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Customer Review
Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2022
-- Updated 2022-05-19---
Got fed up with the recurring monitor dropouts and started experimenting. Replacing the existing HDMI cable with a newer HDMI cable changed nothing. My monitor also has a DisplayPort input. Removing the HDMI cable, and connecting a USB-C to DisplayPort cable to one of the Thunderbolt 4 ports fixed the problem for my Lenovo T14. No dropouts all day. However, on my Lenovo L14 it made the dropouts more frequent, 3 to 4 in a row, several times an hour.
I've given up on this dock and will be purchasing a CalDigit TS4 once they're back in stock.
--Original review --------------
Went through two different no-name USB-C minidocks on my home office setup during the pandemic. When the latest one started glitching, decided to replace it with a Thunderport 4 dock to see if it would be more reliable and durable.
On the whole, I'm impressed with this dock. It has all the ports I need and lets me plug my keyboard, mouse, headset, monitor and DSLR webcam into it, so I only have to plug the dock into my laptop and power to the dock and I'm good to go. The fact that it works great for my Lenovo T14 and L14 laptops is even better.
The only drawback is the monitor blacks out for ~1 second 4-5 times per day. The dock is still working - everything I type when the screen is black still goes through - it's just the display is black. This is a Dell monitor doing 1920 at 60 Hz over HDMI so it's about as basic as you can get. It's annoying, and I expect better from a $350 peripheral, but none of the other available Thunderbolt docks have the ports I need.
Don't get this dock for HDMI use if you can't handle the screen dropping several times a day.
Once this breaks, I'll try a CalDigit.
Got fed up with the recurring monitor dropouts and started experimenting. Replacing the existing HDMI cable with a newer HDMI cable changed nothing. My monitor also has a DisplayPort input. Removing the HDMI cable, and connecting a USB-C to DisplayPort cable to one of the Thunderbolt 4 ports fixed the problem for my Lenovo T14. No dropouts all day. However, on my Lenovo L14 it made the dropouts more frequent, 3 to 4 in a row, several times an hour.
I've given up on this dock and will be purchasing a CalDigit TS4 once they're back in stock.
--Original review --------------
Went through two different no-name USB-C minidocks on my home office setup during the pandemic. When the latest one started glitching, decided to replace it with a Thunderport 4 dock to see if it would be more reliable and durable.
On the whole, I'm impressed with this dock. It has all the ports I need and lets me plug my keyboard, mouse, headset, monitor and DSLR webcam into it, so I only have to plug the dock into my laptop and power to the dock and I'm good to go. The fact that it works great for my Lenovo T14 and L14 laptops is even better.
The only drawback is the monitor blacks out for ~1 second 4-5 times per day. The dock is still working - everything I type when the screen is black still goes through - it's just the display is black. This is a Dell monitor doing 1920 at 60 Hz over HDMI so it's about as basic as you can get. It's annoying, and I expect better from a $350 peripheral, but none of the other available Thunderbolt docks have the ports I need.
Don't get this dock for HDMI use if you can't handle the screen dropping several times a day.
Once this breaks, I'll try a CalDigit.
