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Christian White
Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2025
I've been using the Smartlinx Thunderbolt 4 docking station with my MacBook Pro for about three weeks now and it has been performing flawlessly. The monitor refresh is at 165 Hz through the docking station and the more robust 2.5 Gig ethernet port gives my Mac a very strong internet connection. The logitech transceiver is picked up instantly and even if I forget to turn the power on and let my Mac boot up I can still switch the power on and everything comes right online (just a side-note: you can leave the power on but I'm anal about shutting everything down). I didn't know what to expect but so far it's done everything very well. I've been pleasantly surprised! Time will tell... but at this point in time I am willing to give it a "recommended buy" status.
User12215
Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2025
I’ve had various USB hubs, dongles and adapters, and they always seem to eventually suffer from connectivity and reliability issues.Pleased to see, so far, that this dock is not only physically robust feeling, but has been super reliable for my three displays and drive enclosure.I’m using an m1 Mac mini and an OWC Thunderbay 8 enclosure.
Wyatt Szyjka
Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2025
I have many issues with this, 1 all of the usb worked without a problem, but none of the video inputs worked at all, and since theres no documentation of this product anywhere I have no idea if theres supposed to be anything that needs to be downloaded. Thats brings me to my 2nd point, I saw there was some app others downloaded to make it work, but that goes completely against the advertised plug and play. 3, since this product has virtually no online presence I have no clue at all if this is actually even thunderbolt in the first place. It says that its thunderbolt 3 on the box and then the cable to connect to your computer it says its thunderbolt 4, doesnt sound right to me. Lastly, after all these issues, I try to plug it into my newer laptop thinking that maybe the issue is the old computer that is running a custom windows 10 edition, and cant download the app that might fix the video not working, BUT IT JUST DOESNT WORK. How can anyone be sure that this dock even works on their computer if theres so many issues and no online presence???
Customer
Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2025
Finally!! This Dock works beautifully with MacBook Pro M3 Pro! 3 external displays plug the MacBook!!! Tried the iVANKY FusionDock Max 1 Dual Thunderbolt 4 Chips, 20-in-1 Quad 6K@60Hz Monitor. As well as the iVanky Fusion Dock. “Worked” with iVanky support to no avail.I had concerns about changing but setup was straight forward. Made sure that DisplayLink manger was set to run at startup (System Settings>General>Login Items) and it ran all monitors at startup. Super Easy!!!
John M
Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2025
What other users have said about the audio quality suffering is the truth. The dock itself is an absolute powerhouse, especially coming from a 90 watt dock that began to have a flickering issue with external monitors. I have all but a USB-C port occupied in this dock and it hasn't skipped a beat, is snappy and responsive. If you're an audiophile and need premium sound at all times, maybe look into cable shielding options since this dock seems to produce a constant background 'hiss' at all times. Its okay for online meetings and the like, but does get annoying enough that I keep the volume muted when not using it. ***UPDATE on the audio issue: I installed one of these onto the audio cable to my external speakers - the fix was immediate and the hiss is no longer there: https://a.co/d/0YKXben=============================================================================UPDATE: So exactly two months later - to the day - the dock died. It got power but wouldn't throughput to the laptop nor any connected device. I'd get the "blump-blump" notification on Windows that something was connected, then it would disconnect and just kept doing that over and over. Long story short, the return window had closed, but that's where Amazon customer service put me in touch with the manufacturer. They're based in Florida and agreed this sounded like a defective unit, so they *immediately* dispatched a replacement. Two days later I was up and running again with a free replacement and instructions to send the defective unit back. Its great when a company stans by their product and works to make sure you're getting everything you paid for. The photo is my WFH setup, and its running everything pictured with no issue. Highly recommend if you need something with more power, more ports, and the ability to build a "command center" at home with only one device.
Joe G.
Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2025
This SmartLink Thunderbolt "4" is good for if you have many Legacy USB 3.0 devices but may not so for Lighting devices. There are 6 USB 3.0 ports in the front and 3 Lighting ports, 1 used for the laptop uplink and 1 spare in the back and 1 in the front and 1 USB-C in the front.I reduced it by one "star" because of monitor support, you need to download "DisplayLink" drivers from the Manufacturer's site and enabled on your Mac. MacOS requires the user to permit "Screen Recording" in order for DisplayLink devices to work properly. The message is generated by the OS and the screen is not actually being recorded by DisplayLink. Approving it enables the DisplayLink driver to access the pixels it needs to render a mirrored or extended screens, and send the pixels over USB from your computer to the DisplayLink display. It does not send any data or pixels back to DisplayLink. (I hope). Other Thunderbolt 4 docks that I've used doesn't require this driver, it just works! Need further testing to see if this driver will conflict with my other docking station.If you have only one dock, this works well and is reasonably priced.
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