With its quality aluminum construction and black top, the OWC Thunderbolt 2 dock size, form and function fits in very nicely to the Zen of my multi-computer and dual monitor setup, greatly minimizing the number of cables connecting to my MacBook Pro. Though when I connected a DisplayPort cable from the dock to one monitor and the HDMI to the other display everything went wonky and I had to power cycle my MBPro and the OWC dock. What happens (in most cases depending on your hardware) is that they mirror each other versus expanding your screen real estate. You can connect one monitor via DP or HDMI but that is it.
Though I do have one caveat with this or any other Thunderbolt dock I have heard about, to truly daisy-chain monitors all but the last must have Thunderbolt ports. While they look the same (and most of you might know this), DisplayPorts do not get the job done in regards to connecting multiple monitors to OSX computers. Getting everything operational and talking to my MacBook required downloading a single driver that enabled all the ports and peripherals to work as expected. The dock’s flattop and always-on, 1.5A USB side ports makes for an ideal set up to charge your smartphone.
The wired ethernet connection thru the Thunderbolt 2 dock does increase the download speed nearly two fold as compared to WiFi. The Thunderbolt 2 Dock has 5 x powered USB 3.0 ports for connecting your USB peripherals. The three “regular” USB 3.0 ports on the back are engineered to connect and power your hard drives, SSDs, or optical drives but you can also plug in your printer, scanner, etc into them as well. You can really only see these lights as a reflection off of the surface it is sitting on. The left indicates when the Thunderbolt port is connected (green LED) to a computer while the right one shows when the dock is powered on (blue LED). The front of the dock has two LEDs indicator lights built into the base of the dock. The OWC Thunderbolt 2 Dock is made from high grade aluminum and dense jet-black plastic.
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