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The best docking stations for laptops in 2025
Docking stations give back the ports your laptop probably lacks. We tested a dozen and came up with our favorites for different users.
There’s a lot to appreciate about CalDigit’s TS4 docking station: It has a sturdy, upright design with a host connection at the rear and a whopping five downstream USB-C ports, two of which are Thunderbolt 4, the other two are USB 3.2, which can support transfers of up to 10 Gbps. Most docking stations offer a few USB Type-A ports, which are great for peripherals like wired mice and keyboards, bus-powered ring lights and flash drives. When I pulled the Plugable TBT4-UDZ Thunderbolt 4 out of the box, I was convinced it would make the cut: It has a practical upright design, an attractive metal finish, and the host connection is TB4.
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