Seems extremely cheap for a true Thunderbolt 3 dock. I purchased one for my MacBook Pro (as I'm looking for a true one-cable setup for work) - there's not a tonne of info online, but how wrong can you go. Only big omission is more USB-A ports, but this can resolved with a cheap adapter connected to one of the USB-C ports.
It does dual 4K 60Hz outputs (one over DisplayPort, one over USB-C), which is what I'm looking for.
…especially since modern OS vendors (I'm looking at you, Apple!!) seriously broke DisplayLink technology last year. I'd be curious how well this dock works, I've been looking for a decent one that doesn't break the bank, but most of them nudge $500 or more.
Yeah DisplayLink is what prompted this purchase… Bought a Dell D6000 back from the US (which wasn't cheap either!) and the choppiness on my screen @ 4K made me shudder. Requested a return from Amazon and bought this instead.
I highly recommend the Caldigit TS3Plus fi you want something decent. 85w Laptop charging, ports for days and TB3 passthrough. I got mine on sale for $350 while back very much worth the money. Especially of you are an apple user.
I was looking at that but I just couldn't justify paying almost double what this one cost. It's so nice looking though.
Yeah totally get ya, The TS3 was only an extra $130. In my case I had put off buying a dock for over a year, and was about to buy a second MBP charger for $120 but thought I'd do some research again and landed on the TS3 for an extra $230, I have TB3 LG monitor TB2 HDD with passthrough and Apollo Twin Audio device all daisy chained. plus a bunch of HDDs, and USB Auth keys for some software with the TS3, I've managed a true 1 chord solution that seems to be working really well. But that is my use case. If you only need to add a couple of ports this ATEN seems a good deal.
If the ATEN doesn't work out, I'll definitely grab the TS3 and be done with it. Sick of dealing with dodgy dongles, and the TS3 oozes quality even in the product shots :)
Second this! Using TS3Plus right now myself. Has been running solid.
I very reluctantly bought one of these as well 6 months ago for my MBP. Yeah, it works, but boy is that thing overpriced… :(
But meaningful use of the MBP as a desktop replacement is almost impossible without a decent dock.
Argh!,…. This looks like a pretty good deal. Downside is that I just bought 3x Lenovo docks for work the other day for $299 each.
Ahh well, not my money I guess but still annoying.
I almost bought that one! Doesn't look like it has great compatibility with macOS, that was the only thing that stopped me.
Which Lenovo dock was that? Looking for one myself.
Was leaning towards Kensington SD3500
Soz, I'm late back to this thread. We use the Lenovo USB-C docks at my workplace, and I've had to connect my 13" MBP a couple of times. You can't get extended display across both of the DisplayPorts out of the dock, it will only do mirror mode. The solution I had to come up with was 1 x monitor from the DP off the dock and 1 x monitor from the second Thunderbolt port on the MacBook (in my case, I used a USB-C dongle with HDMI adapter). That allowed me to extend across all monitors but nowhere close to a 'single cable' solution.
Damn, out of stock already!
Good price for a TB3 dock! I would recommend that anyone who wants to dock their laptop over USB-C spring for a real TB3 dock rather than a shitty DisplayLink one.