Dock Accessory Agency Ivanki recently launched its most powerful Thunderbolt Dock, Fusiondock Max 1, which I have seen in the Mc-Focused dock, takes advantage of dual Thunderbolt chips and connections to provide the maximum amount of versatility. I spent some time on the Fusiondock Max 1 exam in my daily workflow and I think I got my new daily driver.
Excluding other Thunderbolt docs in the market, setting Fusiondock Max 1 is the inclusion of dual Thunderbolt 4 chips, which basically doubles the dock’s capacity, allowing you to drive all kinds at the maximum speed and other peripheral. We will dig what it means to connect in just one minute, but let’s start with an overview of the design and setup. Note that Fusiondock Max 1 is simply compatible with Apple Silicon Mac, so it won’t work with the old Intel McS, Windows PC or Chromebook.
Fusiondock Max 1 provides an interesting design on some of a midnight color aluminum housing. Instead of simply featuring the shape of a simple brick, Fusiondock Max 1 has a unique “floating” design that developed a thin metallic frame and bottom of the dock and the main body of the dock developed the small leg. The design can help ensure some air flow around the dock, though I’m not sure how much it really helps in that case. The dock may be fairly warm when using it, but I didn’t get it so much to get it so hot that it was uncomfortable with the hand on it.
I recently reviewed that Satechi is similar to the USB-C Dual Dock Stand, Fusiondock Max 1 uses a dual-Sebil connection to your Mac, but it is thunderbolt instead of slow USB, so it exposes much more potential for greater bandwidth connection. The custom cable includes a deck and Apple’s laptop to match the port interval of the two thunderbolt connectors, including a certain arrangement, rather heavy accommodation. This makes it easy to plug in and unplug at a speed with very little feedling to properly lined the connectors.
The dock measures a slightly high at the height of about 6.7 inches (9.4 cm) deep, and some 2 inches (5 cm) high and a separate 180 watt power brick. The brick has a fairly bright green light that can be confused in dark rooms but most users should be able to throw it to the floor or elsewhere where it won’t be annoying.
The dock itself has smooth surfaces around and if it is under any kind of excitement or even below any kind of excitement, it can slide around the surfaces. Fortunately, Ivanki includes some sticky rubber pads that you can install for the horizontal or vertical orientation of your dock, and they turn a long way towards ensuring that the dock is there.
The 20 ports of the dock are definitely labeled, which is great because there are only many that are difficult to keep track of all of them. Excluding DC-in barrel plug connection for power, 40 Gbps Thunderbolt is powered by a pair of USB-C ports, which is vertically furnished on the back panel. Ivanki provides a custom cable with a horizontally arranged dual connector to one end to fit these ports to fit the Thunderbolt ports adjacent to your Mac.
Once you power the dock and get involved in your computer, your Mac dock will identify and give you a few permission of privacy and then you will be ready to go. The dock can provide 96 watts of power to the attached computer, so your Mac will not require a separate power connection.
In addition to the DC-in and Uzan Thunderbolt ports, there are two additional 40GBPS USB-C ports in the back of the dock that can display 60Hz at 60Hz and they can provide up to 15 watts of power. For other types of display, there are two HDMI ports support the display of up to 60Hz and the ports formally support HDMI 2.0, Ivanki is only advertising HDMI 2.0 due to the limitations of Apple at the USB-C/Thunderbolt’s docking stations. There are also three 10GBPS USB ports that provide 7.5 watts of power, a 2.5 GB ethernet port, a 3.5mm audio out port and a tolink optical audio out port. A Kensington Lock Slot is included to help the dock physically secured if desired.
At the front of the dock, you will find another pair of 40GBPS Thunderbolt USB-C ports capable of operating 60Hz A6K, a pair of 10GBPS USB-C ports (with a 20-wat power delivery capacity), a 7.5 watt offer), 10GBPS USB Ports, Plus, Plus and Plus TF/Plus. Slots support UHS -2 Standard. There is a white LED in the front to indicate whether the dock has the strength but it is quite faded that it is not annoying in a dark room.
With this array of ports, Fusiondock Max 1 can support four four external display, but it depends on that you have a Mac, since the graphics horse power is coming to an end. If you’ve got a MacBook Air, Mac Mini or Entry-Level MacBook Pro with Base M1, or M2 Chip, you can only run a single external display on 6K resolution. The latest of the M3-based machine, the latest MacBook Air and Entry-Level-McBook Pro models should be able to show a pair of pairs as long as your Mac is closed and in clampsel mode.
If you’ve got a MA M3 Pro, or M3 Pro chip such as a high-end MAC mini or a mid-level MACBOOK Pro you will be able to run up to 6K dock through any internal display for the MacBook Pro, and if you can show an interior for a Max, if you make an interior for a Max. Can get, but if you can do a maximum of a max, resolution.
It is important to remember that only USB-C ports support 6K resolution, but there are four down streams for display connection, two on the front and two on the back. HDMI ports on the back can only support the maximum 4K resolution.
I have no machine adorned with Max-level chips, so when I was not able to press the limit of Fusiondock Max 1, I didn’t have any problem with a pair of 5k display with an M1 Pro chip from my 16-inch EmacBook Pro. I tried a few more combinations of display through Thunderbolt/USB and HDMI with a 32 -inch 4K display with a touchscreen support and everything works without interruption.
Other peripherals also worked well with the dock, from Stream Deck to my USB to rapid external SSD, which was able to achieve the speed of writing 2,800 MB/S Reid and 1,950 MB/S while connected to one of 40 GBPS USB-C ports. This drive is directly attached to my MAC MacBook to read the speed of about 3,000 MB/second and yields the speed of about 3,100 MB/second, so there is only a small penalty to pass through the dock, when the writing speed takes a little big hit. Read and the speed of the writing is finally connected to the dock and thus depending on what its connection is shared with SSD.
The speed of the SD card came to about 90 MB/S Reid and 90-1160 MB/S Writing, which depends on the size of the file for the rational quick card for the exam, which is both below the theoretical glasses of the card and 200MB/S speed and it includes my opinion.
Up to wrap
I’ve been a loyal Caldigit TS3 Plus user for many years, but Ivanki Fusiondock Max 1 can take place on my permanent desk setup. With a single-seabe connector (yes, it has a double connector, but only one thing for plugs and plugs), this is the most convenient way to convert to a convenient on-the-machine machine from my big desk setup.
With the huge ports of Fusiondock Max 1, external drives from my double 5K, a stream deck and much more can be connected and disconnected without almost any effort, and basically there is no compromise on performance or speed.
All these benefits and technologies packed on Fusiondock Max 1 are not cheap, but it does not carry the general price $ 549.99, so this dock will certainly be everyone, but for power users it may be good for the price tag. Luckily, when you use our Exclusive Promo Code Macrarames on the Ivanki site, the price brings the price to $ 399.99, Ivanki is currently offering $ 150.
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