My OWC Thunderbolt Pro dock is still the most feature packed one with 10g and good heat dissipation
Mine is great for the most part but every so often the ethernet just stops working and only restarting the dock by unplugging it will fix it
A dock that wakes up reliably
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Re: A dock that wakes up reliably
#42I wish I could have submitted this entire thread as an exhibit to every commenter in the "Mac Pro Discontinued" thread from a few months ago telling me "jUsT uSe tHuNDeRbOLT!"
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#43Never thought it could be the monitor. I have an HP dock with an HP laptop for work and it's totally unreliable waking from sleep. My chances of getting new monitors are slim in this climate but it's a new avenue of investigation at least.
Yeah and the author linked a $1100 monitor lmao
It's apparently some kind of fluke, maybe the 27" model is out of production. The 32" model costs a little over 700, which is the current price range. I just paid 640€ for an LG 32" 4K OLED (+165 Hz FreeSync) monitor.
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#44My experience with non-Apple Thunderbolt products has been pretty dicey across the board. My ASUS motherboard has a port and theoretically works with it but across several firmware, BIOS, and driver upgrades, I’ve never actually got it to successfully recognize my TS4 as a Thunderbolt device, only USB.
Does the laptop have an AMD processor? This is expected behavior with them.
No, it’s a desktop with an Intel processor.
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#45I hate to say but this thread gives me comfort that: a) it’s not just me, b) it’s not my particularly unfortunate combination of hardware, and c) I made the right call to permanently retire my Caldigit TS4 and rely on my Lenovo ultra-wide monitor’s ports.
Learning this lesson (on the unreliability of systems using a very expensive docks) cost me over $1200 in chopping and changing hardware in the last few years.
Re: A dock that wakes up reliably
#46I wish I could have submitted this entire thread as an exhibit to every commenter in the "Mac Pro Discontinued" thread from a few months ago telling me "jUsT uSe tHuNDeRbOLT!"
Was the alternative immune to misbehaving devices?
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#47On a similar note, I still do not understand why I have to plug a USB Flash Drive into my Mac twice for it to mount.
I take modern USB-C Flash Drive, plug it into my Mac. Nothing. Take it out, plug it in again, and it mounts just fine.
Same with SD Cards.
I have no idea why this is, and I'm not sure if it's always been this way, but I can't remember a time when I didn't have to do this.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Us old people have the idea of peripherals as input (keyboard, mouse) or output (monitor, printer) - but they've all been input/output for two decades or more; and Thunderbolt and friends are much more like an Ethernet network (reliability of Wake on LAN, anyone?) than they are simple point-to-point connections. Meaning - anything could be the device preventing what you expect to happen, even if it looks like it shou…
HDMI CEC is the bane of my (home theater) existence. Which device just woke every other device up at 4am? Which device just shut everything down while I was in the middle of a movie? And are they the same device?
CEC and eARC piss me off to no end - it was all working perfectly for over a year and now the receiver refuses to cooperate (or maybe it's the TV, who knows) and you have to cycle things by hand like a meanderthal.
Re: A dock that wakes up reliably
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Us old people have the idea of peripherals as input (keyboard, mouse) or output (monitor, printer) - but they've all been input/output for two decades or more; and Thunderbolt and friends are much more like an Ethernet network (reliability of Wake on LAN, anyone?) than they are simple point-to-point connections. Meaning - anything could be the device preventing what you expect to happen, even if it looks like it shou…
HDMI CEC is the bane of my (home theater) existence. Which device just woke every other device up at 4am? Which device just shut everything down while I was in the middle of a movie? And are they the same device?
A Raspberry Pi can help debug and fix HDMI CEC flakiness, with the right cable - https://johnlian.net/posts/hdmi-cec/
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#50It was nice to see one of Ronaldo Nazario's iconic moment on the wall.