Belkin upgrades Thunderbolt Express Dock to include Esata, USB 3.0

[nst7]

Belkin had previously announced their Express Dock, which is a hub that connects by Thunderbolt and includes several hookups which included firewire, ethernet, basically what you get on the Apple Thunderbolt Display, minus the display. It was announced that it would be $299.

Now they have upgraded the design and specs, and it now includes an Esata port, plus 3 USB 3.0 ports, in addition to a Firewire 800 port, headphone and mic jacks, and a second Thunderbolt port for daisy chaining.

The price will now be $399, and it's still planned to be released in September. This could be tremendously useful. Info is here:

http://www.belkin.com/thunderbolt/

[getz76]

Very cool. Nice that they have a daisy-chain port in there; can't understand why some manufacturers forgo the obvious in that.