The first Thunderbolt 5 dock appears to have arrived

The caller dock claims to support up to 3 4K monitors aliases 2 8K monitors connected Windows, aliases dual 6K monitors connected MacBook Pros pinch M1 Pro chips aliases better. It besides offers up to 120Gbps speeds for connected peripherals — assuming your machine has a Thunderbolt 5 port, anyhow. Last we checked, only a single $4,500 type of the Razer Blade 18 has that port, though PCWorld points out the $3,899 Maingear ML-17 now has 1 arsenic well.

But moreover if you don’t person Thunderbolt 5 yet, the Kensington has different instrumentality up its ports. It’s 1 of the very fewer (maybe the only?) Thunderbolt dock to connection 140W USB-C PD charging, successful lawsuit you’ve sewage a laptop that tin usage that much.

You won’t get 140 watts pinch a 16-inch MacBook Pro, arsenic it only supports 140W complete MagSafe, and MagSafe doesn’t transportation information — but it should springiness you astatine slightest 100W of power.

Technically, the USB-C PD modular now goes up to 240W, but nary institution has yet shipped a charger that comes close, and docks typically apical retired astatine 100W. HP and Lenovo person docks that connection 230W complete a azygous cable, but those cables person 2 heads and are meant for circumstantial workstation laptops, not standardized USB-C ones.

Thunderbolt 5 won’t genuinely get breathtaking until we tin make usage of each its velocity — nary Thunderbolt 5 retention drives person yet shipped, to my knowledge. But OWC did conscionable unfastened pre-orders for the Envoy Ultra, which claims 6,000MB/sec transportation speeds and a claimed merchandise day of October 2024.

Also, it would thief if prices came down! The caller Kensington dock will vessel later this period for $400, and the OWC Envoy Ultra will costs $400 for 2TB aliases $600 for 4TB. It arrives “late October.”