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A stand that sits under a Mac Mini M4 and adds ports plus an SSD enclosure — lifting the machine off the desk while putting the connections you use daily on the front instead of round the back. What it does: Raises the Mac Mini M4 with a matching aluminium stand Adds front-accessible ports Built-in SSD enclosure for expandable storage Where it fits in a school: a media or design workstation where a Mac Mini is the fixed machine and students plug in drives and cards constantly. Reaching behind the unit twenty times a day is the problem this solves. Check your model. This is sized for the M4 generation Mac Mini, which is a different shape from earlier models — for those, see the Stand and Hub for Mac Mini and Mac Studio. Purchase orders accepted on school accounts.

A Thunderbolt 5 dock with a built-in SSD enclosure — the top of the Satechi range, and genuinely specialist equipment. Thunderbolt 5 carries far more bandwidth than USB-C, which matters when a workstation drives multiple high-resolution displays and moves large video files at the same time. What it does: Thunderbolt 5 connection to the host machine Built-in SSD enclosure for fast working storage Full desktop dock port selection Be clear about whether you need this. For a teacher laptop and a classroom display, a $100 USB-C multiport adapter does the job. Thunderbolt 5 earns its price in a video editing suite, a design lab or a media production room — and only on a machine that supports Thunderbolt in the first place. Check the laptop before ordering. Purchase orders accepted on school accounts — ask us for a quote on multiple units.

A pocket-sized enclosure that turns a bare NVMe SSD into a fast portable drive over USB-C. For media and IT work, this is how you get a fast working drive for a fraction of the price of a finished portable SSD. What it does: Takes an M.2 NVMe SSD (sold separately) Connects over USB-C Compact aluminium body Where it earns its place: video editing scratch drives, imaging and reimaging school laptops, and student media projects where a spinning USB stick is too slow. Also a way to reuse SSDs pulled from retired machines. Purchase orders accepted on school accounts.