Lenovo ThinkPad Thunderbolt 4 Workstation Dock Unboxing
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- Опубліковано 25 лис 2024
- I needed to upgrade my docking station so figured I would do an unboxing of it. This will be for both my personal ThinkPad P1 Gen 4 and my work, ThinkPad T14s Gen 2.
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You should be able to connect 3 separate monitors through three video ports ( 2 DP and 1 HDMI)
Sometimes it is nice to see modern hardware come out of the box!
I just ordered this dock today, universal edition, to use with my personal and work laptops that will be outputting to a KVM switch to share with my desktop.
Nice!
@@retropcdurham Just to follow up this dock exhibited some strange behavior with my two laptops. On my HP Elitebook 845 G7 work laptop it would only drive one monitor at its native 1440p at 59hz and dropped the 2nd one to 1080p at 30hz. The it blocked me moving open windows around so I finally had enough and back it went. If I plug directly into both units I get native resolution at 144hz. I suppose that I'll just keep looking and if anybody every makes a KVM switch with docking capability I'll take a hard look at it.
@@puffnstuff12 Weird, do you know what generation of Thunderbolt ports you have on your laptops? I still have intermittent issues with the dock disconnecting displays or having one display turn grey if I try to stream Disney+ on it.
@@retropcdurham Have you tried looking in the Lenovo forums about this dock? Its littered with people frustrated over dropping monitors. I'll just keep plugging in the two monitor cables and the power to have normal functionality.
@@puffnstuff12 I had noticed. Power cycling usually resolves it for a few days but hopefully we'll get a firmware fix in the future for it.
Do you have issues with the Thunderbolt ports on your P1 Gen 4?
I have the Lenovo ThinkVision P40w-20 monitor (Thunderbolt 4) although when I connect it to the my P1 G4 (A4000) it doesn't recognise it as a display - only a hub. Ended up using USB-C > DP 1.4 cable to get video at 5k 75Hz, oddly it works perfect on my P1 G3 (A2000). Tempted to buy the dock but worried it won't work properly.
Even had the motherboard replaced and it didn't fix it. Motherboard failed during a Firmware update gone wrong.
Hi, ware you having any issues with the display signal cutting out and wrong resolution being picked up especially using the DP ports?
no issues with connectivity so far, outside of my dogs knocking the cable out during when I set up in my front room for a while
Hi, congratulations for the video, i got one today too, one question, I cannot read it from the label of your video. Do you know the max input reported on your label? Mine says 6.35a and i’m in doubt if i can use a 230w on it..
Thank you in advance
What were the issues you were having with the old dock? I got an old Lenovo ThinkPad Hybrid USB-C with USB-A Dock back in 2020 to use with my ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 2 and had issues where the dock would just electronically disconnect (physically still connected) when connected to one of the Thunderbolt 3 ports. This only happened with a TB3 port too and only seemed to be an issue on my X1E2.
My ThinkPad USB 3.0 Pro Dock would constantly crash when plugged into my newer ThinkPads. It worked fine with my P71 and L13Y. I think it was probably a firmware issue with DisplayLink support compatibility with newer systems. So far the new dock has had zero issues so I should be good for hopefully the next few generations.
I bought the usb-c gen 2 dock 40s 2 weeks ago.. it was pain in the ass to get it working.. now, its working fine when i plugged it via my charging port.. but still cannot function if i plugged it via TB3 usbc port..
I had to do a fair bit of troubleshooting with drivers on both my P1 and my T14s to get it to work properly with both, and I still get weird glitches with the HDMI port.
Hi. I have only USB C port for charging in muy Lenovo Slim 7. Is it possible to use a USC C only cable from the dock to the laptop for charging anda data?
Normally a USB-C port will not be able to communicate with a Thunderbolt device
Why only 1 hdmi?
I need a different type of cord for my 2nd monitor?
Yea my preference would be HDMI as well but I assume it's a cost saving measure since HDMI has a royalty fee and DP does not
Will this work with a Thinkstation desktop? I didn't see it on the compatibility list. I'd like to be able to switch between my T16 and my desktop with just one usb-c cable instead of unplugging 3 monitors all the time
Good question. Does your ThinkStation have Thunderbolt ports?
@@retropcdurham just regular usb-c
@@joeb.2162 won't work unfortunately, you'll want to source a usb-c based dock that you can do that with.
The other thing that you will want to confirm is how your ThinkStation handles video passthru to USB. I had an old S30 which was gen 1 USB3.0 and it didn't pass thru any graphics from the GPU at all.
I have two of these Lenovo ThinkPad Thunderbolt 4 docks. It did not come with the big cable only... a Thunderbolt 4 cable. The light turns orange when I plug it in. But it does not register anything. It is really odd. Any thoughts. do I need special Driver. The ASUS ProArt StudioBook has two Thunderbolt 4 ports... but neither seem to work with this silly Lenovo Dock.
Try this, in the 'Start' menu, go down to Thunderbolt control center, and enable the dock.
@@gaza1881 Interesting... will look into that.
Yellow power connector not charging a ThinkBook 16 gen 2? any ideas? thanks
ThinkBooks share the same chargers with ThinkPads, so it sould work fine. If you plug the charger for the dock directly into your ThinkBook, does it work?
@@retropcdurham yes I tried it, it works. I also tried connecting the thinkbook charger to the dock. Both works fine directly but throug the dock I can't get power. Though the dock itself do get power. I'm returning it. Thanks all the same.
@@DiegoMarzorati That's definitively strange, let me know if you get a different TB4 dock instead hpw that works for you
@@retropcdurham yes, weird. And no, I'm not getting another is rather expensive and I can manage with a simple hub. I've had a bad experience. Most likely it was faulty.
Im not surprised. I have this laptop and purchased a ThinkPad USB-C Gen 2 dock 90W and no luck even if I plug in a 230W into the dock. Seems this thinkbook model has issues. My only thought is that the power delivered via the yellow power connector is below 230W? Or somehow because its an AMD processor things dont work with Thunderbolt connector? Im very frustrated with this and now need to always take out my 2nd power supply (one for dock one for laptop) to get things to work. Lenovo support was also unable to solve this for me.
Where can I buy it?
I got mine off the Lenovo website but if you have a good reseller in your area they sometimes have better pricing as well
Does the power button work on non ThinkPad laptops?
Not sure actually, I had comments from someone with a Legion laptop that had issues with the power button and also Windows giving errors about not getting enough power, so YMMV depending on what you have
Makes me think of forced obsolescence to make you upgrade!
When comparing to traditional mechanical docks it totally lines up, 3-4 generations of compatibility.
But I agree that if it's USB, it should maintain backwards compatibility forever, right? The old dock still worked fine for USB devices, but the monitor and ethernet controlled by the DisplayLink firmware just doesn't work properly.