USB-C/Thunderbolt Dock Megathread

Kensington SD5780T

TB4, 96W PD, specced at 2x4K@60Hz among other monitor combos. I only have one 4K@60Hz monitor, connected over HDMI. Also have a USB keyboard, a scanner and sometimes an Android phone connected to the dock.

Seems to work well with:

  • Framework 11th gen, BIOS 3.17, Fedora 37. Had to switch from deep to s2idle sleep to get thunderbolt to work after waking up, other than that no issues so far.

  • Work-issued Macbook Pro M1 13 inch. This is what pushed me to finally get a dock. The design gods only blessed this one with two ports.

  • Older Thinkpad T495, Fedora 37. This one is AMD so no TB, but still has alt mode so display also works fine with the dock.

Overall mildly pleasantly surprised so far. Kensington’s MSRP at $400 is too high, it’s almost $100 less on Amazon.

edit: On the FW and at least under Linux, I had to go back to s2idle and do some more workarounds. Still working well enough: