Where might I find or commission a pre-made or custom-order a rather fully featured port-expansion hub or dock-like accessory designed to nest neatly underneath a 15-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar and Touch ID like the one I plan to order soon? Specifically, I'm looking for a device with a complement of ports and media slots similar, but not identical, to that found on Sonnet's Echo 15+ Thunderbolt 2 Dock, but which interfaces with the aforementioned laptop using Thunderbolt 3 rather than its predecessor. Here are the kinds of connectors and slots I would like to have on such a device:
- FireWire 400
- FireWire 800
- Mini DisplayPort/Thunderbolt 1 and 2
- USB 3.1 Gen. 2 Type C/Thunderbolt 3 passthrough
- USB 3.1 Gen. 2 Type A
- Gigabit Ethernet
- SDSC/-HC/-XC card reader
- A slot-loading optical drive capable of reading and writing to and from the following formats (basically, the same list of formats as the Sonnet dock I mentioned earlier:)
- Bluray Disc (variants:
- single- and double-layer BD-R
- triple- and quadruple-layer BD-R XL
- single- and double-layer BD-RE
- triple- and quadruple-layer BD-RE XL
- BD-ROM)
- DVD (variants:
- DVD-RAM
- single- and double-layer DVD±R
- DVD±RW
- DVD-ROM)
- CD (variants:
- CD-R
- CD-RW
- CD-ROM)
- Bluray Disc (variants:
The optical drive should support booting from discs as well, as one would probably expect. In addition, I wouldn't mind also having access to the following additional functionality in such a device:
- An internal battery bank for battery lifetime extension
- Space for additional solid-state storage
Does anybody know what kind of place might supply or custom-build such a product to or for me?
