The dock will provide a second monitor using the HDMI port, but it won’t serve a Thunderbolt monitor on the USB-C pass-through.
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I did think there was a manufacturing anomaly in the top, but soon realised that this was actually a hole for a blue LED to shine through when the dock gets power! The unit can be bus powered from the host machine, or take power if you put it in-between your Mac charger and your Mac.
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The black and space grey finish match my MacBook Pro pretty closely. It’s a lot heavier too, but in a good, tough, built-to-last way. It is very solidly built and feels like a shrunken dock rather than the flimsy plastic nature of its predecessor. Not that they didn’t want to help, but as these were selling so well, they didn’t have any stock available for review! So with a quick bit of ‘Duck Duck Going’ (No more Google tracking) I managed to find one for sale in the UK for £59.99. So, when I saw that OWC had upgraded its USB-C Travel Dock to include an Ethernet port, I thought that was exactly the dock I needed to replace my old hub and adaptors.Īs OWC are a sponsor of the site, I reached out and asked if I could test one out. The old hub couldn’t pass through USB-C, so I ended up carrying a selection of Apple adaptors (Not dongles as I got corrected last time) around with me as well. I love the speed and the battery life of the M1, but sometimes you just need to connect more things. Now, down to two ports on the MacBook Pro and spending time away in hotel rooms, I needed more connectivity for the M1 machine. But being lazy, I continued to use it when needed. I never thought it worked properly though as I felt I never got a decent speed through the RJ45 socket. It cost £39 and to be honest, was just a way to get the Internet and a keyboard quickly connected to one of the first USB-C MacBook Airs that I tested out. That had two USB A ports and an RJ45 for an Ethernet connection.
Not a big problem as I had a hub that I bought from a large online store a few years back that so far had escaped mischievous work colleagues adding an extra letter with a Sharpie to the beginning of the brand name. So, in the upgrade, I had lost two ports. It’s actually hard to know what ports they really are as even the Apple website calls them different things depending on what page you are on! Adaptor, Hub, Dock - They all do the same, don’t they? I always get confused about USB-C and Thunderbolt 3/4. At the moment, all the M1 machines only sprout two Thunderbolt /USB4 (USB-C) ports.
Then, I decided to move ‘sideways’ from the Intel 13” to the new M1 powered 13” MacBook Pro. All went well, the new Intel machine had 4 Thunderbolt 3 ports for peripherals.įor the First Time in 20 Years, I've Downsized My Apple MacBook Pro We bought the OWC USB-C Travel Dock E and took it travelling!Īs you might have read, I made the decision to downsize from a 15” MacBook Pro to a new 13” Intel model last year.
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