Recently also acquired the TS3 and I am a bit awed by the power of Thunderbolt 3. One cable carries 87W of power, 4K@60Hz, and a huge number of USB 3 at 10 and 5Gbps. My monitor also has a few USB-A ports which themselves get carried through its Thunderbolt 3 to the dock and then to the laptop. It’s clean as heck.
I love mine too — only problem is my 2020 MacBook Pro technically requires 96W of power, though I never drive it hard enough for long enough to have trouble. But I think Apple just solved that problem permanently with the M1…
It’s also been reported that the M1 has Thunderbolt 4 ports, which support hubs that can multiplex one Thunderbolt-4 port into three – handy for devices that only have one port on them and don’t support chaining.
This is a pretty ugly and expensive hack that I’d hesitate to recommend to anyone, but it works for me, in that it enables me to explicitly control which computer has access to the TS3 dock (with no cable juggling) at the cost of a 50% reduction in bandwidth.
Thank you for bringing this to my attention @raymii. I agree with you that given the proximity of submitting story d6cytn and story z7floj that they should be merged. Despite being different articles (published on March 6th and December 22nd of this year respectively) they both discuss the same build and are therefor the same topic.
h/t to @jmtd finding the original submission of the article for story d6cytn, story eflawq. That story is outside the merge window, having been posted 9 months ago.
Recently also acquired the TS3 and I am a bit awed by the power of Thunderbolt 3. One cable carries 87W of power, 4K@60Hz, and a huge number of USB 3 at 10 and 5Gbps. My monitor also has a few USB-A ports which themselves get carried through its Thunderbolt 3 to the dock and then to the laptop. It’s clean as heck.
I love mine too — only problem is my 2020 MacBook Pro technically requires 96W of power, though I never drive it hard enough for long enough to have trouble. But I think Apple just solved that problem permanently with the M1…
It’s also been reported that the M1 has Thunderbolt 4 ports, which support hubs that can multiplex one Thunderbolt-4 port into three – handy for devices that only have one port on them and don’t support chaining.
I’d bolt that bad boy under the desk, free up some room on top for important things like coffee.
This seems to imply that you can plug both in at the same time, but there is cable juggling to switch, right?
It looks like you can connect two computers to the TS3 at the same time, but only one of them can see the the connected dock peripherals at a time.
I have a Caldigit TS3 dock and two Thunderbolt 3 capable machines (a Z390 based Hackintosh and my work MBP) and the way I share the all my TS3 connected devices between the two machines is by using three Thunderbolt 3 -> Thunderbolt 2 adapters in conjunction with a Thunderbolt-2 KVM switch.
This is a pretty ugly and expensive hack that I’d hesitate to recommend to anyone, but it works for me, in that it enables me to explicitly control which computer has access to the TS3 dock (with no cable juggling) at the cost of a 50% reduction in bandwidth.
You also lose charging, right?
Yeah, no charging with Thunderbolt 2.
Kind of reminds me of the NeXTcube
This is the issue if you want a Linux/Windows build. There is no better silent chipset than Apple’s M1 today. Everything else is a huge step down.
Wow, that’s a beautiful PC and desk setup!
https://lobste.rs/s/z7floj/beautiful_silent_thunderbolt_3_pc
These aren’t exactly the same post. this one is though.
@alynpost could you please merge these two?
Thank you for bringing this to my attention @raymii. I agree with you that given the proximity of submitting story d6cytn and story z7floj that they should be merged. Despite being different articles (published on March 6th and December 22nd of this year respectively) they both discuss the same build and are therefor the same topic.
h/t to @jmtd finding the original submission of the article for story d6cytn, story eflawq. That story is outside the merge window, having been posted 9 months ago.