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Me neither 。

Docks also keep your laptop permanently charging, which is not great for the battery life of a laptop. Hubs don't do that. Once in a while, it is a good idea to disconnect your battery from the power supply and let it discharge. It's good for the lifespan of the battery and to keep it from swelling and causing internal damage to your laptop. As they are now, docks tie your battery to being permanently charged if you need your devices, which isn't always a great idea to keep it permanently plugged in. I have a hub that I use and it's caused no issues to either my laptop or my devices, even when the ports are fully hooked in.

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great explanation. I have found that using J5craft unpowered docking station will tend to 1: overheat which causes screen a freeze 2 drain battery life 3, slow my computer. I def need a powered Docking station, but don't like the idea of constantly charging my laptop.

Usually there are some softwares that keep a battery in certain percentage

Not sure about Windows machines, but the Mac OS prohibits overcharging. My M1 Mac is always plugged in while being used as a desktop. That also lessens the Battery Cycle Count, which extends battery life. It's possible newer Windows laptops also has that function as they always in competition.

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Hi Chris! So glad you liked it. Yes, the TS3 was unavailable for a while but I believe they did that cause they were planning a new one. 🙌🏻 Here is the link for the TS4 in case you're interested. www.caldigit.com/thunderbolt-station-4/ ❤️

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Sorry im a newbie. Just got a one port usb-c port MacBook not tb. Will a usb-c hub be able to power an external 3.5 HDD and monitor if the MacBook has 30w battery?

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There are some devices unlike the older macbooks that actually make sense to only have 1 usb C port like a celphone or a tablet.

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It will not charge from both places at the same time, so there’s no need to use the MagSafe cable

No because the Caldigit TS3+ only works on Thunderbolt. The TS4 can be used on Thunderbolt 4/3 USB 4 and USB C ( with some limitations )

I got an alienware m15 r6 and a 32 inch dell monitor that has newer hook ups.I already had a veiw Sonic but it only has vga or dmi🤷‍♂️....I got a adapter for the older monitor to make it a hdmi...The video cable that came with my Dell is to big so I've just been using the hdmi to run it...can I run both without a dock?

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Have you tried Anker? I also just purchased a new Asus Vivo Book as well and purchased an Anker hub that works great but I haven't tried the HDMI port yet.

@@thomasfinnigan8340 No I gave up, so confusing to buy these hubs then they don't work. Think it's a usb c thing

I think that you need to check if your laptop supports HDMI video output via USB. Not all laptops do; my new HP 14 series doesn't. Many of the Amazon adverts for hubs/docking stations don't mention this so I may be wrong

really good question! i am also looking for an answer to this question

@@Xolerik707 Well in that case Anton, I hope someone is here to save us and help us find an answer! ☺

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Usb-c port, it is slightly smaller than a USB port, you can google what a usb c port looks like and make sure you computer has that port. But there are also docks with regular USB cables

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M1 Macs doesn't support 2 monitor except Mac mini. There's some docks that can do the trick to have a second monitor but it's meh. So even if you have a hub or a dock, you won't be able to use 2 monitors on M1 Macs

@@nicolastremblay1102 You seriously can't use two monitors on an M1 Mac? Damn, I can use 3-4 on my 9-year-old Windows laptop.

@@FlyboyHelosim I don't remember why there's a limitation on M1 but on M1 Pro/Max/Ultra you can have like 4 or 6 monitors if I'm not wrong

@@nicolastremblay1102 Oh right, I assumed you meant the entire range.

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will the usb c/a port (on the hub) be powerful enogh to charge a tablet?

Well, yeah. Otherwise what's the point?

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In fact, the Anker device she showed can be used as a dock The only reason why the Anker device does not allow two 4k displays to be attached are that one is USB-C and the other one is thunderbolt. In fact, let me rephrase everything she just described: - The cal digit one only works on m1 macs and Intel machines. (Or upcoming ryzen ones) and contains its own ac2dc power converter. And it can drive two monitors because thunderbolt just has plain more bandwidth. - The Anker portable dock has 1x USB 3 Type A, 2X USB 2 Type A, 1x USB-C, 1x USB-C PD, 1x HDMI, 1x Display Port, and SD card slots. It can and will charge your laptop just fine. Just buy a second power adapter for your usb-c laptop. It would have been built to drive two 4k60 monitors if USB3 had the bandwidth to drive them. File Transfer Speeds: USB 3 10Gbps bandwidth + dedicated display port bandwidth. Thunderbolt has enough bandwidth to transport PCIe 3 4x iirc. Of course the cal digit one is faster. It would be the same speed if you bought a thunderbolt device of the same size as Anker.

New laptop and chargers have overload protection and all that jazz

It will degrade your battery. My mom has killed 3 laptop batteries that way over the years. I consider a 15 minute battery life dead.

Yes keep lithium batteries between 20 - 85 percent charge to expand their lifetime.....

That is not an issue in macs, it will affect other types of batteries

@@no408mercyis that like when Apple said there wasn’t an issue with their phone batteries, but were then sued and forced to replace phone batteries for free?

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Don't look up "port replicator" or you will get more confused.

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