{"id":2245,"date":"2022-06-17T09:51:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T09:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=2245"},"modified":"2022-06-17T09:51:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T09:51:19","slug":"caldigit-thunderbolt-station-4-ts4-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/archives\/2245","title":{"rendered":"Caldigit Thunderbolt Station 4 (TS4) review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The successor to the popular TS3 Plus docking station, Caldigit\u2019s TS4 Thunderbolt Station 4 dock has a lot to live up to \u2013 and, with a multitude of high-end ports and design flexibility, it succeeds by not changing an award-winning formula.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In many ways, the TS3 redefined the docking station and was our long-time favourite Thunderbolt 3 docking station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Caldigit has waited longer than most to release a Thunderbolt 4 dock, but we are not disappointed as this one is the best we\u2019ve tested. Later, we\u2019ll discuss the differences between Thunderbolt 3 (TB3) and Thunderbolt 4 (TB4) and whether TS3 Plus owners should upgrade to the new TS4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A docking station allows a laptop owner to create a busy desktop setup with just a single USB-C\/TB connection between computer and dock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All the external devices are connected to the dock: from external monitors to fast SSD drives, printer, webcam, memory sticks, keyboard and mouse (if you haven\u2019t caught up with Bluetooth, of course). Many docks also include a card reader so you can add inexpensive portable storage cards, usually SD or microSD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A dock also frees you from the vagaries of Wi-Fi with a wired Ethernet Internet connection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You just walk up, plug in and start working, and unplug when you want to take your laptop elsewhere. Your preferred setup is waiting for you when you return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thunderbolt 4 works with the latest Thunderbolt 4 and USB4 computers and is also backwards compatible with Thunderbolt 3 and USB-C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\n&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/battery-pc-laptop_Lab.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Laptop Battery<\/a> &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/hotproduct.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Hot Products\ufeff<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The successor to the popular TS3 Plus docking station, Caldigit\u2019s TS4 Thunderbolt Station 4 dock has a lot to live up to \u2013 and, with a multitude of high-end ports and design flexibility, it succeeds by not changing an award-winning formula. In many ways, the TS3 redefined the docking station and was our long-time favourite &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/archives\/2245\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Caldigit Thunderbolt Station 4 (TS4) review&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2246,"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245\/revisions\/2246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}