PexarBolt Ultra is a Thunderbolt 5 dock with a screen and a CFexpress slot

Docks are usually the least interesting object on a desk — a black box you plug things into and then forget about until something stops working. Pexar’s PexarBolt Ultra takes a different view: it has a five-inch touchscreen on the front showing you exactly what every port is doing. For a photographer whose ingest routine involves cards, drives, a NAS and a laptop all fighting over bandwidth, that is more useful than it sounds. Details are on the official PexarBolt Ultra page. The card readers are the headline for photographers Most Thunderbolt docks treat card readers as an afterthought, if they include them at all. The PexarBolt Ultra has CFexpress Type B, SD 4.0 and microSD 4.0 slots built in, which between them cover nearly every camera you are likely to own — mirrorless bodies, cinema cameras, drones and action cameras. Better still, there is an internal M.2 NVMe SSD...