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Pros

This is a great reasonably compact dock if you are all in on thunderbolt. The build quality of this dock is sturdy and the color scheme looks great next to a space gray mac. Which makes it pretty flexible, but not as powerful for advanced use.

Two 4k monitors can be run at 60hz through the hub using either two displayport, two hdmi or one of each. Every display option works very well. It seems like similar models from belkin and a few others have similar results with this particular dell mo...  Read More

This dock is passthrough compatible. Lots of options for peripherals and charging device.



Cons

It only works for charging. This makes troubleshooting the unit even more difficult. A standard setup (keyboard, mouse, external drive, tablet) is unworkable with this unit without purchasing a second unit for usb peripherals. To call this device a fl...  Read More

The monitor issues are just too much and the swollen battery is just a bad icing on the cake for me. To get my two monitors to work with this pos device, after the monitors stop dancing and one still will still not come up, i have to plug and unplug c...  Read More

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Quality


The build quality is good and the device is simply plug and play.


The quality of their hardware is premium and up there with the best, even if they aren't one of the first names you think of wh...  Read More


After that reset it started working with the chromebox again.


It could have to do with the gpu switching with the laptop, so i'm not going to blame the dock without more info, but it's the ...  Read More

Price


For this price i would have liked to have more ports.

Packaging/appearance


I have not done exhaustive tests to understand why the power cable makes a difference other than the ethernet signal is also co...  Read More

Competitiveness


Over the past 3 years, i've tested over a dozen startech products.


Comes with all the cables: usbc to displayport, tb3 to tb3 with pd, a 220v power supply cable, so i can even bring it when i travel!


In reality if you are drawing more than 65w enough with this laptop for 65w to be an issue, the machine is going to die an earl...  Read More


I have had that problem with 2 startech docks in the past, but this one simply runs slightly warm under full use.

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  • How are reviewers describing this item?
    pro, port and two.
  • Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
  • Our engine has detected that Amazon has altered, modified or removed reviews from this listing. We approximate total reviews altered up to 320.
  • Our engine has discovered that over 80% high quality reviews are present.
  • This product had a total of 295 reviews as of our last analysis date on Nov 11 2022.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Star tech technical support assisted me with getting it working properly ended up being a bad displayport cable to one of my monitors on the kvm


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The thing is though because of the limited number of ports this might not be enough for people like me who need to have lots of ports to operatework at home


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    So i haven’t used this dock much over the last 34 months so i cannot really comment on its durability to be honest


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I only use this for dual monitors and usb ports for a 2018 macbook pro


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I haven’t tried the ethernet port


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I purchased the one with only two usb ports


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Wish the thunderbolt port was at the back with the rest of the ports but thats purely an aesthetic gripe


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Make sure if you do get a longer thunderbolt cable that it is rated for thunderbolt 3 or 4 as a regular usbc to c cord will not do

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