A Reddit user blew me away with a custom-made dual monitor stand that looks like it's from the bridge of the Nostromo.

A quirky new dock for Mac Mini M4 revives classic Macintosh design, but its price and practicality may be an issue.

Anker This monitor stand elevates ... your laptop into the hub. It’ll charge the computer and give you three extra USB-C ports for connecting peripherals. It’s small and easy to pack, too ...

The hub is simply placed under the M4 Mac mini and connected to one of the rear Thunderbolt sockets using the short USB-C cable (USB 3.2 Gen2 with 10Gbps). The Thunderbolt socket used in this way ...

A more sophisticated option is a monitor stand that also doubles up as an input hub with easy-to-access USB ports and even an HDMI passthrough – you’ll also make some extra space by getting ...

Some M4 Mac mini owners ... attached via USB-C disconnected when an "I/O heavy" task was performed, even when directly connected. Others raised their problems again, with hubs not working with ...

Luckily, monitor manufacturers understand this, and many come with enough ports to be considered a USB hub — or maybe even a USB dock — in and of themselves. Having lots of USB ports gives you ...

Convenient, with a simple set-up, a USB-C monitor can help you cut down on your expenses, since you won’t have to buy an adapter or docking hub for your ... LED (OLED) or Mini-LED technology ...

USB hubs enable you to attach multiple devices, such as printers, hard drives and card readers, to a single computer. However, the USB hub only makes the devices available to one computer at a time.

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