Comment on Intel makes Thunderbolt 5 official, promising speeds of up to 120Gbps
freeman@lemmy.pub 9 months agoAny random thinkpad dock is like 200. A dell d6000 is a displaylink dock (so needs a driver) but will work for 160 bucks.
You really only need TB to extend pcie speeds to a peripheral. For most wfh stuff like spreadsheets you can do it for a LOT cheaper.
xts@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Not in my setup. TB4 is necessary for me to be anvke to run my TV + other monitors. Also, I’ve used DisplayLink haha, never going back. It’s just a subpar experience.
freeman@lemmy.pub 9 months ago
Yeah displaylink depends on the use case. For my day to day work, scripting, spreadsheets etc. it’s fine.
At home I use an eGPU to drive 2 monitors and tv but that’s more to play games.
I THINK a thinkpad dock has 3 outputs. 2 DP and HDMI and is only limited by the horizontal resolution your laptop can output. A lot of intel onboard graphics are limited and if you are trying to output to a 4K+ 2x 1080p monitors you are gonna have trouble.