Hands-on: CalDigit TS3 Thunderbolt 3 Dock

32 Comments on Hands-on: CalDigit TS3 Thunderbolt 3 Dock

1. FIRST!!!

2. CAN I GET A SHOUTOUT? Notifsquad?

3. *I’ve got the same motherboard as you. How do you get sleep mode working on your skylake hackintosh?*

   • Bhavik Singh try opening clover configurator and changing darawake to 8.

4. A dock this big without a SD card slot.

   • I mean why would anyone possibly eeeever need one those… huh

   • anyone with a digital camera maybe?

5. Id rather buy an external GPU with should have most of the these feature plus external drive storage built in.

   • That’s a product I’d love to see. An external GPU with storage and spare ports. Pretty much a Tower PC, except smaller, and you take the take the CPU (aka Laptop/Tablet/Phone) with you on the go. I think that’s where we’ll be going on the portability side of things.

6. How do I downgrade with shsh blobs from iOS 11 beta 2 to 10.3.1 on iPhone 7 Plus windows ?

   • There is no tool for this yet

7. 3:02 seconds said what I was thinking the whole video no SD card reader? Huge miss

8. click and listen
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9. I have to say, I was quite surprised to see 2 eSATA ports. I thought people stopped using them back in 2009. I like them, just surprised to see them. I guess this dock is good if you have any old external drives that require esata.
   Quite surprised too that there isn’t a single SD card slot. I mean…why the hell not?

10. Is there a trade in option? LOL

11. $300? Pass. Much more versatile options available for a much lower price.

    • I don’t know many other 85W docks with network and 4K Displayport and the ones I know cost the same. With this, only 1 cable at all to a 2016 or 2017 MBP is necessary. So, a “true” docking station.

12. price???

13. Why don’t companies take a survey to see what ports consumers want?

    In my opinion I think a good dock should have:

    2 x thunderbolt 3 ports
    3 x USB 3.1 A
    1 x SD card slots
    1 x DisplayPort
    1 x HDMI
    1 x Ethernet
    Charging pass through

    Optional
    1 x 3.5 mm jack
    1 x Qi charging

14. Why did you trade the MacBook in? After all the MacBook is portable which is probably what you need when you travel to events

    • +Kevin Doorant iPad Pro

    • 9to5Mac Interesting setup.

    • iPad enough to do video editing on the move? Or is this something you’re not interested in doing?

    • That’s what I was thinking. If you own the new iPad Pro, you don’t really need a Macbook or a Macbook Pro. Everything you would need one for, like advanced video editing, you can get off the iMac and it’s 5K display. And when it comes to editing projects or gaming, you’re more likely editing in the office, where all your external monitors, external GPUs, and storage is, then out and about. And if there is any editing you need on the go, well, iPad Pro has Luma Fusion and a SD card adapter. Some budget productions can still benefit from a Macbook Pro over an iMac if they’re doing live editing on the go. And some people don’t care for touch, but want portability, and spend a lot of time typing. For them, a Macbook Pro and external monitor might be the best setup. But everyone’s different. It really depends on what you’re mostly using what with.

15. I could use this

16. On the consumer side, what uses eSata that could be more important then extra USBs?

    • quite a few raid enclosures rely on esata due to it’s slightly faster transfer speed vs USB 3.0.

17. what happens if i delete the ios beta software profile? (ios 11). does my iphone go in recovery mode?

    • Alexandru Trandafirescu No

    • You just won’t recieve new beta software

18. I can really recommend a Thunderbolt Dock to anyone, who´s hating cables. I´m using Caldigts Thunderbold Station 2 (identical I/O, except for HDMI instead of Display Port and Thunderbolt 2 instead of Thunderbolt 3) and I´m really happy with it! Finally only one single cable connecting my MacBook Pro to my external headphones & mic, iPhone Dock, two hard drives, monitor and internet (LAN). This effectively cleans up my desk!

19. If you connect headphones to the headphone jack on the dock, can you control the volume from your Mac normally? I’ve seen devices (monitors) that have a builtin headphone jack but the volume controls are grayed-out in macOS if I connect headphones to them (it is expected that the device is used for volume control since the audio output from the computer is digital)…