I had two desk places at home: one smaller “overflow” desk on the first floor (north side) where guests can temporarily work and which my better half and me use during very hot days, and the main desk in my office at the top floor (my better half has their own on the same floor) for autumn through start of summer.
The smaller desk has a two 30-inch WQXGA (2560 * 1600) monitor setup (of which one – a trusty Dell 3008WFP supports all my retro hardware as it has so many display connections ¹, the other a Iiyama ProLite XB3070WQS with better CCFL but less connections ²)
Since I didn’t want to have to plug in many connectors at once in my Apple Silicon based M1 Max powered MacBook Pro, I needed a dock.
The cool thing: the dock doesn’t need additional drivers, like the DisplayLink ones mentioned below, on my MacBook model.
These were the contenders:
