SonnetEcho 11 Thunderbolt 4 HDMI Dock

Thus far, I am very pleased with this dock. Using it with a 2024 Macbook Air M3 and a 32" curved Dell monitor. Setup is rather intuitive. Ports are clearly marked and well spaced, physical layout is clean. typically using 6-7 ports. Unit gets warm but not hot.Overall, very pleased with this purchase.

Sonnet makes great docks and this is no exception. I use mine for music/pro audio with an M3 Pro Mac laptop and overall it works very well, feeding Apogee audio hardware and two SSD drives as well as a standard USB "A" hub. However, there are minor compatibility issues with some outboard gear - a desktop display to the dock rather than the Mac itself is sometimes not recognized - and the unit runs a little warm.

I'm using it this dock to connect two DELL U2723QE 4K monitors to my M1 Pro MacBook. After trying several other options I'm finally in peace with this setup and I run both monitors at 2560x1440 HiDPI resolution . One advice: don't bother with Dell DDPM display manager (what a piece of crap!) and use BetterDisplay (free version works fine).

If you use all of the outlets (ports) available, it gets SUPER HOT. Like “burn your hand” hot. It still works, but it melted a cheap pen that was lying on top of it. Had to put it up on a heat-resistant rack (like you use to cool pies that come out of the oven) so it wouldn’t mar the surface of my desk.

This is one of the well constructed device. I wish it has more usb-c options.

feels solid, does what it says, and as a bonus it fixed standby power issues with my Dell U3818DW when connected to my M1 Pro Macbook Pro via USB-C.

I got this to replace an older TB3 dock, primarily because the older dock only had a 1Gb ethernet port. Unfortunately, while the dock reports a link speed of 2.5Gb, iperf tests reveal a real-world speed of only around 1.5Gb/sec (as compared to another M2 Mac Mini, with built-in 10GbE, on the same network and switch, which reports around 9.5Gb/sec). Disconnecting other devices from the dock (monitors, USB peripherals) makes no difference.Also, be aware that the ports at the back are on an internal hub, such that my keyboard (which also has an internal hub) would not function at all when connected through a USB switch. I had to connect my USB switch to the front port for the keyboard to function (presumably due to exceeding the limit on cascaded USB hubs).

Great little dock. Solved my flickering monitor issues. Ha. Needs more USB ports. But otherwise it's pretty on point for the price.