As technology has evolved, the size of many devices has been particularly reduced if we are talking about laptops and smartphones. However, as their size has been reduced, number of ports Available, even by reaching extremes such as certain equipment which has only USB-C port.
The ports, the guy, have always been responsible for portable They are wider than what we could expect, from where the solution adopted by the manufacturers was to go there.
This problem is not exclusive to laptops because it has also been seen in smartphones, where Jack 3.5 mm It has almost completely disappeared from most of the models we can find on the market.
In computer science, each problem has a solution in application or in accessory. Obviously, to be a problem materialThe solution is not via softwareBut through a device, in particular a HUB.
When buying a hub, we must not be satisfied with the first offer we see on Amazon or PComponent, as long as we want to enjoy the speed which offers the port to which we will connect it.
If the center we buy, it is not compatible with the same version as equipment, Transfer speed Data will not be the same. It is the same thing that happens if we buy an SSD M.2 compatible with PCIe 4.0 And we connect it to a motherboard that only supports PCIe 3.0.
If a laptop or desktop PC compatible with Thunderbolt 5And we want to extend the number of ports, the center we need is the one that has just presented the manufacturer Caldigit. We are talking about element 5.
Consté Thunderbolt 5 compatible hub
He Element 5 is the successor of Element 4 (Fortunately, the question of names was not much complicated) a model very well received by users, so we cannot expect this new model.
This new center which has just presented the manufacturer Caldigit includes a total of 9 ports and works through an external power supply which offers as much as possible 180W Included with the hub.
This model has four ports USB4 Compatible with Thunderbolt 5 with a Bandwidth maximum until 120 GB / s. He also has two ports USB-C 10 Gbps and three ports USB-A at 10 Gbps.
If we want to connect to a PC managed by WindowWe can connect to 3 external screens additional to the team. However, if you use a Mac, you can only add 2 screens further away. This limitation is not linked to the center, but to the limitation of M4 processors de Apple.
Despite this limitation, it is striking that all the promotional images of the Caldigit 5 element show Apple and non-equipped devices with Windows. Admit a double monitor configuration with a 4K resolution at 240 Hz, 6K at 60 Hz and even 8K at 60 Hz.
Price and availability
This new Caldigit Hub compatible with Thunderbolt 5 is now available on its website in the United States by $ 249. His arrival in Europe is scheduled by the end of this month and will do so for the same amount, but in dollars: 249 dollars.
