CalDigit TS5 - Thunderbolt 5 Dock - 15 Port, 140W Dedicated Host Charging, 80Gb/s Thunderbolt 5 x4, USB-C 10Gb/s x3, USB-A x2, 2.5GbE, Dual 8K@60Hz, SD & microSD UHS-II, 1m Braided Cable, 240W PSU

Works with M4 Max as expected. the packedge does not give you premium feeling, however when you unpack the device has solid alu casing and all ports works as expected. i love that on front panel there is only usb-c, without usb-a.

Good Product

Excelente producto

Great looking and high performance device!!

I have had this dock for about three weeks, and it does everything it promises to do. The Thunderbolt 5 ports work exceptionally well. All of the charging ports provide their specified charging power. The audio port is exceptional. It's the first dock audio port that transmits high-quality sound. The 10 GbE Thunderbolt 5 Ethernet port is an exceptional value. The USB ports all perform as expected. The DP 2.1 DisplayPort will support nearly any level of monitor. This dock will easily support three 4k displays via the two downstream Thunderbolt 5 ports, which are DisplayPort 2.1 compatible. The downstream Thunderbolt 5 port will charge a laptop with 140W of power. Unlike any other dock, this one will charge everything you can connect to it at full power. It has two 36W USB-C charging ports. They charge my Samsung S24 Ultra very quickly. This dock has enough power to provide full charging capacity out of every single port even IF you have you are charging an accessory on every single port. There is NO other Thunderbolt dock on the market that will do that. ALL of the Thunderbolt 5 docks I have researched will not charge your computer at 140W if you're charging other accessories (like a phone, an iPad, a portable charging power bank, etc. This is the only dock on the market that doesn't have "dynamic charging." In other words, the more you plug into other docks, the slower everything charges, including your laptop. This dock charges EVERYTHING at full speed, no matter how many items you have plugged into it. The two card readers are super fast. They are so fast that you could use a 1 TB CF card as storage. I haven't had a single problem with this dock. Everything in this dock is state-of-the-art and cutting-edge, and ALL of its features work flawlessly. It's hands down the best dock on the market right now. This actually stunned me when I got the dock and was testing every function. Because it is so expensive, if any major feature had been buggy or failed to perform as advertised I would have returned it. But everything worked amazingly well on the dock. When you consider it includes a 10GbE Thunderbolt 5 ethernet port, which will provide LAN internet speeds of nearly 10 Gbps, it is an exceptional value. A separate Thunderbolt 5 10 GbE adapter would cost $200-$1000. This is the best dock you can buy right now, bar none.

Firstly: I got this from Amazon because it's where stock was available, but it doesn't seem like price is actually different from other vendors at the moment. Amazon just front-loads the import fees and duties so you're not caught off-guard when the package arrives at your door. That said, this unit will eventually be natively available in Canada, without these fees. So unless you're impatient like me, I'd recommend waiting for that to happen before buying (and any kinks with the firmware should be ironed out by then). PROS The high price, in my opinion, is very justified. I've used the CalDigit TS3+ before this, but had to abandon it after upgrading to a 4k monitor. The TS5+ is now my favourite piece of tech on my desk, if just because it simplifies so much of my setup and workflow. I have my Macbook Pro M4, my work PC, and my Windows Desktop PC all plugged into my dock via thunderbolt cables, along with common accessories like my keyboard, mouse, mic, and audio. My Macbook and work PC (a Lenovo P14S Gen 2) work basically out of the box, as expected. My PC took some fiddling, and I was worried it would be incompatible; it urns out the motherboard uses USB-C Gen3.2 40gbps, not Thunderbolt 5, which was my mistake. But thankfully the PC does still connect, after I established a connection directly to the monitor, and then swapped that connection to the dock using a TB4 cable. The dock is super high-quality as well. It uses a pair of USB controllers instead of just one, so it doubles the bandwidth between devices if you know which ports to use. It means I can keep my devices charged very efficiently, I have absurd read/write speeds to and form hard drives, and I face virtually no lag or artifacts on my display. I can have all of my devices connected to my PC via a single cable (not so much my desktop, but that's more by virtue of wanting a consistent ethernet connection), and swap between them just by swapping cables. I did encounter a bug where my display would disconnect occasionally, at first, but a firmware update fixed this. CONS In my week of practical use, I haven't personally encountered any issues that really stuck. I did have issues connecting my Windows Desktop PC at first, but I think that was just because I needed to connect it straight to my monitor first, establish the connection path, and then connect it back to the CalDigit dock. I also had issues with connecting it again after I swapped to a TB4 wire instead of a USB-C 3.2 wire, so I think the specific wire you use is also important to the data flow. I also had a brief issue where the dock would just... reset the connection between itself and the Windows Desktop. So I'd see a black screen and 'no signal on displayport' for upwards of 10 seconds before the screen would go black again and I'd have my video back. Turns out that the Windows Desktop doesn't automatically update the firmware, so I needed to do that really quickly first. After that, I've had no connection issues whatsoever, but I do wish that process had been smoother. I've seen quite a few people on Reddit having issues, but I feel like many of those come down to being more niche use-cases, or people who just didn't understand the hardware properly. Some of them are genuine, and CalDigit has generally been great with their support. I had no doubt that they would be willing to help me if I asked them, but you need to be willing/knowledgeable enough to troubleshoot in very logical depth. There's a lot that can cause issues in a high-bandwidth device like this, from firmware on the dock, to some software configuration on the computer itself, to just using the wrong wire despite thinking you had the right one (like I did). But again: CalDigit has their customer support for a reason. Be willing to use it, don't expect everything to magically work. This is a power-user's dream and a casual user's nightmare. But I guess the biggest con is whether or not you need it. The TB4 still exists, and is still excellent. Even if you're trying to future proof your dock, you need to ask yourself if the price increase is worth it. If you plan to drive multiple laptops or compatible desktops to use multiple 4k monitors (or even a single high-refresh-rate 4k monitor, potentially using HDR if you want) then I think this is about the best there is, and it will remain that way for quite a while. But if you don't have 4k monitors, and need something faster and with more mature firmware, get the TB4. You'll save some money.

Excellent product—worked perfectly on the first try. While I understand most users of this docking station are on macOS, I'm using it with a Windows laptop featuring Thunderbolt 4, and it's been flawless. It may have some compatibility quirks with older Thunderbolt 3 systems, but for Thunderbolt 4 and 5, it works seamlessly. One of the best features: no drivers required on Windows—just true plug and play.