Elgato Thunderbolt Dock

[rodrigoluizb]

Doing my daily browsing on 9to5mac i found a review of this:

http://www.elgato.com/en/thunderbolt/thunderbolt-dock

The new elgato thunderbolt dock. For months i was decided to get the caldigit dock, but this seems to be my new choice for my mid2011 iMac (i NEED usb3 ports). Now i'm waiting for some reviews on youtube to see this little buddy working on.

 

[drsox]

Doing my daily browsing on 9to5mac i found a review of this:

http://www.elgato.com/en/thunderbolt/thunderbolt-dock

The new elgato thunderbolt dock. For months i was decided to get the caldigit dock, but this seems to be my new choice for my mid2011 iMac (i NEED usb3 ports). Now i'm waiting for some reviews on youtube to see this little buddy working on.

Looks good.

 

[alexgaribay]

The most appealing feature about this dock to me is the ability to use two external displays.

 

[smellalot]

The most appealing feature about this dock to me is the ability to use two external displays.

The sad thing is this only drives one display just like all the other thunderbolt docks You must have some wrong information.

I use two externals which makes all of the thunderbolt docks useless to me.

Edit: also this looks exactly like the caldigit so I think it is the same device in a different housing.

 

[hollandog]

does it fix the issues the Caldigit unit have?

- high pitch whine when in save mode with both TB port connected.
- external speaker popping when mbp is sleeping.

 

[Tulani]

Looks pretty good

 

[Marty62]

It does look almost exactly like the Caldigit.

I use the Belkin Thunderbolt Express, no HDMI but I needed the USB3.0 and
the FW800 port.
No issues, other than the USB3.0 limited to 2.5GB/s rather than 5GB/s

However this does NOT impact on my drive performance, they cannot do
anywhere near 5GB/s anyway !!
( well perhaps 2 x SSD's in Raid zero could ! )

M.

 

[alexgaribay]

The sad thing is this only drives one display just like all the other thunderbolt docks You must have some wrong information.

I use two externals which makes all of the thunderbolt docks useless to me.

Edit: also this looks exactly like the caldigit so I think it is the same device in a different housing.

Aw dang. I assumed it would since there would be a open thunderbolt port and hdmi.

After reading a support article, you can use both open ports at once to drive two displays in some cases. However the use-case for me doesn't apply. I was hoping to use a mDP and hdmi connection but they can't be used at the same time.

 

[smellalot]

Aw dang. I assumed it would since there would be a open thunderbolt port and hdmi.

After reading a support article, you can use both open ports at once to drive two displays in some cases. However the use-case for me doesn't apply. I was hoping to use a mDP and hdmi connection but they can't be used at the same time.

Yes of course. I didn't think of the case where one of the two displays is a thunderbolt device (the Apple Thunderbolt Display) itself. Sadly anyone who has a Thunderbolt Display doesn't really need this dock anyway