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I think that the Core (one HDMI, one DisplayPort) will fit most users the best, followed by the ‘s single DisplayPort. (An upstream Thunderbolt port requires a display dongle.) The includes two DisplayPort ports, but Belkin’s had some quality-control issues here on one of the ports — you might get a lemon, you might not. The is an interesting device — both the “old version” and the new version are on steep discounts. (Kensington sells it for $199.99, so the $66.99 is much more than 6% off.) It does run hot, according to reports, which is why it’s well down my list for a reason. I haven’t tested this device personally. The is even cheaper, at $49.95. Again, users complain that it runs very hot, however. The works for both Macs and Windows PCs. (Our friends at Macworld loved it per .) This CalDigit dock is also a good choice if you’re looking for a more full-featured dock, but it’s definitely pricier. That’s also the reason I’ve included the , which has a good reputation even if I haven’t reviewed it. Ditto for the . If you’ve been following our lists of deals, some of these are familiar: They’re solid docks that keep going on sale. And some of the discounts are somewhat deceptive. Last year, the (a perfectly good travel dock, ) was being sold for $100 on a “50 percent discount.” This year, it’s being sold for $69.99 at Walmart (and ). At least at Walmart, the $69.99 price tag is now the “regular price,” not a discount. Still, it’s a steal! Ditto for the , which was $131 last year but now $68.75 at Amazon. We’ve also reviewed quite a few Thunderbolt docking stations in our list of the . It’s never a bad idea to skim down that list and see if there’s a price that appeals to you. Black Friday: The best PC deals around Check out our roundups for the best PC-related deals in a wide variety of categories! FAQ Officially, this year’s Black Friday takes place on Friday, Nov. 29, 2024. Cyber Monday is the following Monday, or Dec. 2, 2024. Early Black Friday sales have already begun at several retailers, though sales should ramp up as Black Friday nears. Retailers haven’t been shy about using early sales to unload inventory before the Black Friday craziness begins. Over the years, I’ve found that certain retailers simply outdo others in specific product categories. I routinely search sites like Newegg, B&H, Target, and Walmart, but Amazon typically has the best collection of deals on docking stations of all stripes, including Thunderbolt docks. Premium Thunderbolt docks usually retail for about $220 to $270 or so, depending upon the features. I usually hope for $200 or less. In 2024, you benefit from one key trend: Thunderbolt 3 and Thunderbolt 4 are roughly the same in terms of throughput and features, but retailers keeping old hardware on the shelves. It’s likely that you’ll still see substantial sales on older Thunderbolt 3 hardware, with lesser discounts applied to Thunderbolt 4 options. I’m already seeing evidence of that. The , which has been one of my favorite Thunderbolt 3 docks for years, is being discontinued in favor of the , the Thunderbolt 4 version. With Thunderbolt 3 hardware on its way out — and very similar to Thunderbolt 4 in what it can do — you should expect additional discounts on older TB3 hardware. Thunderbolt 5 is just barely beginning to roll out. You won’t see any deals there. Consult your laptop’s manual. A Thunderbolt port be labeled with a small lightning-bolt logo, but that icon can sometimes be used to signal that the port can be used for charging, too. If nothing else, a USB-C dongle/hub will always work with a USB-C port. USB ports have been around for years. USB-C (the oval-shaped port) replaced USB-A (the rectangular port) because USB-C was more versatile, with higher speeds and a reversible port connector. USB-C ports can be rated for either 5Gbps or 10Gbps, just like a normal USB-A port. But some USB-C ports connect to a Thunderbolt chip inside your laptop, and this allows the port to run at a higher 40Gbps speed. Physically, the connector looks exactly the same. It’s just what it can do that’s different. is slowly entering the market, but with only one or two docks and a tiny number of laptops right now. You won’t see any sales on Thunderbolt 5 docks during the 2024 holiday season. Speed and features. A USB-C hub connects to a single 4K (or 1080p) display and provides a mix of ports: USB-A, SD card slots, and so on. You can usually plug your laptop’s USB-C power cable (if it uses one) right into it. A Thunderbolt dock supplies even more bandwidth for more ports. There are two key differences: It has enough bandwidth to drive a pair of 4K displays, and many docks come with their own power supply that can charge your laptop as well as your phone. All that occurs via the Thunderbolt cable that connects your laptop to the dock. Yes and no. Thunderbolt 3, Thunderbolt 4, and USB 4 all run at 40Gbps across the same connector. USB 4 is identical to Thunderbolt 4. But if your laptop runs USB 4, it won’t “understand” Thunderbolt 3 protocols. USB 4 laptops, which are still rare, have AMD Ryzen chips inside. Physically, they use the same USB-C