Ugreen's Thunderbolt 5 dock gives Mac mini the ports it was born without
Mac mini owners have always had to live with a short port list — Ugreen's new RevoDok MaxiDok 10-in-1 Thunderbolt 5 dock aims to fix that without cluttering your desk. The accessory is designed to sit directly beneath the Mac mini M4, matching its aluminum finish and square footprint. It goes on general sale via Amazon.co.uk from March 24, 2026, priced at £249.99 for the 10-in-1 model, with a larger 17-in-1 flagship at £419.99.
The ports
The dock packs a serious amount of I/O into that Mac mini-sized chassis. Front and back together provide two Thunderbolt 5 ports, three USB-A 3.2 ports, an SD 4.0 card slot, a DisplayPort 2.1 output (capable of 8K at 60 Hz), and a USB-C port with up to 65W Power Delivery for charging a laptop alongside your Mac. The built-in M.2 NVMe slot accepts drives in 2230, 2242, 2260, and 2280 sizes with B+M Key and M Key compatibility — so you can drop in almost any standard NVMe SSD.
Thunderbolt 5 brings real bandwidth headroom: 80 Gbps bidirectional, jumping to 120 Gbps in Bandwidth Boost mode for unidirectional transfers. That's roughly three times the throughput of most external drives on the market today, which matters if you're editing high-resolution video or working with large RAW files directly off an external disk.
The value case
The price undercuts the main competition by a meaningful margin. The OWC Thunderbolt 5 Dock runs around £329 and CalDigit's TS5 is closer to £369 — the Ugreen comes in £80–£120 cheaper while matching or exceeding both on port count and adding the integrated SSD bay, which neither rival includes at this price.
Ports and connectors on the Ugreen Thunderbolt 5 dock. Image: Ugreen
A Mac mini-specific variant — shaped to sit flush under the computer — is scheduled for late April or early May 2026, per the official Ugreen PR; pricing for that model hasn't been confirmed yet. The standard 10-in-1 and 17-in-1 docks are available now. If you're running a Mac mini as a proper workstation rather than a casual desktop, the price-to-port ratio here is hard to argue with — especially compared to what Apple charges for extra storage at the configuration stage.