The Beelink Mate Pro - Tao of Mac

Rui Carmo

Tao of Mac

Aug 1st 2026 · 7 min read

&middot;<br>#beelink #docks #mate pro #storage #thunderbolt #usb4

The Beelink Mate Pro

Even though I already have probably too many desks (my main work desk, a standing desk that has probably been improvised for far too long, and an occasional tactical take-over of our dining table), I spend around a third of my working hours on a laptop of some kind.

There are also three more people in the house, so the plight of the semi-nomadic laptop user who needs a quick, unobtrusive way to recharge while working or a temporary makeshift desk has become somewhat of a family thing, which in turn means I’ve been casually looking for a simple, functional, non-eyesore laptop dock for a while.

The Mate Pro in action, charging my earbuds.

That I ended up finding something that can act as a high-speed backup drive, HDMI dock and conference speaker I could take on vacation was, as Bob Ross would put it, just a happy accident.

Disclaimer: Beelink sent me a Mate Pro free of charge, and, as usual, this review follows my review policy.

In The Box

Opening the box yielded a nice surprise–a compact carrying case with the Mate Pro, power, HDMI and USB-C PD cables neatly stowed, which I was totally not expecting. This makes it great not just for our (very) occasional weekend/countryside jaunts, but also for tidily putting it away when not in use:

A rather tidy package.

The box itself is just… cute and compact (it’s a roughly one-litre cube, measuring 99×99×98.3mm), and unlike most Thunderbolt docks I’ve looked at, it is most definitely not a metallic dark eyesore. If you put away the cables and leave it on a table or desk just plugged into power, nobody in the family will object to how it looks, which is certainly a plus for something that is meant to be a desktop “hub”.

Hardware

The port selection is pretty comprehensive–besides the front USB-C (USB4v2) and USB-A ports, the back has, under its built-in speaker:

IEC 60320 C8 240V connector, which goes into the built-in 140W power supply

HDMI 2.0 (full-sized) that is exposed to the host via DisplayPort over USB-C

USB-A

2.5GbE Ethernet port (using a Realtek chipset)

USB-C (USB4v2), rated for 96W PD fast charging

Additionally, the Mate Pro provides Bluetooth 6.0 and a 4-mic array for conference calls. The microphones sit next to a set of touch controls for volume, mute and media playback on the top:

The Mate Pro speaker grille and touch controls

Local USB-C Breakdown

Of course, the first thing I did was try to divine how the internals worked with a Linux machine. The NVMe Thunderbolt connection wasn’t visible since I had no drives installed at the time, but under Linux the dock enumerates as separate USB 2.0 and SuperSpeed branches:

Mate Pro USB device topology, showing its USB 2.0 and USB 3.x branches

Digging a little further gave me a pretty good idea of the components used:

Path<br>Device ID<br>Descriptor<br>Function

1-6<br>1d5c:5801<br>Fresco Logic, Inc. USB2.0 Hub<br>USB 2.0 side of USB-A/audio/control expansion

1-6.2<br>3654:4a55<br>Jieli Technology USB Composite Device<br>Built-in speaker, microphone path and top controls, with stereo playback at 44.1/48/96kHz and mono capture at 16/44.1/48kHz.

1-6.3<br>05e3:0610<br>GenesysLogic USB2.1 Hub<br>Additional USB 2.0 downstream hub path, with power management

1-6.4<br>8087:0a02<br>AZW USB4V2 Docking Station<br>USB4/USB-C billboard and vendor control function, using an Intel chipset

2-1<br>8087:5787<br>Intel Corporation USB3 HUB<br>SuperSpeed/USB3 side of dock expansion, also with power management

2-1.4<br>05e3:0625<br>GenesysLogic USB3.2 Hub<br>Downstream USB3 hub path feeding high-speed devices

2-1.4.1<br>0bda:8156<br>Realtek USB 10/100/1G/2.5G LAN<br>2.5GbE RJ45 port

Video Output

The DP-to-HDMI bridge and NVMe switch/bridge hardware wasn’t visible, but after plugging in a monitor Linux saw DRM connector DP-1, not HDMI-A-*, which confirms this as a DisplayPort over USB-C connection:

Intel Alder Lake-N iGPU / i915<br>└─ USB-C DisplayPort path, DRM connector DP-1<br>└─ dock DP-to-HDMI bridge/retimer path, exact chip not exposed over USB<br>└─ HDMI sink EDID: PNP(HJW) MACROSILICON, product 0x1836

The great thing about this is that the connection is completely transparent, so besides seeing your monitor’s EDIDs you can also see its native advertised HDMI modes–I fooled it with a 4K capture dongle, and got exactly what I expected:

Mode class<br>Advertised modes

Current/preferred<br>1280×720 @ 60Hz

1080p<br>1920×1080 @ 50/59.94/60Hz

1080i<br>1920×1080 interlaced @ 50/60Hz

4K UHD<br>3840×2160 @ 23.976/24/25/29.97/30/50/59.94/60Hz

DCI 4K<br>4096×2160 @ 23.976/24/25/29.97/30/50/59.94/60Hz

PC modes<br>1600×1200, 1680×1050, 1440×900, 1400×1050, 1366×768, 1360×768, 1280×1024, 1280×960, 1280×800, 1280×768, 1024×768, 800×600, 640×480

There should be zero issues driving a 4K@60Hz display–I ended up testing less demanding ones (more on that later), but everything worked when plugged in to all my machines, including...