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OWC Takes $100 Off Popular 14-Port Thunderbolt Dock During Its Spring Sale

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OWC's Spring Sale continues this week, offering solid discounts on a variety of USB-C docks, memory cards, external drives and enclosures, and Mac accessories. This time around, all of the deals have been applied automatically and you won't need to wait for any coupons to be applied in your cart in order to see the discounts.

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There are a few notable deals in this sale, including $100 off the popular 14-Port Thunderbolt Dock for Mac, available for $179.99. If you purchase a qualifying new or used Mac at the same time as this dock, you can get an additional $20 off the accessory at checkout.


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Article Link: OWC Takes $100 Off Popular 14-Port Thunderbolt Dock During Its Spring Sale
 
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I always thought that a dock referred to a physical docking thing, not just extending the ports.

So these, to me, are hubs, not docks.
 
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irrg said:
I always thought that a dock referred to a physical docking thing, not just extending the ports.

So these, to me, are hubs, not docks.
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They are generally called docks. Hubs generally don't include a bazillion different kinds of ports. Docks have a plethora of different ports. The docks to which you are referring are pretty uncommon these days.
 
irrg said:
I always thought that a dock referred to a physical docking thing, not just extending the ports.

So these, to me, are hubs, not docks.
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In general use, the term dock now basically means a large hub meant to stay in one place, usually with its own power supply. A hub is more often portable and depends on bus power from the attached computer or the laptop's USB-C charging cable. Docks used to attach to laptops in some way, and were pretty fiddly when they did, especially the ones that tried to attach to all the side (and sometimes rear) ports on a laptop at once. Since most laptops have TB and that can carry all the power and data most people would need, it became easier and cheaper to make single-cable docks that can be placed independently of the laptop.

We have one of these OWC docks attached to an M2 Max Mac Studio at home, and it works flawlessly for our use case as photographers. I guess we are using it like a big hub, although in theory we could attach our MBPs to it and use them as desktop machines if needed. In practice, that's never been necessary, since most of the working files are stored on a shared DAS connected to the Studio.
 
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astrorider said:
I think nowadays hub+video output+power to mac = dock
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It should be noted that simple Thunderbolt 4 hubs these days are powered. I have a couple and they include 60 W power delivery, 3 downstream USB-C and 1 downstream USB-A.

It has no built-in video, but the ones I bought included a USB-C to HDMI dongle in the box.

Jonas Danielsson said:
Let’s hope they understand to design a hub with only USb c and non wanky usb a
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Even Intel's reference Thunderbolt 4 hub designs usually include a (single) USB-A port.
 
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EugW said:
They are generally called docks. Hubs generally don't include a bazillion different kinds of ports. Docks have a plethora of different ports. The docks to which you are referring are pretty uncommon these days.
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That's fair. I remember ones with like, eject buttons to get your macbook out of there, etc. The past's idea of the future was wild.
 
Donkey Man said:
Had one of those - extremely unreliable and kept dropping USB connections due to low energy passthrough. Ended up getting a CalDigit hub; way more stable.
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Maybe you got a dud? I'm on my 2nd (the 1st I destroyed with a spillage) and it works perfectly. As did my 1st.
 
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I've owned 2 of these. The 1st one got destroyed when I spilt a drink over it. It worked as it should up to that point.
I'm currently using the 2nd one. No issues with it either. I bought it brand new from Ebay for a fraction of the retail price.
This particular dock has been around for quite some time now. It's no longer worth what they're asking for it.
After all it is a Thunderbolt 3 dock.
 
Holy USB-A, Batman! So depressing. Who really needs to plug in anything besides an old keyboard with USB-A at this point? The only USB-A thing that should be sold now is adaptors. But instead, at the current rate of (non)adoption by manufacturers we might as well give up on USB-C altogether.
 
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EugW said:
It should be noted that simple Thunderbolt 4 hubs these days are powered. I have a couple and they include 60 W power delivery, 3 downstream USB-C and 1 downstream USB-A.

It has no built-in video, but the ones I bought included a USB-C to HDMI dongle in the box.


Even Intel's reference Thunderbolt 4 hub designs usually include a (single) USB-A port.
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Yes windows users still using usb a inhale seen any use case of then last few years
 
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