Review on Enhanced CalDigit TS3 Plus Thunderbolt 3 Dock with 87W Power Delivery, 7X USB 3.1 Ports, USB-C Gen 2, DisplayPort, UHS-II SD Card Slot, Gigabit Ethernet for Mac & PC, Thunderbolt 4 Compatibility (0.7m/2.3ft Cable) by Joshua Ford

Apple really messed up the design of the Macbook Pro 13" with only two Thunderbolt ports and no other ports at all It's OK If you use your Macbook, it's like a toy, but if you use it for work you need monitors and peripherals, and while you can connect "everything" to the Thunderbolt ports, you can only do two plug in a charger! I've done a lot of research on port replicators for this laptop and there are very, very few that do their job well. I wish I could stick with Dell. But I digress. In the end I chose this Caltech dock and I am very satisfied.I can just plug a thunderbolt cable into my laptop and have instant access to two external Dell 1900x1600 monitors. one of which is turned sideways (the dock supports up to 4k with dual monitors), my awesome Cherry MX USB keyboard, my conference call headset, my Magic Mouse charging cable, and a few other USB knick-knacks. The docking station is self powered and powers the laptop so I can store my own laptop charger elsewhere. The most important thing is 2 monitors + electricity. You can't do this with a 13" Macbook Pro with any of the cheaper docks (unless you have a more expensive Macbook with 4 Thunderbolt ports). Best. With this dock, I was able to reuse most of my existing cables and only had to buy an expensive custom cable. The docking station came with a dock-to-laptop cable. I was able to use my existing DP-to-DP cable for one of the monitors, for the other I had to buy a Thunderbolt-to-DP cable. The docking station has separate microphone and headphone jacks, which happens to be what my headset requires as opposed to a mobile phone 4 - a connector that the Macbook has. The docking station has LOTS of USB ports, which made me very happy. I don't need an external USB hub. This is such a good dock, I would happily buy another one for the other place I use my laptop. But since I only have one monitor there, there are much cheaper alternatives. The only thing I don't like about this dock is the high price. FYI, Apple isn't as good at remembering hardware configurations as Windows. Every time I dock again I have to readjust the monitor layout and reselect the Caltech audio device. It's not Caltech's fault, it just seems like Apple doesn't cater to serious users.