Razer's New Thunderbolt 4 Dock: Connectivity Options Explained
Last week, Razer unveiled its first-ever external dock for PC gaming — the Razer Thunderbolt 4 Dock Chroma. Launched alongside a new laptop stand, the latest peripheral has a variety of different ports to help users get the most out of their gaming experience, but is it worth checking out? Here's a look at all the connectivity options for Razer's latest device.
Founded in 1998, Razer is a Singaporean-American tech company that sells a variety of products, from consumer electronics to financial services to, most notably, gaming hardware. Razer offers a wide selection of different gaming peripherals, including mice, keyboards, graphics cards and even laptops. More recently, Razer unveiled Project Hazel, the company's smart face mask concept.
The new Razer Thunderbolt 4 Dock Chroma offers a plethora of ways to connect devices. In total, it comes with ten different ports. There are four Thunderbolt 4 USB-C ports, three USB-A ports (i.e. the old-school USB cables used by more legacy devices), an RJ-45 Gigabit Ethernet jack for wired internet, a 3.5mm combo audio jack for headsets, as well as an SD card reader that can read UHS-II (ultra-high-speed) memory cards. Razer's new dock comes with a 135-watt power supply, but it can also provide 90 watts of power to other devices via one of the USB-C ports. Therefore, users can charge their phones, other gaming peripherals or even a laptop as they use the dock. It's also designed with aesthetics in mind. The Razer Thunderbolt 4 Dock Chroma is 7.48 inches by 2.93 inches by 1.06 inches and has a matte black anodized aluminum finish with a strip of Razer Chroma RGB lighting along the bottom. This lighting can be adjusted to any of the 16.8 million colors available in Razer Synapse 3, the company's hardware configuration software. (Though, that software doesn't work with macOS.)
Razer's Thunderbolt 4 Dock Chroma has a bandwidth of 40Gbps. As such, it has the capability to support either dual 4K monitors at 60Hz or a single 8K display at 30Hz. This makes it an ideal solution for graphic intensive endeavors, such as high-end gaming or even video editing. Since the dock's memory card slot can read UHS-II SD cards, users can quickly transfer photos and 4K video.
Of course. the Razer Thunderbolt 4 Dock Chroma is clearly aimed at the premium consumer. In other words, the buyer's hardware can't be too out of date. PCs need to be running Windows 10 and have either a Thunderbolt 4 or older Thunderbolt 3 port. Apple customers need to own a Mac with an M1 Processor or a Thunderbolt 3 port, and it must be running at least macOS 11.1 Big Sur. The dock is available to pre-order now from Razer and RazerStore retail locations for $329.99.
Source: Razer
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