

You’ll need to plug the boot drive directly into a port on your Mac laptop. iVANKY Docking Station Pro, 12-in-2 MacBook Pro Docking Station Dual Monitor 180W Power Adapter, 4K60Hz Triple Display Powered Dock 18W PD 2 HDMI 2.0, Ethernet USB C 3.0, 4 USB 3.0, SD/TF 3.5mm Audio.
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I wasn’t able to boot from a Yosemite install USB flash drive plugged into the USB port of any of these docks, even though the drive appeared as a bootable drive in System Preferences. MacBook Air 2020/2019/2018, MacBook Pro 2020/2019/2018/2017/2016 XPS, Inspiron 7000, Latitude 7000/5000 EliteBook Yoga X1/C900/C700, ThinkPad X390/T490/T590. All of the manufacturers tout their dock’s ability to support 4K monitors though this is a function of Thunderbolt 2 and not necessarily a dock-specific feature. Belkin Thunderbolt 3 Thunderbolt Dock for MacBook Pro Models 2016 or Later, Dual 4K 60Hz, 40Gbps Data Transfer Speeds, Comes with 0.5m / 1. All of the docks require a power adapter. Some of the docks are quite similar in design while others are vastly different. I also understand there is a 'hack' floating around to bypass this apparent software/driver mismatch. If I understand correctly there is a mismatch between what Apple has approved of hardware/thunderbolt peripherals and this certain hardware device. In this roundup, I tested eight docks that all use Thunderbolt 2. MacBook Pro with Dell TB16 Thunderbolt dock. For other MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models, the first 4k monitor have a refresh rate of 60Hz, while the second will refresh at 30Hz. When you return to your desk, all you have to do is connect one cable. This dock supports two 4K extended displays with up to 3840x2160 resolution at 60Hz for your 15'' MacBook Pro (2017 and later) or 16'' MacBook Pro. When you want to take your laptop, you only need to unplug a single cable. But essentially, the basic functionality of the docks is the same as before: You plug in your display, hard drives, printer, ethernet, headphones, USB devices, and whatever else into the dock, then you connect the dock to your laptop via a single Thunderbolt 2 connection. The market has also grown a little, with a few more offerings to consider.

The major change since I last did a roundup of Thunderbolt docks is that the latest docks use Thunderbolt 2, which makes them aligned with Apple’s Thunderbolt 2 implementation in its MacBook Pro and MacBook Air.
