If you’re feeling like your MacBook or other laptop has fewer ports than you need, Belkin looks to have covered.
The dock connects to your laptop through a single Thunderbolt 5 upstream port and ships with an 180W power adapter and a one-metre Thunderbolt 5 cable, delivering up to 140W of USB Power Delivery to a connected laptop across that same connection.
That upstream link operates at 80Gbps under standard conditions and scales automatically to 120Gbps when the system detects that higher-resolution display output requires the additional bandwidth headroom that Thunderbolt 5 makes available over its predecessors.
Display output reaches through one DisplayPort 2.1 and one HDMI 2.1 port, both of which support up to 8K at 60Hz or 4K at 240Hz depending on the connected monitor, while two downstream Thunderbolt 5 ports add further video routing and supply up to 15W each to connected accessories.
Windows users connecting three external 4K screens at 144Hz can run all of them simultaneously through this single dock, with a fourth display possible when accounting for the laptop panel itself, though Mac support depends on the generation of Apple Silicon installed in the host machine.
Apple M4 and M5 machines handle multiple external displays without restriction, while M1, M2, and M3 models remain subject to the display output limits that Apple built into those earlier chip generations regardless of what the dock itself supports.
The remaining port selection covers a 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet connection, a 3.5mm audio jack, one USB-C 3.2 port at 30W, a second USB-C 3.2 port at 7.5W, one USB-A 3.2 port at 10Gbps, two USB-A 3.0 ports each running at 5Gbps, and UHS-II SD 4.0 and microSD 4.0 card readers rated at 312MB/s.
The aluminium chassis measures 22.2 x 8.5 x 2cm and weighs 510g, with Belkin incorporating a thermal management system, a power button, an LED status indicator, and a Kensington lock slot into the unit alongside compatibility with Thunderbolt 4, USB4, and USB-C devices, though Thunderbolt 3 falls outside its supported connection types.
Belkin has not confirmed pricing or availability outside China, though the company briefly listed the dock on its global website at $350 before removing the page, a detail that points toward a wider international release at some stage in the coming months.
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