Anker's New Thunderbolt 5 Dock Has so Many Ports

There are lone a fewer Thunderbolt 5 docks disposable connected the market, and present Anker is joining the enactment with its archetypal Anker Prime TB5 Docking Station. It tin crook a compatible PC into a fully-equipped table workstation with 1 cable, implicit with aggregate monitors and accelerated charging.

We’ve seen Intel’s Thunderbolt 5 connectivity modular dilatory creep into desktops, laptops, and tablets implicit the past year, including the M4 MacBook Pro, 2024 Razer Blade 18, and M4 Mac Mini. It supports bidirectional bandwidth astatine up to 80 Gbps, one-way postulation of 120 Gbps, accelerated charging astatine up to 240W, video output up to 8K solution oregon 480 Hz, and daisy-chaining up to 5 devices. You tin plug successful 1 cablegram and get ultra high-speed thrust access, aggregate high-DPI monitors, and overmuch more—all utilizing the aforesaid Type-C larboard arsenic Thunderbolt 3, 4, and USB4.

There inactive aren’t galore PCs disposable with Thunderbolt 5, and each of them are backwards-compatible with less-expensive Thunderbolt 4 and USB4 devices, truthful the marketplace for TB5 accessories is inactive limited. Anker’s caller Prime TB5 Docking Station looks similar a large option, though.

The Anker Prime TB5

Like astir different Thunderbolt and USB docking stations, this dock is intended to crook a laptop into a afloat table PC setup done 1 cable. It has 2 downstream Thunderbolt 5 ports, 2 10Gbps USB Type-C connections, 3 10Gbps USB Type-A ports, SD and TF paper readers, 2.5Gbps Ethernet, an audio jack, HDMI 2.1, and DisplayPort 2.1. You could link much Thunderbolt devices connected those downstream ports, oregon you conscionable usage them arsenic regular USB Type-C ports.

Anker says the dock tin grip “one HDMI oregon DisplayPort and 2 Thunderbolt 5 downstream video outputs,” maxing retired astatine 8K 60Hz for 1 display, oregon dual 8K 60Hz screens with Windows laptops. The nonstop operation of displays and resolutions depends connected the computer’s bundle and hardware support—for example, Mac computers with basal M1, M2, and M3 chips are constricted to 1 outer screen.

Anker is possibly champion known for its partition chargers and portable batteries, truthful it’s nary astonishment that charging is simply a precedence for the Prime dock. The 2 front-facing USB Type-C ports person a full output of 45W, portion the upstream larboard tin complaint the connected machine astatine up to 140W. Anker says that’s accelerated capable to complaint a 16-inch MacBook Pro to 50% successful 26 minutes and afloat complaint the machine successful astir an hr and a half. Some high-end laptops necessitate much than 140W of power, particularly gaming laptops, but you tin conscionable plug successful a abstracted powerfulness transportation successful those cases.

The Anker Prime TB5 is simply a spot bulkier than immoderate of the different Thunderbolt 5 docks we’ve seen, similar the CalDigit Element 5 Hub and UGREEN Revodok Max 2131. It does person the vantage of a built-in powerfulness supply, though, truthful you won’t person an further powerfulness ceramic hanging determination down your desk.

Pricing & Availability

You tin buy the docking presumption connected Amazon for $399.99, oregon you tin get it from Anker’s online store for the aforesaid price. There’s 1 3.3 ft Thunderbolt 5 cablegram included successful the container for the upstream transportation to the computer.

Via: The Verge