WEBVTT 00:00:00.719 --> 00:00:09.679 It's a Thunderbolt dock, Lionus. Who the flip cares? This guy. This is not a 00:00:06.640 --> 00:00:13.679 Thunderbolt dock. This is the 00:00:09.679 --> 00:00:16.800 Thunderbolt dock. The TS5 Plus+ from Cal 00:00:13.679 --> 00:00:20.480 Digit. It not only supports Thunderbolt 00:00:16.800 --> 00:00:24.640 5, which yes, my friends, means up to 00:00:20.480 --> 00:00:26.359 120 GB per second in boost mode, but it 00:00:24.640 --> 00:00:31.840 supports 250 watts of power output. 00:00:29.760 --> 00:00:39.600 140 of which can go to charging your laptop and the other about 105ish can go 00:00:36.800 --> 00:00:44.239 to powering your other devices without taking away from the power that it's 00:00:41.440 --> 00:00:49.800 providing for your laptop. And in order to do 00:00:45.399 --> 00:00:53.879 that, they needed the Mac Daddy of Power 00:00:49.800 --> 00:00:58.640 Bricks. Look at this freaking thing. 00:00:53.879 --> 00:01:00.800 330 watts, my friends. Wow. Oh, yeah. 00:00:58.640 --> 00:01:05.439 cuz I guess it needs even more power to power like all the other stuff in 00:01:03.520 --> 00:01:11.040 addition to the charging. That's freaking wild. And boy is there ever a 00:01:09.600 --> 00:01:15.840 lot of stuff. Okay, hold on a second. Let's get the unboxing part complete. 00:01:13.119 --> 00:01:22.640 Oo, comes with a nice little braided Thunderbolt cable. Rated for up to 240 00:01:19.200 --> 00:01:26.080 watts. Thunderbolt 5. Love seeing that 00:01:22.640 --> 00:01:29.119 nice clear labeling. Also feels quality. 00:01:26.080 --> 00:01:33.320 All right, what else we got in here? 00:01:29.119 --> 00:01:36.680 Okay. C13 power cable. Not that 00:01:33.320 --> 00:01:39.479 exciting. Oh, but that's what we're here 00:01:36.680 --> 00:01:45.840 for. Oh my god. Look. Okay, look. I know my hands 00:01:43.600 --> 00:01:49.680 are not exactly, you know, the best to get the idea of the scale of an object. 00:01:48.240 --> 00:01:53.520 But this is not the size of a Thunderbolt dock. This is the size of a 00:01:51.439 --> 00:01:58.840 whole flipping computer. Look at this thing. What kind of things will you be 00:01:55.520 --> 00:02:00.840 plugging in? I am so glad you 00:01:58.840 --> 00:02:06.799 asked. All of them. Let's start at the front. Micro SD 00:02:04.640 --> 00:02:13.040 SD UHS2. So, you're going to get the fastest read and write speeds. We've got 00:02:09.039 --> 00:02:15.840 a couple of USBC ports. This one does 36 00:02:13.040 --> 00:02:20.000 watts of charging. A USBA as well as a headphone microphone combo jack. This 00:02:18.319 --> 00:02:24.080 little indicator right here turns on when you have a link with your PC or 00:02:22.160 --> 00:02:27.440 Mac. Uh, my understanding is a lot of the folks buying these are more Mac 00:02:25.760 --> 00:02:32.000 people. But hey, you can have bad taste in computers, but still have good taste 00:02:29.040 --> 00:02:36.000 in docks. Hey, hey, hey, I'm just teasing. I'm just I'm just messing. I'm 00:02:33.920 --> 00:02:43.760 just messing. Back here at the back, we've got our power in 24vt, 13 amps, 10 00:02:40.480 --> 00:02:46.599 gig networking. That is freaking 00:02:43.760 --> 00:02:52.720 awesome. Yes, this is a $500 Thunderbolt dock. It's expensive, 00:02:50.480 --> 00:02:57.920 but the functionality here is outstanding. It includes a 10 gig LAN 00:02:54.720 --> 00:03:00.000 port. Awesome. We've got four more USBA 00:02:57.920 --> 00:03:04.800 ports, two of which will be fully operational to charge devices even when 00:03:02.480 --> 00:03:10.159 you do not have your computer docked to your dock. We've got our uplink that 00:03:07.680 --> 00:03:14.159 will do up to 140 watts of charging back to your computer. We'll try that out in 00:03:11.599 --> 00:03:20.159 a second. As well as two more 36 watt USBC's and three more USBC data ports. 00:03:18.239 --> 00:03:26.800 Now, one of the coolest things about the USB implementation on this dock is that 00:03:22.720 --> 00:03:29.440 it actually has a second USB controller. 00:03:26.800 --> 00:03:34.560 So, instead of just using your Thunderbolt uplink to split to all of 00:03:32.480 --> 00:03:42.159 the various ports on the dock, it actually uses Thunderbolt to PCIe to a 00:03:39.360 --> 00:03:47.680 USB controller chip that powers some of the other ports. That's how they're able 00:03:44.159 --> 00:03:50.480 to have so many high-speed ports. really 00:03:47.680 --> 00:03:54.400 cool implementation. Expensive, but cool. We've also got a line in, I 00:03:52.720 --> 00:03:59.680 believe it is, as well as a headphone jack. So, dedicated headphone jack, 00:03:56.000 --> 00:04:01.599 non-combo jack, and DisplayPort 2.1. 