Macbook Pro with ThunderBolt Dock A Solid Solution?

[streamtech]

The UK Caldigit store has some reconditioned USBC Pro Docks (Display Type), at £159 each.

I'm running one with a 16 inch 32 Max laptop and twin 4k External monitors. No issues I have noticed in the week I have had it. Charging works fine over the single cable. I've not pushed the machine hard, but guess I could always plug in the Apple brick charger if I had to.

Really impressed with it to be honest. It pretty much worked straight out the box.

 

[PeterJP]

I'm running a CalDigit TB4 dock fine with my 14". It gives 60W of power "only" but that's plenty. Power metering showed the laptop barely uses more when on full power (CPU+GPU). So don't misread the 140W power supply as an indication of how much you will need. It's got all that power to fast-charge. As a matter of fact, I can charge my 14" M1Max with my 12W iPad Pro power supply while connected to a USB mouse and USB keyboard and connected to an external 4K screen.

 

[macphoto861]

I'm running a CalDigit TB4 dock fine with my 14". It gives 60W of power "only" but that's plenty. Power metering showed the laptop barely uses more when on full power (CPU+GPU). So don't misread the 140W power supply as an indication of how much you will need. It's got all that power to fast-charge. As a matter of fact, I can charge my 14" M1Max with my 12W iPad Pro power supply while connected to a USB mouse and USB keyboard and connected to an external 4K screen.

Yeah, these new machines apparently really do use significantly less power than the previous generation. My dock provides about 85w, and the i9 would sometimes consume just a little bit more than that during CPU-intensive operations. But watching the power usage of my 16" Pro Max during similar tasks, it stays at about 50w. However, a hypothetical worst-case scenario of simultaneous full CPU and full GPU usage looked like it ran at about 70w (though I did see a momentary peak of about 90w), so that's something to keep in mind for the machines with more GPU cores. But based on what I've seen so far, and given the fact that I'm generally never going to run full CPU and full GPU, I wouldn't have a problem buying a 60w dock.

 

[Hjupter Cerrud]

so what's the best dock option for a M1 Max with Apple Pro Display XDR?
I was planning to get the Anker TB4 dock but I'm a bit worried about having wake up issues with the screen