an 8K monitor.
Other OWC devices at CES 2021
OWC also announced several other products at CES:
O Envoy Pro FX robust external hard drive, available in sizes from 240 GB to 2 TB, connects to USB-A, USB-C and Thunderbolt ports. It will be available in January. Costs are $ 169 for 240 GB, $ 199 for 480 GB, $ 299 for 1 TB and $ 479 for 2 TB. The units are resistant to dust and water and can transfer data at 2,800 megabytes per second.
$ 65 USB-C Travel Dock E it has two 3.2 Gbps USB-A ports, an HDMI 2.0 port, an SD card reader, a Gigabit Ethernet port and a USB-C port for connecting your laptop’s power adapter. It will be available before the end of March.
O U2 Shuttle, 3.5-inch drive box that accommodates up to four NVMe M.2 flash memory based SSDs. The four storage modules can be connected as RAID devices for better data protection. The $ 149 U2 Shuttle, available in January, can be connected to computers with a U.2 port and some OWC storage devices.
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