I’m looking for a USB-C docking station for the days I work from home and possibly to hook up my personal laptop too. These machines are an M1 MacBook Pro and a Framework 13 running LMDE, respectively.
The docking station must:
- Connect to the laptop via a USB-C cable of at least 3ft/1m in length. Critical as I am trying to hide the dock beneath my desk.
- Have two HDMI/Display Port outputs.
- At least one USB 3 Type A port, to connect to my KVM.
- At least one USB-C port for power supply. (idc about data for this port)
Bonus if it has Ethernet and/or Micro SD card support too, but not necessary.
For some reason, I can’t find anything matching 2-4 while having a cable longer than about 1ft. Is there some technical limit to USB-C cables preventing a dock from matching all the above criteria?
I second these. The factory cable is probably 1m long, but it’s in the back of the device so depending on where it’s hidden it might be a bit short.
But I picked mine up for like $30 and it works great. I also have the thunderbolt workstation dock at work and it’s been going strong 4 years now. Much better than the el cheapo “hubs” we get for work.