cable. Functionally, they’re the same, and run at the same 40Gbps throughput. Thunderbolt 4 was released almost as a patch to Thunderbolt 3, ensuring that everything worked properly. If your laptop has Thunderbolt, you should be able to buy either a Thunderbolt 3 or Thunderbolt 4 dock without any problems. Since Thunderbolt 3 is being phased out, you’ll probably find more discounts on the older Thunderbolt 3 hardware. (For all the gory details, see my roundup of the .) Possibly. Historically, the back of a desktop has been chock-full of I/O ports, especially DIY models that you build yourself. Desktops usually have extra room for internal SSDs, SD cards, and so on. However, if your desktop lacks these things, and if it includes an external Thunderbolt port, you can always add these additional components externally via Thunderbolt. Read the user reviews closely. While Macs adopted Thunderbolt first, some of the Apple M1 silicon couldn’t keep up with Intel Thunderbolt controllers used by Windows PCs, and the Apple macOS experience suffered as a result. If a Windows user complains, pay attention; otherwise, you can dismiss them. Mark has written for PCWorld for the last decade, with 30 years of experience covering technology. He has authored over 3,500 articles for PCWorld alone, covering PC microprocessors, peripherals, and Microsoft Windows, among other topics. Mark has written for publications including PC Magazine, Byte, eWEEK, Popular Science and Electronic Buyers' News, where he shared a Jesse H. Neal Award for breaking news. He recently handed over a collection of several dozen Thunderbolt docks and USB-C hubs because his office simply has no more room.

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Some business owners have started stockpiling popular products - specifically tequila, which can be made only in Mexico - and taking other actions to help stave off potential price hikes. However, industry leaders and analysts say consumers would still have to pay more in the end. "A lot of those companies, especially the smaller ones, don't have much choice except to pass those costs along," said Dave Williams, president of Bump Williams Consulting, which provides consulting and analytics services to the alcoholic beverage industry. He added: "The unfortunate reality is that would trickle down." The same is likely true for even the biggest companies in the business. Constellation Brands , which imports Modelo and Corona beer as well as Casa Noble tequila from Mexico, could see its costs leap 16% under Trump's proposedtariff and would likely have to raise prices by about 4.5%, Chris Carey, a Wells Fargo equity analyst, wrote in a note issued Tuesday. At this stage, the tariffs are technically still just talk, with plenty of caveats and scenarios strewn about. But if large tariffs are levied against two of America's top trading partners, it would be a blow to a US industry that's still nursing its hangovers from recent trade wars, a pandemic, supply chain disruptions and a global battle against inflation, Williams said. "That's the whole point of negotiations like this is you need something to start the conversation or get the ball rolling," he said. "The hope is that it just comes down to not the worst-case scenario but something that everyone can be better walking away from. But, at the same time, you do need to prepare and start thinking about what to do should this become a reality." At Meximodo, a popular Mexican restaurant and tequila bar in Metuchen, New Jersey, those arrangements are already underway. Meximodo, which opened last year, holds the Guinness World Records title for most varieties of agave spirits: Its "library" of tequila, mezcal and agave-based spirit is 1,033 bottles strong. For a business that trades heavily in tequila and serves up authentic dishes featuring distinctive ingredients from Mexico, a 25% tariff could be a significant burden. But Meximodo has arelatively large footprint at 7,000 square feet and is one of six restaurants operated under Le Malt Hospitality Group, which is taking steps to limit price hikes, TJ Pingitore, Le Malt's senior vice president for North America, told CNN. Le Malt has leaned heavily into technology to improve the efficiency of inventory, operations, accounting, sourcing ingredients and portioning, he said. "As we tighten more and more in terms of how much we control, this really all plays in at the bottom-line level," Pingitore said. "So, if we do experience a 20% or 30% type of tariff, the end customer might only experience a very small portion of that." The company is also implementing another precautionary strategy, one that's less technical: loading up. Its Meximodo Organic Blanco Tequila brand is set to launch in just weeks. Le Malt doesn't know if the tariffs are coming,"but 25% tariffs will definitely affect our pricing coming into the port of New York," Saurabh Abrol, the company's founder and chief executive, told CNN. So, just in case, Abrol and his team this week tripled the order from 12,000 to 36,000 bottles. "We didn't want to take a chance," he said. Earlier this year, Mexico supplanted China as the top exporter of products to the United States. While