Plugable Thunderbolt 4 Dock with 100W Charging, Thunderbolt Certified, Laptop Docking Station Dual Monitor Single 8K or Dual 4K HDMI for Windows and Mac, 4X USB, Gigabit Ethernet (TBT4-UD5)

Plug and play, easy setup. Works with my M1 Max (Thunderbolt 4) and my Dell XXXXX (Thunderbolt 4?????). I have a 4k 60hz display, a 1080p 144hz display, a keyboard, and a mouse all plugged in with a single USB C cable from the dock. It's way more convenient than plugging in all of those peripherals every time. On top of that, the power delivery keeps my laptop charged at all times. Been using every day for a couple months now, and it is worth the price.

Executive summary: I am a happy customer and I think this is a good product.Update to review: After I left the below review, Plugable's support team reached out to me. We were in the process of doing some troubleshooting and my next task was to install and run a diagnostic tool. There is a sensitive data concern (work laptop) so I am hesitant to download the tool. The hub seemed to reset earlier this week (not sure if it was something the hub did or if Windows might have done an update that impacted it). Since then it has been working perfectly. Plugable's support team was good to work with. I have never been certain whether this was a problem with the hub or the laptop. But since it is working now and I am confident in their support team, I am changing this to five stars.Original review: I am using this hub to run two monitors (while also using laptop display, so total of three screens) and a USB camera. Initially I was impressed - setup was easy and it somehow guessed the position of my monitors (one portrait and one landscape) so well that the mouse moved flawlessly from screen to screen. Since then...not so much. Every day it's a gamble. It inconsistently assigns the ID, so most days I have to go into Display Settings, swap the positioning, redo the portrait/landscape settings, and adjust the layout. Today my USB camera won't work. I have downloaded current drivers for the monitors and removed all old monitor settings, but cannot get the hub to consistently assign the monitor IDs. Sometimes I can cycle the power on it a couple times until it guesses the monitor assignments correctly. Sometimes after a sleep/wake on the laptop, the hub will only recognize one monitor. Rebooting the laptop solves that one. While I realize this could be a problem on the laptop end, it is a brand new Lenovo ThinkPad and I've had no other trouble with it. Two stars, since once the daily irritation is passed, it does work well for the rest of the day.

I bought one of these and charged my m3 MacBook with it regularly. I think it died after 2 weeks. I reordered another one and I always make sure to plug my MacBook into its charger when connecting it to this dock. I now only use this as a simple dual monitor output and usb dock for my MacBook, which was the main reason why I bought it. This second unit is still working perfectly after a year and I’m happy with it even if I’m afraid to charge my laptop with it.

I drive my entire Home Theater system from my Samsung Win11 laptop. It provides the freedom to have multiple windows open at one time, with for example TV (youtube.tv) open to a Celts game but muted, Apple Music playing atmos-level music thru the AVR in another window, and email and other apps open as well. The key to the setup is the Plugable Thumderbolt 4 dock, which means only 1 item even needs to be plugged into the laptop (the thunderbolt connector, which charges as well as data-distributes). The dock connects in the ethernet, HDMI 2.1 in via thunderbolt, HDMI 2.1 out to the AVR, USB-C to a 4 TB SSD (for media library), USB-A out for bluetooth mouse/keyboard, a DVD drive, and a 4K google cast box to xmit directly from my smartphone or tablet. Works very well.

Update: the HDMI ports have both stopped working after less than three months. I have confirmed this with a second laptop. This is now an expensive USB hub.This works perfectly in my setup, although I discovered after I bought this that my laptop doesn't support Thunderbolt so I can't run both of my external monitors through this dock. Not the dock's fault of course.The dock doesn't seem to get notably hot in use though I'm not stressing it particularly with just one monitor that's not even 4K.My biggest gripe is that the uplink port - to connect the dock to the laptop - is on the *front*. This is stupid design. The front ports should only be for things that need to be plugged/unplugged frequently, so as to minimize cable clutter. In Plugable's defense this is very common among smaller, more portable docking stations, but there's enough room on the back for the uplink, so I'm taking away a star for this.Speaking of portability, the dock itself is reasonably compact but the power brick is bulky and heavy. I wouldn't really consider this a good option for a mobile setup.

This dock is performing wonderfully for me. When I connect my MSI GS75 laptop to the dock on my desk I have access to 1 or 2 large monitors with the desktop extended across all monitors including my laptop screen, and I can use my higher quality mouse and keyboard as well as a couple of high capacity external SSDs. When my laptop connects to the dock it also seamlessly switches to the dock's ethernet network interface - while connected, my laptop WIFI interface remains on but disconnected from the network until I disconnect from the dock. Great product. Highly recommend.