If your job or your dream setup requires connecting five external monitors to your Mac, you need Plugable’s UD-7400PD. It supports up to four 4K displays and one 8K display… even on MacBooks that are supposed to be limited to one external screen. No rival dock can match that.
As a bonus, the dock adds USB-A ports, an Ethernet port and more.
Any Mac can have 5 external screens with Plugable UD-7400PD
Studies show external screens increase productivity, and some people like to segment the different aspects of their work/personal life onto separate displays. But that usually means one external monitor, or maybe two or three. The Plugable UD-7400PD is for anyone who scoffs at those paltry numbers. It comes with two HDMI ports and three DisplayLink-enabled USB-C ports to handle five screens at once.
Install a DisplayLink driver on a Mac running macOS 11 or later to use all five. And that includes computers that are otherwise limited to far fewer. Plug the dock into a Thunderbolt port, and “even base M1, M2, M3, M4 Macs can connect 5 4K displays,” promises Plugable.
It supports a range of screen configurations, including setups with up to four screens at up to 4K at 60Hz plus one additional screen at up to 8K at 30Hz. Alternatively, it can handle three screens at 8K at 30Hz.
But wait — there’s more. The front of the UD-7400PD includes a 10Gbps USB-C port with 30W charging, two 10Gbps USB-A ports (one with BC 1.2 charging), and a combo TRRS audio jack. The back sports the five ports for external screens plus a 2.5Gbps Ethernet port and more.
The peripheral also includes Plugable’s DockTag, a web-based solution designed for faster resolution of IT problems through improved remote support and user self-diagnosis.
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Price & availability
After first being demoed at CES 25 in January, the Plugable UD-7400PD premiered Tuesday.
It ordinarily sells for $279.95, but there’s a 20% launch discount, dropping the cost by $55.99.
Buy it from: Amazon
The UD-7400PD Plugable docking station drives up to 5 high-res displays (3x 8K, or 1x 8K + 4x 4K), with up to 140W laptop charging + 30W device charging, 2.5Gbps Ethernet, USB and USB-C ports.
It’s what multitasking would look like if multitasking multitasked.
