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I’m a little surprised to see how much trouble people in this thread have had with the Cal Digit TS3.

Mine works pretty well — have used it with three Intel MacBooks in the past and now currently two different Apple Silicon MacBooks.

One of the Intel MBPs did not like it. Would reboot every time I unplugged it from the dock. I blamed that MacBook for that one, since nothing else was ever a problem. I sent every crash report to Apple, along with some choice words that my $2,500 MacBook should be able to handle connecting to a very commonly owned TB Dock. Eventually they did fix it and it stopped being an issue.

Has ended up one of the more reliable pieces of tech gear in my life, especially given the absolute mad complexity of TB3 behind the scenes.

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Same, mines worked a treat across a number of laptops using a generic cheapo 6.6ft USB4 cable over the years.
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Apple’s AMD GPU driver had issues gracefully handling hot plugging monitors via thunderbolt. It reliably panic’d every other time I plugged in my ‘19 16” machine to a thunderbolt 3 dock.
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Yeah, I've had 3 CalDigit docks (USB-C Dock, TS4 and Element 5) and they've all been bulletproof.

I will note that mine have all functioned as docks for effectively-stationary PCs, so there's basically zero cable wear happening.

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