M4 and M5 MacBook Air do two native external displays with the lid open. The Plugable TBT-UDM is the current dual-HDMI Thunderbolt 4 desk. Skip leftover DisplayLink, leftover UDZ as a four-monitor Mac, and leftover CalDigit TS5 — this Air is still 40 Gb/s and 70W fast charge.
ThinkPad P1 docks by generation: Kensington K35201NA for Gen 8 Thunderbolt 5 and 140W, Lenovo 40B00300US for the Gen 6 and Gen 7 slim-tip jack, and Belkin INC030 when the monitors need HDMI on the dock.
The iPad Pro 11-inch and 13-inch have one Thunderbolt / USB 4 port that does charging, DisplayPort, USB4 at 40 Gb/s, and USB 3 at 10 Gb/s, and supports one external display up to 6K at 60 Hz or 5K at 120 Hz.
ThinkPad P14s Gen 6 Intel and P16s Gen 5 Intel list two Thunderbolt 4 ports with USB Power Delivery and 100W or 140W USB-C adapters. A dock can supply the host charge on these USB-C models.
Surface Laptop Ultra has three USB-C ports with USB4 at 40 Gbps, one with Magnetic Connect. Microsoft says a dock should pass at least 115W to Surface. The CalDigit TS5 lists host charge up to 140W.
The current Mac mini has two front USB-C ports at USB 3 and no video, plus three rear Thunderbolt ports: Thunderbolt 4 at 40 Gb/s on M6, Thunderbolt 5 at up to 120 Gb/s on M5 Pro. A dock cable goes in a rear port.
Mac Studio with M5 Ultra can use up to eight displays, and up to four of them from one Thunderbolt port. The CalDigit TS5 is a Thunderbolt 5 dock with a host port up to 120 Gb/s.
The ProArt P16 H7607 has USB4 at 40 Gb/s and a 140W USB-C adapter. The CalDigit TS5 lists up to 140W on a USB4 host port. The 80 Gb/s mode is not this port.
A ThinkPad X1 Nano Gen 3 is twoThunderbolt 4 / USB4 40 Gbpsports with PD and DisplayPort, a headphone jack, andnothing else— no HDMI, no USB-A, no SD. The brick is65W USB-C— 45W is thin, 100W as if Nano required it is generous. That is whyX