Thunderbolt dock mac mini m15/21/2023 I had been having intermittent troubles with the 40" 4K display not coming back after the display was blacked out by macOS (energy saving setting) and disappearing from the Mac (the monitors settings panel would not show it at all). I am not using the charging 85W capacity as I have an iMac. The Anker runs hot to the touch, which I guess is understandable with the small and dense size and the amount of stuff running off it. I had another brand TB3 expansion dock that did not work well and was returned and the Anker took its place. I've been using it since last October or so. I use a TB external storage and a USB-C external storage at the same time and also use the SD slot since the SD slot in the iMac has been flaky since forever. I had tried various ports (DP->HDMI etc) that I already had on the existing expansion docks/chassis to drive the 4K 40" over HDMI but nothing worked well (previously I WAS driving a 32" 4K monitor with a pure DP - DP link) but the Anker has worked fine. It is hooked to a 2017 Intel powered iMac which also has an older Caldigit TB2 (using Apple TB2/TB3 adapter) dock and a Akitio Node Lite Thunderbolt PCIe expansion chassis. I also wanted something with an output TB3 port and several 10gbs USB-C ports. I needed something to drive an HDMI enabled 40" 4K TV as a monitor. (They also make a non elite version which is not TB3 but USB-C only). Because of comments about the previous Anker, I just want to leave this: I have the previous generation Anker PowerExpand Elite 13-in-1 Thunderbolt dock.
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