It's a Thunderbolt dock, Lionus. Who the flip cares? This guy. This is not a
Thunderbolt dock. This is the
Thunderbolt dock. The TS5 Plus+ from Cal
Digit. It not only supports Thunderbolt
5, which yes, my friends, means up to
120 GB per second in boost mode, but it
supports 250 watts of power output.
140 of which can go to charging your laptop and the other about 105ish can go
to powering your other devices without taking away from the power that it's
providing for your laptop. And in order to do
that, they needed the Mac Daddy of Power
Bricks. Look at this freaking thing.
330 watts, my friends. Wow. Oh, yeah.
cuz I guess it needs even more power to power like all the other stuff in
addition to the charging. That's freaking wild. And boy is there ever a
lot of stuff. Okay, hold on a second. Let's get the unboxing part complete.
Oo, comes with a nice little braided Thunderbolt cable. Rated for up to 240
watts. Thunderbolt 5. Love seeing that
nice clear labeling. Also feels quality.
All right, what else we got in here?
Okay. C13 power cable. Not that
exciting. Oh, but that's what we're here
for. Oh my god. Look. Okay, look. I know my hands
are not exactly, you know, the best to get the idea of the scale of an object.
But this is not the size of a Thunderbolt dock. This is the size of a
whole flipping computer. Look at this thing. What kind of things will you be
plugging in? I am so glad you
asked. All of them. Let's start at the front. Micro SD
SD UHS2. So, you're going to get the fastest read and write speeds. We've got
a couple of USBC ports. This one does 36
watts of charging. A USBA as well as a headphone microphone combo jack. This
little indicator right here turns on when you have a link with your PC or
Mac. Uh, my understanding is a lot of the folks buying these are more Mac
people. But hey, you can have bad taste in computers, but still have good taste
in docks. Hey, hey, hey, I'm just teasing. I'm just I'm just messing. I'm
just messing. Back here at the back, we've got our power in 24vt, 13 amps, 10
gig networking. That is freaking
awesome. Yes, this is a $500 Thunderbolt dock. It's expensive,
but the functionality here is outstanding. It includes a 10 gig LAN
port. Awesome. We've got four more USBA
ports, two of which will be fully operational to charge devices even when
you do not have your computer docked to your dock. We've got our uplink that
will do up to 140 watts of charging back to your computer. We'll try that out in
a second. As well as two more 36 watt USBC's and three more USBC data ports.
Now, one of the coolest things about the USB implementation on this dock is that
it actually has a second USB controller.
So, instead of just using your Thunderbolt uplink to split to all of
the various ports on the dock, it actually uses Thunderbolt to PCIe to a
USB controller chip that powers some of the other ports. That's how they're able
to have so many high-speed ports. really
cool implementation. Expensive, but cool. We've also got a line in, I
believe it is, as well as a headphone jack. So, dedicated headphone jack,
non-combo jack, and DisplayPort 2.1.
This is really nice to see as well because it allows you to connect the
fastest modern displays. I'm talking up to your 500 Hz displays or even 8K 60.
And the best part is that's just one of the supported displays. You can also
connect Thunderbolt displays at up to that same resolution. In fact, Cal Digit
has a nice little matrix here that shows exactly how the man, what is it?
TS5++ or is it just plus and the little plus is extra? I don't know. That
doesn't matter. The point is you can connect a flip ton of displays to this
thing depending on exactly which
computer you're using. All right, enough of the theoretical stuff. There's a
Kensington lock. Let's go ahead and connect it to something, shall we?
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tell these guys have been doing it a long time. So, I didn't even think about this, but of course, the uplink is the
lowest one because that's the one you're most likely to be fussing around with
all the time. So, it's the one that you're most likely to knock it over with. This Raider from MSI is the
absolute unit of a laptop that we had to use to find anything with flipping
Thunderbolt 5 on it. Show me that 10
gig. Woo! That's right, my friends. is the
LAN port on this baby is 10 times the speed of gigabit. That's what they say
on the box. Of course, you're only going to be able to benefit from that as much
as you actually, you know, are connected to anything that can support those
speeds. Most internet connections are not going to be that fast, but 10 gig
can be a godsend when you're transferring large files over the local
network or editing off of a network attached storage device like you might
be doing on your MacBook or other Mac
that is a, you know, a desktop computer but yet doesn't have a ton of I/IO. This
right here, that's your IO box and you can afford it because you bought a Mac.
