Excellent Thunderbolt 4 Dock discounted for black friday at RonaRigs.
They've been excellent to deal with in the past.
Price includes shipping and specs can be found on Dell's website (where they're selling it for $650..)
Supports multiple monitors and fast charging and other stuff.
https://www.dell.com/en-au/work/shop/dell-thunderbolt-dock-w…
Got a link? I can only find $439 on amazon
Agreed. The "normal price" from the research I've been doing off and on over the past few weeks is around $420ish, with sales around $370. At $350 it's a good actual sale price. They might be thinking of the WD19?
Youre both right. US amazon + GST + import fees + shipping = around $400
Still my main point is that $612 is totally crap.
@lunchbox99: Oh I completely agree. No way you're paying $612. Unless it's for a government department. 😂
Don’t know why you were negged. It’s been around $359 at Centrecom for a couple of weeks now. Got Dell to price match them and purchased it recently.
Dell does this a bit, put the price up to something ridiculous for a while so they can advertise 50% off, which is slightly lower than their normal price.
Agreed, you wonder how they think they're going to sell any when these are usually ~$400-420.
This thing has a very audible fan. Be aware for Mac user who has quite set ups.
Yeah its very loud.
I have one at my office at work and one at home and they both are loud.
My work uses dell laptops, monitors, and their docks.
We've been through 3 different models.
I personally have been through 4 docks in a year.
Can I just say that Dell produces one of the biggest pile of craps in this century, I mean sure a dock is probably quite sophisticated, but my god, if you can't make one that works, just stop producing them.
I mean yeah sure I've heard that to them their consumer grade stuff isn't their focus, and it's all enterprise, but I am pretty sure it's only a matter of time for another business to come and eat up their consumer side of the business.
Have you applied the firmware updates to it? I have 3 and they all work fine.
Yep, we have a third party company that manages our ones, and all firmware is up to date.
It's definitely not just me, because every single person in our company has gone through at least two dock's.
Furthermore they're not related to just one batch, because dell ran out and we had to go on back order for many months as well.
Lots of Dell stuff was on back order for months due to covid related supply chain issues - like virtually every tech product on earth. My last laptop (high end latitude) took 6 months to arrive.
In any case, my experience at work doesn't match yours. No idea why.
Wtf you doing to then. My wd19tbs working perfectly. 2 screens, peripherals, webcam. Maxing it out.
Lenovo docks are the bull crap
I'm envious. At least the docks are suitable for the laptops. Am still sourcing a Lenovo dock that can power the Legion i7 I gotten last year.
Good luck using it. It will overheating as it doesnt gave fan
So this is likely a dumb question but I've used older dell tb docks with a HP laptop. But a limitation was always it timing out if not used for a time and not being able to do firmware updates on the device from a non dell laptop. So question if anyone knows. Can you do firmware updates to this dock from a non dell laptop?
I've had this for my Mac, got rid of it because I couldn't stand the fan, also needed SD.
Bought a Dynabook thunderbolt 4 dock and its absolutely brilliant, cheaper too.
hey mate, I got my Dynabook today. Using it with an MBP 16" M1 Max and two screens, for some reason when plugged in through the provided Thunderbolt 4 cable it detects the two monitors as "one" hence. Did you face this problem?
No I only have one external monitor, a CRG9. My understanding is an M1 Max supports up to 4 external displays though.
Thanks mate. Ended up connecting one monitor via DP and another as the USB-C downstream and that did the trick (i.e. macOS detected the monitor as individual ones). With both connected via DP, they were detected as one monitor for some odd reason. Cheers
@kior22: Oh brilliant, perhaps 2 x DP through the dock is a software limitation. I guess usb c to DP achieves the same result anyway.
No offence but that $612 price at dell is bullcrap. This price is the normal price.
You can buy one on Amazon for $305