Enlarge / The brand new Thunderbolt Four model of Microsoft’s Floor Dock. (credit score: Andrew Cunningham)
Microsoft is introducing a brand new model of its Floor Dock, the primary to depend on Thunderbolt Four as an alternative of Microsoft’s proprietary Floor Join port. The Microsoft Floor Thunderbolt Four Dock prices $300 ($40 greater than the common value of the previous-generation Floor Dock 2) and is obtainable beginning right now.
The brand new dock measures 5.91×2.95×0.84 inches—a bit flatter, wider, and deeper than the Dock 2—and features a whole of three USB-C/Thunderbolt Four ports, three 5Gbps USB-A ports, a 2.5Gbps Ethernet port, and a headphone jack. The dock can present as much as 96 W of energy to a related laptop computer, which ought to be adequate to energy most laptops that cost over USB-C.
Microsoft solely advertises compatibility with its personal merchandise, however as a result of it makes use of Thunderbolt 4, the dock ought to work with most units that embody USB-C or Thunderbolt ports, together with most PC laptops and MacBooks (although we do not know whether or not macOS consists of drivers for its built-in Ethernet port, and the variety of exterior shows supported might depend upon what number of your MacBook natively helps). Microsoft says laptops with plain USB-C ports can drive a single 4K show at 60 Hz, whereas driving two 4K shows at 60 Hz requires Thunderbolt.
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