CES 2017: Elgato Introduces Thunderbolt 3 Dock With Dual 4K Display Support

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The cool thing about USB is you can buy a longer cable if your set up needs.

Agreed. It's widely available and affordable. Others feel they are being ripped off. It's not a deal breaker, but for others it is.

 

[dyn]

300$ and they can only give you a 1.6 foot cable?

Yep. The alternative would be a currently unavailable fibre optic cable that doesn't charge your notebook and thus would be rather useless. These copper cables only go up to 2m (at this length active chip gives you 40Gbps, passive only 20Gbps but passive will be cheaper).

yeah at $300 i am sure the margin is just so tight that they wouldn't afford to throw in another couple feet of wire that would have cost them like 5 cents

This has got nothing to do with margins, Elgato, etc. because it is a technical limitation of Thunderbolt 3. This is also better than with the first and second gen Thunderbolt docks where you mostly did not get a cable at all or you could order one for additional cost.

Might want to educate yourself before pointing your finger...

This is a lot for a dock. These people must be thinking something like, ''if people are paying that much for these new MacBook Pros, then a €300 dock will seem like a bargain.''

That's been the cost of docks for decades now (which btw is somewhere between 150 and 300 USD/EUR with 150 for very basic docks and 300 for these higher end models). Compared to the 400USD/EUR dock from Belkin, this one does indeed seem more like bargain.

This is just the TB3 version of their TB2 dock though.

 

[Apples Apples Everywhere]

OWC's dock still looks better. More ports, $25 less (at least with preorder), space gray. Not sure if it does a full 85w though.

OWC is 60w only. I mailed support. I would have preferred OWC if it were 85w but at 60w, no sale.

 

[Cougarcat]

OWC is 60w only. I mailed support. I would have preferred OWC if it were 85w but at 60w, no sale.

That's unfortunate, but I have a 13" so it makes no difference to me. 60w should still charge the 15", albeit slower.

 

[richpjr]

OWC is 60w only. I mailed support. I would have preferred OWC if it were 85w but at 60w, no sale.

I didn't realize that the OWC was only 60W - glad I saw this post before ordering one! Boy, the dock and hub choices for the new 15 MBP's is really pathetic.

 

[bartvk]

OWC is 60w only. I mailed support. I would have preferred OWC if it were 85w but at 60w, no sale.

Why not? My Late 2016 15" MacBook Pro consumes, on average, about 30 watts. I've seen it peak to 45 watts but not more.

 

[spazzcat]

I didn't realize that the OWC was only 60W - glad I saw this post before ordering one! Boy, the dock and hub choices for the new 15 MBP's is really pathetic.

It just came out, the 60W docks work with the 15" MBP. The only time it can't keep the computer fully changed is if it under a huge load.

 

[richpjr]

It just came out, the 60W docks work with the 15" MBP. The only time it can't keep the computer fully changed is if it under a huge load.

Which I do on occasion. I could probably live with it most of the time, but with other docks providing more power it doesn't seem to make sense to get one with less power.