Plugable doesn’t want PC owners to find its awesome $140 dock deal

Don’t you always feel a little thrill of victory when you discover an offer you weren’t supposed to know about? In this case, Plugable is offering a 41% Black Friday deal on its Thunderbolt 4 laptop dock… which attempts to avoid the Windows PC market.

What’s weird about this awesome $140 Amazon deal is that it’s pitched to Mac snobs, but this “Plug-in Thunderbolt 4 Dock for MacBook Air and Pro M4” is not exclusively designed for Macs. It’s a plug-and-play Thunderbolt 4 dock that works just as well on your Windows PC: no special software or drivers required!

Thunderbolt 4 docks are still the place to be for a laptop dock in 2025 and 2026. Yes, Thunderbolt 5 docks are rolling out, but unless you have a laptop that supports it (and those laptops tend to be the most expensive high-end gaming laptops of 2025), the cheaper Thunderbolt 4 spec is what you want. (I’ve been reviewing the best Thunderbolt docks for several years now.) Plugable’s discounted TBT-UDM laptop dock is one of the least expensive docks in the category, even among my list of the best Black Friday laptop dock deals.

Plugable has an excellent reputation, alongside brands like Kensington. This dock has a pair of HDMI display ports, capable of 4K output at 60Hz each. The only customers who should ignore this are high-end gamers. While this dock supports lower resolutions at high refresh rates, it doesn’t have the DisplayPort output that gamers typically prefer. On the other hand, virtually every monitor on the planet has HDMI, which this dock supports.

This docking station has all the necessities: four USB-A ports for existing devices like printers, keyboards, and mice; an additional USB-C/Thunderbolt 4 port for daisy-chaining a device or charging a smartphone; SD/microSD inputs and 3.5mm headphone jack. It also delivers 100W of power to your laptop, which should be enough for anything but a gaming laptop.

Yes, Plugable’s dock has the boring “space gray” colorway that screams “Mac” instead of the sexier black or silver that characterizes the PC market. Otherwise, this is a great Windows laptop dock that’s already having a terrific Black Friday sale.

Plugable’s Thunderbolt 4 dock is a 41% off Black Friday deal