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Elgato Thunderbolt Dock for Apple iMac, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air

Elgato Thunderbolt Dock for Apple iMac, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air

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graeme p wetenhall
5.0 out of 5 starsThis product looks great and functions even better
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 23 December 2015
My Macbook only has USB 2.0 so i bought this to provide my desk with some fast USB 3.0 ports. This product looks great and functions even better. All the inputs and outputs on this product are firm and strong meaning wear and tear on removing and adding usb peripherals to the device wont have any effect. A must have for any mac user needing USB 3.0 ports.
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Chris belcher
1.0 out of 5 starsuseless app utility
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 2 April 2015
JUST DON'T DO IT!!!!

Go Belkin, caldigit, akitio, startech instead. Intermittent performance. useless app utility, support non-existent.
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graeme p wetenhall
5.0 out of 5 stars This product looks great and functions even better
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 23 December 2015
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My Macbook only has USB 2.0 so i bought this to provide my desk with some fast USB 3.0 ports. This product looks great and functions even better. All the inputs and outputs on this product are firm and strong meaning wear and tear on removing and adding usb peripherals to the device wont have any effect. A must have for any mac user needing USB 3.0 ports.
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Amy-Cara
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 12 October 2014
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Saves a lot of room on desk and makes MacAir more adaptable.
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Candy Barr
5.0 out of 5 stars Great purchase, very happy
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 16 August 2014
I use this with my Mac Book Air and it rocks! Great purchase, very happy.
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Chris belcher
1.0 out of 5 stars useless app utility
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 2 April 2015
JUST DON'T DO IT!!!!

Go Belkin, caldigit, akitio, startech instead. Intermittent performance. useless app utility, support non-existent.
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Obankster
1.0 out of 5 stars HDMI not working
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 15 August 2014
The HDMI port does not work. So my external monitor will not turn on. I can get it to work perfect with a display port to mini display port cable plugged from monitor to dock, dock plugged to laptop. Even outputs at 2560x1440 but then I lose the spare thunderbolt port. Reason I bought this device over other company's was the HDMI 1.4 port. I would say if your buying for HDMI please try in the store before you buy. I might be unlucky and have a broken port but I have been in contact with elgato customer services for over 2 weeks now and they can't help...
Very disappointed in this product. save your money......
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Josh Chande
1.0 out of 5 stars Dont get if you use bootcamp
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 4 June 2014
50% of the time it refuses to work with bootcamp and constant restarts are required to fix this. Works fine in osx so fine for majority of consumers.
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J. Cheng
5.0 out of 5 stars Superb Thunderbolt dock and makes my professional life much easier!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 6 June 2014
It's been a pleasure to use this dock since I received it from Elgato last month. I didn't order through Amazon because they didn't have it in stock. Back to the topic, I am a professional photographer who is always on the move. It means that I use a laptop and multiple mobile devices while I am away from my studio (A late 2011 Macbook Pro 17inch, iPhone 5, iPad Air to be precise). Back in the studio, I have lots of external hard drives (still not enough!) with various connection standards, Firewire 400, 800, USB 2.0 and USB 3.0. Since my MacBook Pro was the late 2011 model and it never got the USB 3 upgrade so I have never benefited from the potential speed increase.

Despite the power of my MacBook Pro, which was a top spec model which could easily equal to many desktop computers, lacks connections. I only had 3 x USB 2 ports, 1 x Firewire 800, 1 x Lightning Port/Video port, 1 x Gigabit Ethernet and 1 x ExpressCard port. With multiple hard drives, I always run out of ports especially now I need USB for just about everything (like iPhone and iPad... even my remote control helicopter!). So you can image just how messy this is when I got back to the studio when I need to connect all these stuff to my laptop.

Elgato Thunderbolt dock is a very tidy and neat solution. It uses only the Thunderbolt port and instantly my computer is transformed! I only have to plug it in once, apart from my Firewire hard drives which is still daisy-chained and connected to my computer's Firewire port. But the best part is that now I have 3 x USB 3 which works! With just one connection and now I have doubled my ports and now for most part of my work when I am back in the office, I only need to connect once instead of multiple times (and the opposite when I leave the office!).

I did look into Belkin but it's bigger, the adaptor was much larger, despite it has a Firewire 800 port, some reports say that its USB ports doesn't provide enough power for some portable drives, even when Belkin says it's ok. I don't have a problem with Elgato with this respect!

Anyway, it looks like, very tiny and a very tidy solution for me at least. If you are someone like me with lots to connect, this is a life-changing gadget for sure and if you are a MacBook Pro user before the USB 3 upgrade in 2012, then you will have 3 more working USB 3 ports!
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Mims sa
3.0 out of 5 stars Bon matériel mais...
Reviewed in France 🇫🇷 on 3 June 2014
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Le matériel correspond tout à fait à notre attente mais il manque le Elgato Thunderbolt Cable dans le contenu de la boite.
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