The first Thunderbolt 5 dock appears to have arrived

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

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

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

Technically, the USB-C PD modular present 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 implicit 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 marque 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 assistance if prices came down! The caller Kensington dock volition vessel aboriginal this period for $400, and the OWC Envoy Ultra volition outgo $400 for 2TB oregon $600 for 4TB. It arrives “late October.”