Plugable 16-in-1 Thunderbolt 4 Dock – Dual 4K Monitors for M4 MacBook Air/Pro, 100W Charging, 2X HDMI, 2X DisplayPort, 2.5G Ethernet, 7X USB, MicroSD/SD Card Reader, Audio, Windows & USB4 Compatible

I bought this to dock a new gaming notebook to the two monitors, keyboard, mouse, speakers, mic, webcam, and other assorted odds and ends at my working desk. All of that is shared with a work notebook which has its own company-supplied "meh" quality off-brand Thunderbolt 3 dock, with both docks switching through a modern KVM so that I can jump back and forth as desired.As the new computer has a Thunderbolt 4 port, I wanted to go with a TB4 dock to allow for the possibility of higher resolution & higher refresh monitors and maybe even more of them at some point. This Plugable dock looked to be the best balance between price and features -- for the features, there just aren't that many docks at this price. A lot of the docks around this range don't even have DisplayPort, just capability for USB monitors. A lot of the ones at this price also tend to supply less power, which aren't enough for this computer. This one also seemed to make the top X on quite a few of the "best Thunderbolt 4 docks" lists.So nothing much to report in the functionality -- plug stuff in, stuff works. I had no issue with the computer locking onto the dock or the dock addressing any of the peripherals. Everything happens pretty much instantaneously. You get a nice green solid light to show successful TB connection with the computer, or white if no connection. The dock supplies 98W of power, which is enough to actively charge my power-hungry Lenovo Legion 5 Pro notebook which needs something close to that to charge while using. It's almost the 100W max for this computer for USB charging. Anyway, that certainly works.I had one hiccup -- toward the end of the first full day of use, it just stopped working at all, unable to ever establish a connection to any computer plugged into it. Swapped cable, same deal. I contacted tech support (after hours) via email and immediately got a human response acknowledging the problem, letting me know the real techs were going to be back in office first thing in the morning and would get with me, and as promised, they did, the very next day.Josh from Plugable, probably one of the most polite and pleasant people I've ever dealt with from a tech support team, was quick to ask for a bit more info, followed by acknowledgement that it appears that the dock is bad, and an offer to send out another immediately in exchange for promise of return from me using the shipping label that was to be included. Each interaction was very quick -- no long waits between emails. The package did arrive in just a couple of days and the replacement so far is working great. He mentioned really being eager to get that other one back with all of the original stuff (i.e., "please use only the new stuff [power supply, cable, etc] because we don't know which part of the old unit is the point of failure") so that they can diagnose the cause of the problem, presumably to know whether there are manufacturing or design issues to address. It's what I like to hear.Anyway, highly recommend this product. If you need it, the tech support is unbeatable. Hopefully you won't need it, and you'll have a really solid and frankly very attractive dock that looks good sitting on my desktop where my old mid-tower system used to be, along with easy access to USB ports and SD-card slots and a headphone jack.

I am using this docking station to swap between two laptops: an MSI GE66 Raider w/ Thunderbolt 4, and a Lenovo Thinkpad T14 w/ Thunderbolt 3. I am also swapping these laptops between my work office and home office, so I have 2 of these docks.The docks are providing connections to the following:- 38" LG Ultrawide 3840x1600 @ 144 Hz- 27" Acer 2560x1440 @ 144 Hz- Steelseries Nova Pro Wireless w/ USB DAC- Logitech MX Master 3S Mouse- Mechanical Keyboard- Yubikey- Logitech 1080p WebcamIt handles all devices smoothly including these monitors at high refresh rates, which even goes over their recommended spec. No mouse jitters nor keyboard quirkiness like I've seen in past docks.The only quirk I get is sometimes when I connect one of the laptops, the USB peripherals and/or one monitor won't be recognized. When that happens I simply power cycle the dock real quick (literally just press the power button twice) and it goes back to normal. It is for this reason that I realize having a dedicated power button on the dock is a must-have. I have experienced similar quirks like this with every USB-3/C/Thunderbolt dock I've used, and being able to quickly on/off the dock makes it much easier and quicker to deal with.Another important thing is that Plugable has excellent customer support. I've been using their docks for what feels like 10+ years and they've always been easy to get a hold of with any questions I had.Before buying this docking station, I had actually bought and tried the Dell WD22TB4 first. I chose the Dell simply because I could get it cheaper, but that ended up being because they were region-locked to China. I returned those and bought 2 of these Plugable docks. Turns out I am glad that happened, because I prefer the Plugable. The Dell took a lot of work to get it working right, but it did work fine in the end. The Plugable worked great right out of the box. Dell's dock had some TB USB-C ports, but I'm not sure I would have a need for those unless I was connecting portable monitors that could be powered that way. The Pluggable has more USB 3 ports as well as a dedicated power button, which is a must-have now that I know better.

Got this as a replacement for an HP thunderbolt 3 dock. It works wonderfully and is pretty sturdy with the included vertical base. It has two groups for displays, each with a DisplayPort and an HDMI connection. I ran into issues with running two monitors.My main monitor was using DisplayPort and was very stable, but my secondary monitor was running on HDMI and had loads of issues. Every time I would open a site like Crunchyroll or Spotify, the second monitor would go black and I'd have to reset my display settings in Windows to get it to work again. Also, running two monitors on Linux has been a tough time, but that might not be a dock issue.I've recently swapped to using a DisplayPort cable for my second monitor. Haven't tested with Linux, but on Windows all of my issues are fixed.TLDR: Excellent little dock with lots of features. Works great when using multiple monitors with the same type of connection, not so great with different connections. Great with Windows, YMMV when using Linux.