CalDigit Thunderbolt 4 Element Hub - 4X USB4 Ports, USB 3.2 Gen2 10Gb/s, Single 8K or Dual 4K Displays, 60W Charging, 0.8m Cable

I searched for some time for exactly my need and this Caldigit fits the bill. My MBP lacks USB-A ports completely and I'm using one of three USB-C ports for my ethernet connection, leaving only two ports. I didn't need all the extra ports that seem to populate today's hubs and docks. Finally my path crossed the Caldigit Thunderbolt Hub with three upstream USB-C (Thunderbolt) ports and four USB-A port (and no unneeded ports), just what I had been seeking. It works great even supplying PD charging via one of my MBP's Thunderbolt ports. And it looks great, matching my computer's look.

This dock is expensive, but it works flawlessly. I tried a Cable Matters and Belkin dock before this, but ran into weird issues with both that made me return them.The only limitation I've ran into is hitting the ceiling of what thunderbolt 4 on Mac is able to handle. Currently, I run 4k 120hz + 2k 60hz monitors without issue. I wasn't able to set my 2k monitor to 120hz, since I ran into stability issues, but that's a Mac problem.

This review was written immediately after opening the box and testing for what I needed. Will update if needed but for now, it seems like it does what I need.I have a laptop with a single TB3 port (Dell XPS-15 9550) and wanted to use that as a mobile podcasting system. Glad to report that I am getting low latency audio out of my Apollo X4 (64 samples at 48khz) and 4k 30fps video out of my 2 Kiyo ProUltra's via this device.I had a Dell ThunderBolt 4 Dock (WD22TB4) for my work laptop but I didnt want to have to disconnect that (and then reconnect it) to borrow it every time for podcasting stuff. The CalDigit hub gave me more C-type and A-type ports which is what I needed in order to properly connect everything I needed (mouse dongle, streamdeck, soundcard, webcams, etc). The Dell would work well too but this gives me what I need and none of the extras I dont need (display ports, hdmi, ethernet). The big advantage of the CalDigit over the Dell peripherial is 1 extra USB port and half the size.The only thing was that my Dell XPS15 bios complained about the 65w power coming from the CalDigit being too low, though during testing over a few hours, I did not notice the battery losing power at all (laptop was running in "high power" mode while being charged through the CalDigit via the TB port). Its not a terrible extra step to have to plug in the laptop but you know, less stuff is less stuff. I will update on this if needed.EDIT: Used this with my rig this weekend and a few notes.I did need to plug in my laptop if I ran it on "high power" mode. The battery did drain slowly and the CPU did throttle itself as if it were just running on the battery. Plugging the laptop in isnt a big deal but its worth mentioning.The UAD X4 was sometimes unrecognized. I would need to restart the laptop and the hardware in order to get a proper handshake. Not sure if this is a limitation of the TB4 hub, the laptop or my X4 but in general when using my X4 on my desktop, it always gets recognized without fail. Again, not a big deal but worth mentioning. I always restart after Im done setting everything up just to be sure I have a fresh system but sometimes I needed to do that 2 or 3 times until I got the X4's status bar to show up and let me know it was recognized. Restarting the X4 while the computer remained running wouldnt fix the issue. I have a feeling it was the laptops fault as I saw the Windows notivication (error message) that TB was not recognized. The TB application would show the hub but it wouldnt show the X4.The cameras were always recognized without issue.USB dongles for my keyboard and mouse were always quick to respond and didnt drop out.Elgato Streamdeck worked fine as well.

This is the worst item I have bought. I have tried everything to get it to connect to my Thunderbolt enabled ASUS Zenbook but the computer does not recognize it. Trying to connect anything through this product doesn't connect. It is worthless and too late to return.After I connected with CalDigit about my problem, I realized I had set the hub up wrong. Once I corrected my mistake, it works great.

Seems to work well within certain boundaries. I have it connected to a macbook pro M4 with an external thunderbolt display. I wanted to connect two macbook laptops for high speed transfers. Works well with only one downstream mac. When I connect the second the first one loses it's connection to the thunderbolt hub from a networking perspective.I don't know if that's a shortcoming of the hub or the thunderbolt architecture itself. The hub does seem to run a bit hot though I don't know why. My macbook is drawing power from a wall wart so no idea why it's run so warm.