This Thunderbolt 5 dock is lightning fast, charges your laptop, and looks like a spaceship (and it's got $45 off)

Anker Prime Thunderbolt 5 Dock
(Image credit: Future / Ian Evenden)

It is a fact universally acknowledged that a young creative, in possession of a new laptop, must be in want of more USB ports. And a dock provides exactly that.

The need becomes even more pressing when it comes to the latest USB-C ports on the market, Thunderbolt 5. Faced with such an unstoppable torrent of data, it’s an irrepressible human need to hang as many peripherals on it as possible, and a dock enables this to extremes, with video and data ports, card slots and networking.

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Ian Evenden
Freelance writer

Ian Evenden has been a journalist for over 20 years, starting in the days of QuarkXpress 4 and Photoshop 5. He now mainly works in Creative Cloud and Google Docs, but can always find a use for a powerful laptop or two. When not sweating over page layout or photo editing, you can find him peering at the stars or growing vegetables.

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