00:03:59.680 --> 00:04:05.280 This is really nice to see as well because it allows you to connect the 00:04:03.519 --> 00:04:11.360 fastest modern displays. I'm talking up to your 500 Hz displays or even 8K 60. 00:04:08.879 --> 00:04:15.920 And the best part is that's just one of the supported displays. You can also 00:04:13.599 --> 00:04:20.120 connect Thunderbolt displays at up to that same resolution. In fact, Cal Digit 00:04:18.239 --> 00:04:26.080 has a nice little matrix here that shows exactly how the man, what is it? 00:04:23.639 --> 00:04:29.600 TS5++ or is it just plus and the little plus is extra? I don't know. That 00:04:28.000 --> 00:04:34.560 doesn't matter. The point is you can connect a flip ton of displays to this 00:04:31.479 --> 00:04:36.880 thing depending on exactly which 00:04:34.560 --> 00:04:39.840 computer you're using. All right, enough of the theoretical stuff. 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That's right, my friends. is the 00:05:56.240 --> 00:06:02.880 LAN port on this baby is 10 times the speed of gigabit. That's what they say 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:06.880 on the box. Of course, you're only going to be able to benefit from that as much 00:06:04.560 --> 00:06:10.319 as you actually, you know, are connected to anything that can support those 00:06:08.160 --> 00:06:14.240 speeds. Most internet connections are not going to be that fast, but 10 gig 00:06:12.319 --> 00:06:18.880 can be a godsend when you're transferring large files over the local 00:06:16.720 --> 00:06:24.080 network or editing off of a network attached storage device like you might 00:06:20.960 --> 00:06:26.880 be doing on your MacBook or other Mac 00:06:24.080 --> 00:06:31.919 that is a, you know, a desktop computer but yet doesn't have a ton of I/IO. This 00:06:29.440 --> 00:06:35.600 right here, that's your IO box and you can afford it because you bought a Mac. 00:06:33.919 --> 00:06:39.840 So, I just assume you just have money to burn. No, no, no. I'm just teasing. I'm 00:06:37.680 --> 00:06:45.680 just teasing. I'm just teasing. What do I use my TS4 for? Oh, my TS4 uses an 00:06:43.360 --> 00:06:51.360 optical Thunderbolt cable to run down to my mechanical room and it allows me to 00:06:48.800 --> 00:06:56.560 run all of my peripherals, my monitor, everything over that one Thunderbolt 00:06:53.840 --> 00:07:01.599 link without having to have the noise and the heat of the computer actually in 00:06:59.199 --> 00:07:06.400 the room with me at the same time. Now, I'm not aware of any uh desktop 00:07:04.880 --> 00:07:10.960 motherboards that currently support Thunderbolt 5, so I would have no reason 00:07:09.280 --> 00:07:16.479 to upgrade to Thunderbolt 5 at the moment. But if I were to do that in the 00:07:13.759 --> 00:07:21.280 future, hey, I could have even higher speed peripherals and more importantly, 00:07:19.199 --> 00:07:24.960 multi- highresolution monitors running off of this dock. So, I think that's the 00:07:23.440 --> 00:07:31.120 coolest thing about it. What do you think? Can we get Counterstrike downloaded in reasonable time? Dang, I 00:07:28.560 --> 00:07:35.599 think so. Yep. Two minutes. Let's go. It's going to take me that long to go 00:07:32.400 --> 00:07:37.680 get my mouse. We are using all the CPU. 00:07:35.599 --> 00:07:43.120 All of it. Oh, how's our charging situation, though? This giant freaking 00:07:40.479 --> 00:07:45.880 laptop. Okay, that has a power brick that you could literally make a house 00:07:44.880 --> 00:07:50.880 out of. Like, look at this thing. Okay, 00:07:48.960 --> 00:07:58.319 yeah, we're not gaming yet. We don't actually have the GPU fired up yet, but 00:07:53.879 --> 00:08:00.240 like dude is running at 100% CPU and is 00:07:58.319 --> 00:08:05.039 not even complaining about not having a powerful enough brick 00:08:01.960 --> 00:08:07.120 attached. That is flipping awesome. 00:08:05.039 --> 00:08:13.599 Whoa, what happened? I might have done something while I was like bashing the 00:08:09.280 --> 00:08:15.120 table. It stopped downloading fast. Uh, 00:08:13.599 --> 00:08:19.280 dude, I'm going to play Counterstrike while I download Cyberpunk. 00:08:17.759 --> 00:08:23.280 Yeah, dude. I don't know what it is, but I can't even get kills in like casual 00:08:21.280 --> 00:08:26.400 Counter Strike matches anymore. Okay, she's struggling a little bit with the 00:08:24.720 --> 00:08:31.039 game download going in the background. Dude, I want to see when we're actually 00:08:28.919 --> 00:08:37.839 gaming how much power we're going to lose because if we're using more than 00:08:35.360 --> 00:08:41.959 140 watts, obviously the battery is going to drain a little. The question is 00:08:39.919 --> 00:08:48.000 just how fast, right? All right, let's 00:08:44.519 --> 00:08:50.240 go. That's Thunderbolt 5 speed, baby. 