Here are the best Thunderbolt 2 dock options out there - and my suggestions as to which of them are best-suited to various usage scenarios…Īkitio’s Thunder2 Dock ( currently $209 via Amazon) is impressively thin, portable, and made completely from Mac-matching metal. This enables MacBook users to return home and make one connection to everything from an external monitor and speakers to external hard drives and card readers it can also allow iMac, Mac Pro, and Mac mini users to connect devices built with connectors not found on their machines. Long-time Mac accessory makers have come up with a few different riffs on the same basic idea, leveraging a single cable to connect a bunch of Thunderbolt, USB, and audio/video accessories all at once to a Mac.

This year, Thunderbolt 2 docks have really taken off. The latest iMacs, Mac Pros, MacBook Pros and MacBook Airs all feature at least one Thunderbolt 2 port, a boon for expandability. Apple and Intel’s Thunderbolt 2 standard has given Mac users - particularly professional Mac users - a premium, high-speed connector option for situations where bandwidth and speed are necessary: hooking up big, fast hard drives, high-resolution monitors, or even external graphics cards.

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