Plugable Thunderbolt 4 Hub | 60W Laptop Charging | 3X Thunderbolt 4 Ports | Dual 4K/Single 8K Displays | USB4 Compatibility - TBT4-HUB3C

I love my 2025 MacBook Air. It has just one problem. It only has two USB-C connections. So how do you support multiple monitors and still have the ability to plug in anything else? That’s where this comes in quite handy. It easily supports two thunderbolt displays using USB-C at reasonably high refresh rates. And it frees up your other USB-C port for a hub or any other peripheral you want to connect. This has been a really good solution to addressing the one failing of the MacBook Air. Nd the build quality is top rate!

This is a nifty little dock, but I'm probably using it a bit differently than intended. I achieved my goal of connecting my M1 Macbook Air to my older Apple Thunderbolt display using ONE CABLE that both charges my laptop and outputs to the external display. I love how clean the setup is.Basically its connected like this: M1 Macbook AIr --> Thunderbolt 4 cable --> Pluggable Thunderbolt Dock --> Apple Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) to Thunderbolt 2 Adapter --> Apple Thunderbolt Display.With some cable management and zip ties, the desk looks super clean, and now I have a single cable going to my laptop that activates the external display (and everything connected to it) and also charges the laptop. Great product and much more affordable than other options out there.

Using with a MacBook Pro. I was able to tether a single Thunderbolt cable from my laptop to the hub, and then connect an external monitor (using a Thunderbolt to DisplayPort cable) and an SSD.Be careful to follow the connection instructions. When I first unboxed the hub I connected the cables incorrectly, which allowed the SSD to be recognized but my external monitor didn't work. I was disappointed, thinking the hub didn't work as advertised, but after some troubleshooting I realized the problem was on my end, and once the cables were changed around everything worked great.

This upgrade hub gives my iPad Pro 11” gen 3 instant access to top performance from my peripherals.For the last 3 years I’ve been using an Anker hub with the short host cable built in. With this new hub the detachable high speed host cable gives me flexibility of where I can put things on my desk. The Anker, which has too short a cable to lay flat on the desk when my iPad is sitting upright, worried me that it was putting unnecessary weight stress on the USB input to my iPad. Not a problem now!The HDMI adapter is top quality and heavily built. I’m getting a better data stream out of the ipad now and the results were immediately obvious. The sharpness of picture is better defined, and the colors just better. I’m hearing an extra layer of audio resolution from my Schiit Multibit2 DAC.It runs a bit warm to the touch, but not hot. I’m also pleased I no longer need to worry about an external power source. One less headache.This small USB hub is dynamite! It does it’s job perfectly with all the speed and instant compatibility I was hoping for. .I was glad to find this usb hub here, it’s exactly the upgrade I wanted but couldn’t find before. I think Plugable is a top notch company and I will definitely buy their products again.

As far as function this works absolutely fine. What came with the bundle is basically useless. That's one reason for 1 star was removed. The reason for the second one being gone is the design. All access to the ports are on the front, but that is also where the power cable needs plugged into. The port that you connect the cable from your computer to the dock is in the back with nothing else there.I don't understand why and see no reason power input could not have also been placed on the back. There was a time in my life that I ran a printed circuit board shop, so I'm not really a lightweight when it comes to that type of design and I can see some hurdles that with more thought could have been easily overcome.I have a decent cable management system if that were so this could have been so much better that I could have easily overlooked the inefficiencies of what else is included in the bundle.The only reason I initially chose this over others was because I have other products made by this company that I have and consider very useful, well designed and built. I had a fairly rushed need for this and if I could have got something else at the time, this would have been returned. Like I said, it works absolutely fine, but is the only thing that is in my way of a having easy access and a much more neat desk.

First and foremost, the product functions as advertised, so there are no issues there. My biggest grip is design. Simply put, the power input should be on the opposite side of the device, rather than facing the three thunderbolt ports that operate to expand your PC's reach. It just makes no sense to me the way it is designed, because the power cord and plug, which are on the larger/bulkier side, pull at the hub. It would make PERFECT sense for the power cord to plug in on the other side of the hub, which connects to the PC to expand the ports. That said, this is the only device of its kind that I have been able to find, and Plugable generally makes very high-quality items. Yes, this was pricey, but it also works, and therefore, it's hard to complain. I just don't understand how, during the testing phase, Plugable did not realize that putting the power input on the other side would be more efficient.

Why did you pick this product vs others?:This works like a champ. I only use 2 of the outputs, but it just works always. One outlet goes to a 3-monitor dock and the other goes to a four-drive m.2 (4TB each drive) RAID box. Truly plug and play.

This works perfectly