OWC announces Thunderbolt 5 dock, adding 11 ports to your M4 MacBook Pro

OWC has just announced their new OWC Thunderbolt 5 Dock, adding up to 11 ports of I/O expansion for your M4 MacBook Pro with M4 Pro or M4 Max, which was the first Apple laptop to feature the latest generation of Thunderbolt port. It joins the likes of the Anker Prime Docking Station and the CalDigit E5 in the market. The OWC dock is set to start shipping in July. Thunderbolt 5 enables higher bandwidth, which allows the OWC dock to sport three daisy-chained Thunderbolt 5 ports, as well as power things like 2.5Gb/s Ethernet, and feed multiple high-res external displays. If you have a Thunderbolt dock already, you probably don’t need to rush to replace it with a Thunderbolt 5 one until you have more Thunderbolt 5 accessories to plug into it. A big draw of the newly announced OWC dock is the inclusion of three TB5 ports, so you could connect super-fast storage arrays, for instance. In theory, you can unlock maximum throughput of 80Gb/s data transfer speed and 120Gb/s for display bandwid ... Read full article.