But, perhaps most notably, the dock does not have a Surface Connect port. One of the main selling points of the dock is support for enterprise-grade features. The Surface Thunderbolt 4 Dock has eight ports and provides a comprehensive collection of eight current USB Type-C and legacy USB Type-A connectors along with a 2.5GbE. Two years later, the Surface Pro 8 was also released with support Thunderbolt.Microsoft has introduced a new docking station for its latest Surface devices equipped with Thunderbolt 4 ports. Recall that Microsoft first adopted the USB-C (or USB Type-C) standard in a device of the Surface family with the presentation of the Surface Pro 7 in the year 2019. It’s very likely that a Surface device will be announced in the near future that will not have the Surface Connect connector in favor of the highly flexible USB-C standard (and it’s not the first time that this has happened, as the Surface 3 was only available with a micro charging port USB and not with the dedicated Surface Connect connector). Microsoft’s recent Surface devices such as the Surface Laptop 5 and Surface Pro 9 have both USB-C ports that support Thunderbolt 4 and the dedicated Surface Connect port. While the launch of the Surface Thunderbolt 4 Dock doesn’t mark the immediate end of the Surface Connect port, it’s clear that Microsoft is heading in that direction.
On the other side of the Surface Thunderbolt 4 Dock are two USB-C ports, two USB-A ports, a 2.5Gb Ethernet port, an audio jack, and a Kensington Lock slot. On the front, there’s a USB-C port along with a USB-A port but no SD card reader like we’ve seen on other similar dock-style devices. Thanks to the support of the Thunderbolt 4 protocol, data transfer speeds of up to 40 Gbps and 96 W charging are supported. Microsoft plans to continue selling the Surface Dock 2, which plugs into the Surface Connect connector and is designed for Surface devices that don’t have a connector that leverages the USB-C or Thunderbolt 4 standard.Īlso for the first time, the new Surface Thunderbolt 4 Dock supports other devices/computers beyond the Surface series computers. Priced at $299.99 in the US, the Surface Thunderbolt 4 Dock plugs into a single USB-C connector instead of the dedicated Surface Connect connector. Just hours after the product photos leaked, Microsoft announced an accessory for Surface computers-and more: the Surface Thunderbolt 4 Dock.
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