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As a Windows user, you’re largely limited to laptops with Thunderbolt 4 connections. That pushes a Thunderbolt 5 dock — and a pricy one — a little out of reach for most people. The runner-up in my list of the best Thunderbolt docks is a Thunderbolt 5 docking station, but it’s under $300. Support for three displays, additional adapter cables, and the useful though still niche Thunderbolt Share technology certainly justify a bit of the additional cost — well, if you own a Thunderbolt 5 laptop. But for me, this dock is priced too high for what it offers to the majority of Windows PC users. I just
My testing revealed the catch in Targus' sexy-sounding Thunderbolt 5 Triple Video dockWell, sure. That’s what second mortgages are for. Seriously, this dock is substantially more than the $250 or so I expect as the price of a Thunderbolt 4 dock. I get it — Thunderbolt 5’s component costs are higher than Thunderbolt 4, and premium features like the optical connection, CompactFlash slot, and the M.2 SSD repository cost more to engineer in. Truly, though, this dock caters to the high-end creative professional: The CompactFlash slot for the photography hobby on the side; the high-end optical connection for a set of studio speakers on the desk; the power of Thunderbolt 5 alongside t
Tested: Kensington's Thunderbolt 5 dock justifies its enormous price tag… PCWorld's Adam Patrick Murray spotted it on the floor at Computex 2026 in Taipei, and now you can watch him walk you through what sure looks like the future of Intel's Core Ultra desktop CPU line firsthand—including what looks suspiciously like a set of Thunderbolt 5 ports. …
… Best Prices Today: StarTech.com Thunderbolt 4/USB4 Quad Display Docking Station Retailer Price £252.82 View Deal Product Price Author: Mark Hachman , Senior Editor, PCWorld Mark has written for PCWorld for the last decade, with 30 years of experience covering technology. …
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… Best Prices Today: Targus Thunderbolt 5 Triple Video Docking Station Retailer Price Targus $399.99 View Deal Product Price Author: Mark Hachman , Senior Editor, PCWorld Mark has written for PCWorld for the last decade, with 30 years of experience covering technology. …
… Best Prices Today: Kensington SD7100T5 EQ Pro 19-in-1 Thunderbolt 5 Docking Station Retailer Price Kensington $449.99 View Deal Product Price Author: Mark Hachman , Senior Editor, PCWorld Mark has written for PCWorld for the last decade, with 30 years of experience covering technology. …
… Best Prices Today: KYY Laptop Triple Screen Extender Retailer Price £880.16 View Deal Product Price Author: Mark Hachman , Senior Editor, PCWorld Mark has written for PCWorld for the last decade, with 30 years of experience covering technology. …
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… A solid sale on StarTech's quad-display Thunderbolt 4 dock was good enough to elevate it to the top of my preferred list. I've reviewed dozens of Thunderbolt laptop docking stations over the past five years in forming PCWorld's recommendations for the best laptop docking stations. …
… What should I buy: Thunderbolt 3, Thunderbolt 4, or Thunderbolt 5? It's not a bad idea to match your laptop's hardware specification to the dock: Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 3, Thunderbolt 4 to Thunderbolt 4, and so on. …
… If your laptop uses either Thunderbolt 3 or Thunderbolt 4 or USB4 -- all of which use a 40Gbps data connection and a USB-C port on your laptop -- you should probably have no issues connecting your laptop to the monitor at the full refresh rate using a Thunderbolt cable. …