cars, oil and computer chips are among the top products imported by the US from its neighbor to the south, beer and alcohol have quickly risen through the ranks in recent years. In 2023, the US imported $5.69 billion of beer and $4.81 billion of alcohol from Mexico, according to International Trade Administration data. When combined, the two categories were the 10th-biggest import from Mexico last year and mark a sharp 126% increase from 2017, International Trade Administration data shows. From the Canadian side, the US imported $543 billion of alcohol last year, including $200 million of whiskey, according to the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States. But it's not just the increasingly popular imports that are at risk, said Chris Swonger, president and CEO of the Distilled Spirits Council. "When tariffs might be imposed on imported spirits, typically, the natural reaction is the other government will impose a tariff on a like-minded product," Swonger said. In 2023, Canada ranked as the second-largest export market and Mexico was the third-largest for American spirits, according to the Distilled Spirits Council. And there are cases where even unrelated tariffs can have negative consequences. Swonger noted how the European Union in 2018 imposed a 25% retaliatory tariff on American whiskey in response to US tariffs on steel and aluminum. As a result, whiskey exports to the EU sunk 20% between 2018 and 2021. After the retaliatory tariffs were suspended, whiskey exports surgedfrom $440 million to a record high of $2.2 billion in 2023, according to the Distilled Spirits Council. Even if certain products are excluded, some tariff actions could affect US beer and spirits businesses, especially smaller operations, said Katie Marisic, senior director of federal affairs at the Brewers Association, a trade association for small and independent craft brewers. "There are more than 9,900 small and independent breweries; we create almost 190,000 jobs directly; (craft beer is) an American-made product," she told CNN. "It can't be made anywhere else, but that doesn't fully insulate us from those tariffs." Costs could suddenly spike for key ingredients such as Canadian malted barley and materials such as sheet aluminum, Marisic said. In 2018, the Trump administration's tariffs on steel and aluminum did result in prices climbing for the material behind craft beer's critical vessel, she said. "Breweries are innovative, but of course adaption comes with difficulties," she said. The-CNN-Wire TM & © 2024 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.Saying the federal government and the military know the origin of the drones that are confounding residents from New Jersey, New York, and the Philadelphia suburbs, President-elect Donald Trump asserted on Monday that U.S. leaders won’t comment because ”for some reason, they want to keep people in suspense.” Trump made his remarks during a news conference at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., just 36 days before he returns to the Oval Office. He offered no proof of his statements, nor did he provide an explanation as to why President Joe Biden and the Pentagon would keep Americans in the dark about the nighttime flying objects that have puzzled and worried people watching them swoop and hover overhead. “Look, the government knows what is happening. Look, our military knows where they took off from. If it’s a garage, they can go right into that garage,” Trump said. “I think they’re better off saying what it is,” he said, adding that he’s canceling a planned trip to his club in New Jersey because the drones are “very close to Bedminster.” Asked if he’d received an intelligence briefing on the drones, Trump responded, “I don’t want to comment on that.” He also concluded, “I can’t imagine it’s the enemy.” On Sunday, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told ABC anchor George Stephanopoulos in an interview, “There’s no question people are seeing drones.” Mayorkas added, “I want to assure the American public that we in the federal government have deployed additional resources, personnel, technology to assist the New Jersey State Police in addressing the drone sightings. ... I want to assure the American public that we are on it.” Prior to Mayorkas’ appearance, federal officials had said the drones were possibly manned aircraft and “inaccurate sightings.” On Monday, U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, a Republican who represents Bucks County, demanded that Mayorkas deploy drone-tracking detection systems “to understand the flight patterns and security risk posed” by the drones, which “present serious security concerns that need to be addressed immediately.” In addition, Fitzpatrick asked for an immediate vote on a bill he’s cosponsoring known as the Safeguarding the Homeland from the Threats Posed by Unmanned Aircraft Systems Act. It calls for enhancing the federal government’s ability to protect Americans from the risks associated with unmanned aircraft systems. ©2024 The Philadelphia Inquirer, LLC. Visit at inquirer.com . Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

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