“Back around 1993, I had the exciting combination of a PowerBook 210 with a Duo MiniDock,” Glenn Fleishman writes for Macworld. “It only had one port—not even a headphone jack—but an innovative docking connector meant I could hook it into a full-fledged desktop setup with an external monitor, hard drives, and network.”
“I flashed back to this experience when I unpacked and started to test the new USB-C Dock from OWC, designed to work with the 12-inch Apple MacBook introduced almost a year ago,” Fleishman writes. “It’s true, compared tot he PowerBook 210, networking speeds are more than 4,000 times faster (gigabit ethernet versus AppleTalk), the MacBook has 2,000 times more RAM, and the hard drive I picked (512GB SSD) has over 6,000 times the capacity. But it’s remarkable how much the purpose and even the rough size has remained the same.”
Fleishman writes, “If you’re ready now or the feature set meets or exceeds your needs, there’s no reason to wait: The USB-C Dock neatly extends a MacBook to act like a desktop.”
Much more in the full review here.
MacDailyNews Take: Kind of reminds us of our BookEnz Docking Stations for our PowerBooks in the late 90s/early 00s.