Wesley Hilliard
The new Belkin Connect Pro Thunderbolt 4 Dock has a multitude of port types and can be daisy-chained with other Thunderbolt accessories.
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
Customers can purchase the Belkin Connect Pro Thunderbolt 4 Dock directly from the Belkin website. It is priced at $399.99 and includes a 0.8m Thunderbolt 4 cable and 120W power supply.
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That’s over $100 more expensive than the more flexible OWC Dock that has the just one less USB-C 3.2 port. (+2 TB4, +1 USB3, -2 HDMI, -1 USB2, -1 USB3C). I don’t think that one port is worth the premium.
I am amazed there's no USB-C hub. I don't want USB-A, I don't want HDMI, I just want all USB-C ports. All modern devices use USB-C. Why are there no USB-C hub?
Where are these "all" (modern devices using USB-C ports) beyond Apple-branded tech?
"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.