So, I just assume you just have money to burn. No, no, no. I'm just teasing. I'm
just teasing. I'm just teasing. What do I use my TS4 for? Oh, my TS4 uses an
optical Thunderbolt cable to run down to my mechanical room and it allows me to
run all of my peripherals, my monitor, everything over that one Thunderbolt
link without having to have the noise and the heat of the computer actually in
the room with me at the same time. Now, I'm not aware of any uh desktop
motherboards that currently support Thunderbolt 5, so I would have no reason
to upgrade to Thunderbolt 5 at the moment. But if I were to do that in the
future, hey, I could have even higher speed peripherals and more importantly,
multi- highresolution monitors running off of this dock. So, I think that's the
coolest thing about it. What do you think? Can we get Counterstrike downloaded in reasonable time? Dang, I
think so. Yep. Two minutes. Let's go. It's going to take me that long to go
get my mouse. We are using all the CPU.
All of it. Oh, how's our charging situation, though? This giant freaking
laptop. Okay, that has a power brick that you could literally make a house
out of. Like, look at this thing. Okay,
yeah, we're not gaming yet. We don't actually have the GPU fired up yet, but
like dude is running at 100% CPU and is
not even complaining about not having a powerful enough brick
attached. That is flipping awesome.
Whoa, what happened? I might have done something while I was like bashing the
table. It stopped downloading fast. Uh,
dude, I'm going to play Counterstrike while I download Cyberpunk.
Yeah, dude. I don't know what it is, but I can't even get kills in like casual
Counter Strike matches anymore. Okay, she's struggling a little bit with the
game download going in the background. Dude, I want to see when we're actually
gaming how much power we're going to lose because if we're using more than
140 watts, obviously the battery is going to drain a little. The question is
just how fast, right? All right, let's
go. That's Thunderbolt 5 speed, baby.
I'm not a power user enough for you. Boom. Three kills. Let's go. No. Bot
conl. How could you? Look. No. The power
is a huge huge part of this thing though. Like the fact that I can do this
at all and my laptop's not just like losing its mind right now. Like I'm at
99% here. Ah. Go away. No. Stop. Please.
How much battery did we lose, though? Like none. We're at 99%. That's
wild. Off a USBC port. Is no one else
caring about this? That's on a USBC
port. I don't even I'm not even using this thing. Listen to how heavy it
is. I mean, h I guess we could be
excited about having a fast SD card port or whatever. Here, we'll copy some
footage. over 200 megabytes a second. There you happy? And I can game at the
same time. That's right. It can power that card. It could power I could charge
my phone. That's the cool thing is the
power budget is not shared. So now I could be charging my
phone and boom, I still have my whole
140 watts for this thing. That's flipping awesome. No, I don't want to
compare it to the TS5. TS5 it's old news. This is new news. You can't be
news if you're old. Wisdom. We finished copying your file there. You happy?
While I launch Cyberpunk, I will look at the TS5. This has 2 and 1/2
gig less A
ports, 20 watt. 20 W. What if I need 36
watts? Come on. You don't want this anymore. This is the regular TS5. It
doesn't even have a DisplayPort. Okay, that's actually a downer. Not having a
DisplayPort port is not that cool because you can get adapters like seated
to whatever adapters, but why would you want to use an adapter? You just spent
hundreds of dollars on a dog. The whole point was that it's the one adapter. No,
this is the one adapter. All right, let's see if we can get this thing to
drain. All right, why is this running so
ass? Dude, I think the power profile is
lower. Oh man, I was so excited. I was
so excited. I'm still excited, okay,
because 140 watts is still a flipping lot, but I will be less excited if I
find out that it's on the laptop side where they'll just kind of limit how
much power they'll allow it to draw if you're not actually using the main plug.
And it looks like they do. So, this is maxing out at like 40 watts. So, we're
using it, but we're not really using it. I have seen machines where they will
allow you to draw as much as you want and it'll just use the battery to
augment it, but this is not one of them
unfortunately. Okay, so 140 watts is not
enough to run a full fat gaming laptop, but if you had a lighter machine that
doesn't have an RTX 50 flipping 80 mobile in it or whatever, then you would
be able to do it. Now, I said earlier that this is really expensive. That's
because it is. It's like 500 bucks for the plus and then I think it's like 370
for the non plus. But hey, you'll have a Thunderbolt 5 dock. And can your friends
say they have a Thunderbolt 5 dock? I didn't think so. Subscribe to Short
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