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Thunderbolt hub mac5/20/2023 If you're looking for a dock to go with one of these M1 machines, the OWC is absolutely rock solid. I can operate the Air either lid open or clamshell and the option is there for extended desktops or mirroring (I mirror). I have a Club3d USB-C to Displayport (CAC-1567) dongle on one of the OWC's ports that goes to my docked monitor. The only reason I'm not doing that now (I plug the UFX+ directly into the 2nd Thunderbolt port on the Air) is that I needed another USB-C port for an SSD, but you could operate on one Thunderbolt cable if you want to. To my surprise this worked perfectly, there's no slowdown or anything when hooking the Thunderbolt audio interface through the dock. When I first set it up I had the RME UFX+ connected to one of the extra Thunderbolt ports on the OWC dock, so that I could plug the main dock Thunderbolt cable into the M1 Air and basically the entire studio was connected. The dock powers the Macbook Air, so I only need to plug in the dock and everything is attached. I'm running a small secondary buss powered USB-C dock off this one just to add a few non-critical USB ports for things like iLok and dongle for a Logitech Mx Keys. I have something connected to every port on the dock, mostly USB-C/3 SSDs and Cirklon USB, Ethernet, apart from maybe the SD card/headphone socket. When I'm talking about the OWC Dock, this is specifically the one called OWC Thunderbolt Dock, no numbers in the name, and it is Thunderbolt 4. I'm using the OWC Thunderbolt Dock with the M1 Air as main studio machine just now (have the 16 MBP on the way).
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