Hi, I'm Bernie Thompson. I'm the founder of Plugable
Technologies. So Thunderbolt 3 has continued to become more and
more important. Why is that? Because it's not a technology
that actually everybody is familiar with? Well, the coming
USB 4 standard and Thunderbolt 4 are really based on Thunderbolt
3 technology. So, uh, those new technologies do a few new
things, but largely the feature set is the same as the
Thunderbolt 3 feature set. And both of those technologies are
backward compatible with Thunderbolt 3. So Plugable, we
have a whole line of docks that come covers the range from USBA
to USBC, to Thunderbolt 3 and coming Thunderbolt 4. And we
have a new doc today that is targeted at those performance
users. You can actually find hubs out there and docks that
have 13, 15 ports. They're all making compromises though, that
this doc does not make every one of these ports is the highest
performance you can have. Both of the Thunderbolt, 3 ports are
40 gigabit per second. The USBC port on the front is five
gigabit per second. The two USB ports are both five gigabit per
second. Everyone is going straight to 40 gigabit per
second, back to your host laptop. And that's the, the, the
trade off and the advantage of this dock. You don't have any
backward compatibility with older USBC laptops that don't
have Thunderbolt 3. You've got to have Thunderbolt 3 in your
laptop, but then there's no
compromises on performance. It's a full 40 gigabit per second
performance back to the laptop and all your different devices
can make full use of that. So this is also a document charges,
your laptop, as you could tell from the name of the product,
the Plugable TBT, 85, w it charges the laptop at up to an
85 watt rate. And the thing is, is USBC and Thunderbolt. 3
charging are intelligent. There's a negotiation that goes
on on both sides. Each side says their capabilities, and then
they kind of choose the best common level. If you've got a
laptop that is a 60 watt laptop, and you plug in an 85 watt dock,
that's USBC, they'll just go talk to each other and go, okay.
60 watts is what you want. You got it. Cause this is anything
up to 85 watts. And then similarly, in the other case
where you have a laptop that would like to have more
potentially like a, the very latest high end Mac book, uh, is
a 96 watt. This will still charge that laptop. They will,
uh, talk, they'll go, okay. 85 watts is the best, and it'll
charge at that 85 watt rate. And it's, it's not going to be that
much difference in terms of charging time between the 85
Watts and the 96 Watts. And, you know, the dock will work for
that scenario. So kind of the wonders of USBC and Thunderbolt
3 charging
is that it is so smart and flexible. And at 85 watts, this
is more than most other Thunderbolt 3 docks that are on
the market. Natively Thunderbolt is actually DisplayPort over the
Thunderbolt connection, but a lot of monitors including this
one here they're HDMI. So we include a display port to HDMI
adapter, right in the box. Also in the box, we include a, of
course, a Thunderbolt cable. A lot of the docks that you buy
today will actually have a half meter cable. So about 1.5 feet,
that 1.5 feet, you know, a half a meter, it's kind of short for
that. Um, so we include a 0.8 meters. So just under a meter.
So you get that extra distance to go back to your laptop, and
it's not as frustrating to have a really nice, uh, desk setup
and so better doc for that purpose, if you're kind of
looking for being able to plug in the most set of things, this
might not be the dock for you, but want to make sure that all
of the devices that you have will work at the maximum
possible performance. This is the dock for you.