hi i'm mark hochman and i'm here to show you the most boring pc accessory
ever no no no no okay let's try this again
what's inside this box may seem simple and boring but it could actually change your life
so the main is going to tell you that what's inside this box is boring like a new mattress or
a microwave oven but in fact it's an investment in you one that you'll use every hour of your working
day but to understand it you need to understand a few trends first first the east coast tech media
the people that think that silicon valley is nothing more than apple's headquarters and a
couple of in-and-outs believe very strongly that simple is better and laptop makers have adopted
this trend too they've taken ports that were on the sides of laptops like usb and micro usb and
microsd and mini displayport and push them on to external devices now the other thing to consider
is that there are increasingly fewer work laptops and home laptops more and more there are home
setups and work setups and one laptop goes between the two so what i'm going to show
you is the device that facilitates that but first we got to get it out of the box
this is the plugable tvt3-udc3 a thunderbolt dock why would you want a thunderbolt dock
because it adds back those ports that the laptop manufacturers are pushing off the
laptops themselves now this is the tbt 3-udz the cadillac of thunderbolt docks as the meme goes you
can fit so many ports into this bad boy problem is though i love it everyone loves it it's sold
out this one however is cheaper smaller and more importantly available and that's going to matter
this holiday season so let's take a look at what makes this thunderbolt dock special what plugable
intrinsically understands about thunderbolt docks is that they're about displays at some point you
might be wondering why do i need that why can't i go ahead and use one of these instead this is a
usbc dongle it's about 40 bucks on amazon the problem is it doesn't only supports one monitor
and it only supports a 4k 30 monitor that don't buy a 4k 30 monitor it's hard in your eyes it
wears your soul at the end of the day it just makes you sad instead go with the thunderbolt dock
and the reason why is because it allows for two 4k 60 monitors 60 hertz that's the display right
you're used to that's what's gonna feel refreshing in your eyes end of the day we have two usb ports
here for mouse and keyboard on the back though one hdmi one display port you might be thinking
yourself well i don't have a second display port monitor i have hdmi pluggable's got you covered
in the box it ships with a dongle you simply go ahead and plug in the dongle into the display fort
voila you've got a thunderbolt dock that supports two hdmi ports instead most importantly though it
supplies power as well instead of you needing to bring your charger to work you don't need
to leave it at home and charge your laptop with thunderbolt instead remember when you're
researching these products that there's a lot of sad people a lot of negativity a lot of mac people
don't let that sway you they don't realize that thunderbolt docks don't work well with max but
you're you're windows people you're good you're loving put that love out into the world write a
positive review and tell people that a thunderbolt dock is in fact the best gift that you can buy
so the tbt3-u is priced at 169 that may sound like a lot of money but believe me it's not
it's something that you're gonna use every single day of your life and by the way it's not boring
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