Elgato Thunderbolt 3 Dock - with 50 cm Thunderbolt Cable, 40Gb/s, Dual 4K Support, 2x Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C), 3x USB 3.0, Audio Input and Output, Gigabit Ethernet, Aluminum Chassis

Awesome! I have looked for a decent dock for ages. This one has just the right number of ports and seems to work flawlessly. I like the utility that allows a quick, safe disconnect. It's so easy to forget to unmount drives on a dock. It's powering my 15 TB perfectly, so it saves the need for one power brick.I am feeding my LG Thunderbolt 34" Ultrawide monitor at 3440x1440 from the displayport but I also tried it from the TB3 using the Apple TB3>2 dongle and it worked fine and enabled all the USB ports and dongled I had connected to the monitor previously.At some point I will add a little longer TB3 cable, but I know that .5M is the standard for full bandwidth so I will keep it if at all possible.Only knock would be that I tried it on my Dell XPS 9350 and the monitor worked but it would not charge the Dell. I will not ding the dock as they only show it working on Macs and frankly NOTHING works correctly on the TB3 port on the XPS.

I've detailed my setup here to clarify the coordination of these several components to myself as a unified system – to accomplish the many disparate tasks and workloads required – from 234 Chrome Browser Tabs in 5 layered windows; to word processing 3 full-size pages of legal documents at once; and then onto complex 3-D Solid Modeling.This workstation is, from left to right: Canon PIXMA MG8220 All-In-One Printer/Scanner; LG 34WK95U-W 34" UltraWide 5K2K Nano IPS LED Monitor with HDR; Creative GigaWorks T3 2.1 Multimedia Speaker System (with the 2 Satellite Speakers upside-down under both sides of the monitor); LG M-DISC BE16NU50 Blu-ray Disc Player/Recorder; Elgato Thunderbolt 3 Dock; Casio MS-80B Calculator; Apple M1 Max MacBook Pro mounted on a Twelve South BookArc for MacBook (on the right side of, and behind the monitor); Creative Labs GigaWorks T3 Volume Dial with Headphone Jack and Auxiliary Input; and a Samsung Galaxy S8+ Fast Charge Wireless Charger Stand (I used the phone to take this picture).As I'd just received the new 16" M1 Max MacBook Pro on December 18th, 2021, to replace the M1 Mac Mini that I'd bought a year ago, I found this great Elgato Thunderbolt 3 Dock to be the "perfect" companion for it!

Update: contacted Elgato and took a while but eventually got a replacement that works great. They agreed after a few questions via email that I got a dud. They were easy to deal with but just a bit slow but happy with the end result.If you're looking for a $300 power cord then this is will blow your socks off. If you want it to use it as a dock then you'll be very disappointed.It never really worked correctly and I've tried just about everything to get it going.Running on a 2018 MacBook Pro.1. Doesn't recognize USBs (it worked intermittently for a short period but now 3 months in it's completely dead)2. Display Port caused my screen to flicker every 5 seconds. I ended up directly connecting my monitor to Mac via DP to USB3 and it works fine.3. Doesn't recognize the Ethernet cable plugged into the port4. It does power the Mac so I guess that's the only thing that is working.Only buy this piece of junk if you're a glutton for pain and punching yourself in the face is not enough. It's an amazingly awful experience.

Same as other reviewers. it just didn't work 'right"IF you have a docking station, like a hengeDock, or something where you just drop your laptop into in, and have everything plugged in through it... this dock will NOT work if connected through such a station.The provided cable is too short for my needs. no other Thunderbolt 3 cable i tried seemed to work with this device, even quite expensive new ones with the highest standard. so plan to ever only use the provided short cable.- display port was very flaky. I would have to plug/unplug it a few times to get the my 4k monitor to eventually register. Even then it sometimes didn't ever connect. Eventually, i just had to give up on this dock and plug my monitor into the laptop directly via an adaptor. their advice? plug the monitor in through an adapter to one of the usbc ports. Um, thanks, so i have a completely unusable display port on this device, and they recommend I use up one of the only TWO usbc ports instead.- I have an external webcam. every. single. time. i would plug in my laptop, the webcam would get a new name, and everything that used it would need to be updated to point to it. I.E. google meet, i'd have to re-selected my webcam every time.- It did not charge my laptop. yes, I plugged it into the correct port (not the monitor one), used the provided cable, and it still failed to keep my laptop charged. I had to also plug in my regular charger or my laptop would die while using it.- ethernet plug seemed to vary. if you have all the ports occupied with devices, the ethernet would go out, as though there was no power left to support it. so I could only use wifi or not connect everything to it.overall, considering the price, i had to return it. I'm back to just using my older super cheap mini hub which has none of the above problems.

The good - This looks very elegant relative to other USB-C docks I've looked at and used. Also, the displayport output works very well. I have it attached to a 1440p ultrawide with 100hz and it outputs at the full resolution and refresh rate with no issue.The bad - The audio jack outputs a low hiss that makes it unusable to me -- at that point I'd rather just use the jack on the actual Macbook, which has no feedback. Also, the port selection on this is very poor. I ended up plugging a smaller / cheaper hub into the USB-C port on the back just to get more ports. The fact that there are no additional USB-C ports on the front of this unit is bizarre to me. The front is almost all blank save for one USB-A port, the hissing audio port and a mic jack.You can do better for the price. I only kept it because I already had another cheap USB-C hub to attach to it that alleviated the issues.