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:57.600 I'm not a power user enough for you. Boom. Three kills. Let's go. No. Bot 00:08:54.040 --> 00:09:00.000 conl. How could you? Look. No. The power 00:08:57.600 --> 00:09:04.399 is a huge huge part of this thing though. Like the fact that I can do this 00:09:01.920 --> 00:09:12.320 at all and my laptop's not just like losing its mind right now. Like I'm at 00:09:06.640 --> 00:09:14.440 99% here. Ah. Go away. No. Stop. Please. 00:09:12.320 --> 00:09:21.040 How much battery did we lose, though? Like none. We're at 99%. That's 00:09:21.480 --> 00:09:29.640 wild. Off a USBC port. Is no one else 00:09:24.640 --> 00:09:32.000 caring about this? That's on a USBC 00:09:29.640 --> 00:09:40.240 port. I don't even I'm not even using this thing. Listen to how heavy it 00:09:36.600 --> 00:09:43.040 is. I mean, h I guess we could be 00:09:40.240 --> 00:09:47.600 excited about having a fast SD card port or whatever. Here, we'll copy some 00:09:45.040 --> 00:09:52.080 footage. over 200 megabytes a second. There you happy? And I can game at the 00:09:49.839 --> 00:09:55.720 same time. That's right. It can power that card. It could power I could charge 00:09:54.959 --> 00:10:00.360 my phone. That's the cool thing is the 00:09:58.399 --> 00:10:06.240 power budget is not shared. So now I could be charging my 00:10:02.880 --> 00:10:08.320 phone and boom, I still have my whole 00:10:06.240 --> 00:10:12.480 140 watts for this thing. That's flipping awesome. No, I don't want to 00:10:10.160 --> 00:10:18.240 compare it to the TS5. TS5 it's old news. This is new news. You can't be 00:10:15.279 --> 00:10:22.720 news if you're old. Wisdom. We finished copying your file there. You happy? 00:10:20.240 --> 00:10:29.160 While I launch Cyberpunk, I will look at the TS5. This has 2 and 1/2 00:10:25.720 --> 00:10:33.560 gig less A 00:10:29.160 --> 00:10:35.600 ports, 20 watt. 20 W. What if I need 36 00:10:33.560 --> 00:10:40.079 watts? Come on. You don't want this anymore. This is the regular TS5. It 00:10:38.160 --> 00:10:44.800 doesn't even have a DisplayPort. Okay, that's actually a downer. Not having a 00:10:42.320 --> 00:10:49.519 DisplayPort port is not that cool because you can get adapters like seated 00:10:47.200 --> 00:10:53.360 to whatever adapters, but why would you want to use an adapter? You just spent 00:10:50.800 --> 00:10:58.240 hundreds of dollars on a dog. The whole point was that it's the one adapter. No, 00:10:56.160 --> 00:11:02.720 this is the one adapter. All right, let's see if we can get this thing to 00:10:59.440 --> 00:11:06.040 drain. All right, why is this running so 00:11:02.720 --> 00:11:10.079 ass? Dude, I think the power profile is 00:11:06.040 --> 00:11:13.839 lower. Oh man, I was so excited. I was 00:11:10.079 --> 00:11:16.399 so excited. I'm still excited, okay, 00:11:13.839 --> 00:11:21.040 because 140 watts is still a flipping lot, but I will be less excited if I 00:11:18.959 --> 00:11:25.120 find out that it's on the laptop side where they'll just kind of limit how 00:11:23.360 --> 00:11:29.279 much power they'll allow it to draw if you're not actually using the main plug. 00:11:26.720 --> 00:11:35.839 And it looks like they do. So, this is maxing out at like 40 watts. So, we're 00:11:32.880 --> 00:11:40.440 using it, but we're not really using it. I have seen machines where they will 00:11:38.000 --> 00:11:46.839 allow you to draw as much as you want and it'll just use the battery to 00:11:43.200 --> 00:11:50.320 augment it, but this is not one of them 00:11:46.839 --> 00:11:52.880 unfortunately. Okay, so 140 watts is not 00:11:50.320 --> 00:11:57.440 enough to run a full fat gaming laptop, but if you had a lighter machine that 00:11:55.120 --> 00:12:02.079 doesn't have an RTX 50 flipping 80 mobile in it or whatever, then you would 00:12:00.000 --> 00:12:07.040 be able to do it. Now, I said earlier that this is really expensive. That's 00:12:04.079 --> 00:12:12.880 because it is. It's like 500 bucks for the plus and then I think it's like 370 00:12:10.079 --> 00:12:16.959 for the non plus. But hey, you'll have a Thunderbolt 5 dock. And can your friends 00:12:15.200 --> 00:12:22.560 say they have a Thunderbolt 5 dock? I didn't think so. Subscribe to Short 00:12:20.320 --> 00:12:22.560 Circuit.