At one point I went nuts and daisy-chained three Thunderbolt docks together. Thunderbolt is designed for daisy-chaining up to six devices per port, making it possible to string together multiple Thunderbolt devices (assuming all but the last in the chain also have dual Thunderbolt ports). This greatly increases your expansion capability, with the option to charge and sync iOS devices via the USB ports, hook up speakers and microphones, make networking fast and reliable via a physical connection, add storage and external displays, and so on.Įxpansion options do not end there.
They turn one Thunderbolt port into two, and add a variety of other ports such as USB, Ethernet, and audio. Thunderbolt docks are a solution to this problem. No Macintosh laptop has more than two USB ports.
MacBook Air users have it particularly bad with just one Thunderbolt port (compared to two on MacBook Pro models) and no HDMI port (there’s one on the MacBook Pro with Retina Display). Mac Thunderbolt Docks: Belkin Versus the Clonesįor many of us, I might paraphrase Wallis Simpson’s saying as “You can never be too rich, too thin, or have too many ports.” As such, using a port-poor Apple portable can be a pain in the posterior.
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