Hi, I'm Gary Zeller and I am the
Product Director at Plugable,
coming to you today from our
studio in Redmond, Washington,
to talk about the new 2021, Pro
MacBook Pro, really powerful
platform, excited to talk about
some of the new capabilities, as
well as some of the Plugable
products that you can use to
help get the most out of it.
So as most of you are watching
this video are aware last year,
Apple, introduced to the
original M1 CPU, an incredibly
well-designed chip. That's been
lauded with almost universal
praise for its mix of
performance and power
efficiency. One of the bits of
customer feedback that we did
receive was a desire to enable
more than a single external
display on the M1 platform. And
as such our DisplayLink based
products like our DisplayLink
docking stations and USB
graphics, adapters were a great
solution, to that to
configuration request. If you
haven't already, please do check
out our triple monitor on the M1
Mac video in the link below.
This past October Apple held
their unleashed event to where
they unveiled the newest
additions to the M1 lineup the
M1 Pro and M1 Max CPUs.
So we've got the return of the
SD card slot, a very sought
after feature from, creative
professionals, as well as the
addition of an HDMI port. one of
my personal favorites, the
return of MagSafe connector.
Excitingly for the first time on
Apple systems, we've got the
appearance of three
thunderbolts, four ports.
Each of the USB-C ports on the
MacBook pro is capable of
providing that full Thunderbolt
4 feature set, which means, the
ability to connect dual
monitors, up to 96 Watts of
charging power and gobs
bandwidth for your
high-performance USB peripherals
all through a single cable.
So in our setup here, I have got
the M1 Pro system connected to
our flagship TBT3-UDZ Docking
Station, which connects to
Thunderbolt 4 systems
Thunderbolt 3 systems and even
USB-C systems that don't have
Thunderbolt, to offer a wide
array of additional connectivity
and features. It is, one of our
most popular docking stations.
And certainly, one of the most
popular pairings with the new M1
Pro M1 Max Systems. When
connected you have the ability
to attach two additional
monitors. HDMI or DisplayPort or
a mix of both got an additional
seven USB ports in the mix of
USB-A and USB-C as well as a
gigabit ethernet and a
Thunderbolt USB-C cable
connection back to the host
system. The TBT3-UDZ is a great
choice for creative
professionals and power users.
It is what we use internally
here on our creative team
creating lots of content for
YouTube, Amazon, our website,
and wherever else you see it.
We have been contending with IC
shortages for the past year. So
if you find that the TBT3-UDZ is
not in stock currently, please
do head over to our website to
sign up, to be notified once it
is available again.
So as you can see here, we've
got two monitors connected to
our TBT3-UDZ. And by extension
our M1 Pro MacBook Pro system.
Both monitors are operating at
full native resolution and
performance running at the full
native performance of the GPU in
the system capable of doing
anything from video rendering to
playing back protected content
on Netflix or Apple TV, or your
platform of choice. And once you
are done doing what you need to
do for the day, or want to move
locations, switch cubicles,
switch desks, move to another
room in your house. All you need
to do is unplug that single
cable and off you go,
So now that we've taken a look
at what's possible with a
Thunderbolt Docking Station
connected to the M1 Pro, I
thought it'd be cool to, take a
look at are Thunderbolt 4 hub,
the TBT4-HUB3C.
So what I'm going to do here is
disconnect the Docking Station,
single cable, and going to move
a monitor connection from this
dock to our Thunderbolt 4 hub
right here, the TBT4-HUB3C
connect, this HDMI monitor to
the included USB-C to HDMI
adapter, and then plug the
Thunderbolt hub into our
MacBook, where we will have that
display output as well as we
will begin charging the laptop
based on what this hub is
capable of. In this case, it's a
60 watt charging hub. Next I'm
going to connect a couple of our
popular, high performance
storage drives these are
Thunderbolt drives that have
NVME SSDs inside.
I am going to plug in these
Thunderbolt SSDs to make a
little mobile editing bay with
think cable conductivity to
super high bandwidth, high
performance, high performance
storage.
These two drives, connected, a
single display connected. We are
charging, everything.
Over Thunderbolt 4, 40 gigabit
per second high performance
connection between the hub and
the M1 MacBook Pro offering vast
flexibility and incredibly high
performance regardless of what
type of workload you throw at
it.
Please check out the description
for links to these products on
our website, as well as
additional details on our
website about the wide array of
products that we have been
testing on the new M1 Pro and M1
Max MacBooks. We have a USB-C
and Thunderbolt products that
will meet almost any
configuration need for these new
powerful systems. if you have
any questions, don't hesitate to
reach out to our US-based
support team at
support@Plugable.com. Or if you
have a question like to leave in
the comments below, please do
that and we'll be happy to help.