Dell Ultra HD Docking Station USB 3.0

Dell Ultra HD Docking Station USB 3.0

$100 at the mothership. :+1:

Do notice that it will not charge your laptop.

On the mothership it lists the usb cable, without specifying its easy to deduce that it will be a usb-a [3.0] cable.used to connect tonthe laptop. Rather than modern usb-3

As previously mentioned this means no power.
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Has some good potential, since I have so many monitors available. Looking far enough ahead, I’m a bit concerned for options if/when THIS device dies, after I get so comfortable with the configuration… buying trouble, too far down the road to see.

Here’s a link to the setup manual.

Also, this dock uses DisplayLink software (like many of Dell’s docks)… which does work, but needs to be kept up-to-date, or it starts having random issues. I’ve purchased a few different docks for laptops around the office, and I’ve never been a fan of the ones that use the DisplayLink drivers.

Good (bad, actually) to know…

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So i actually use one of these regularly with a Surface Pro 5 (stop laughing!) and IME, if you’re aware of its limitations and not terribly concerned about them, then it’s… decent. Ish. The biggest issue that i run into regularly is that the dock stops communicating with my device, ie the display stops updating, should probably check for a driver update lol, and as a result I’m semi regularly unplugging it from the USB port and then plugging it back in. Other than that, it’s been doing what i want it to do (which is give me an hdmi output and extra USB ports) ever since i installed the drivers and started using it. Since the price (free) was right, i really don’t have much to complain about. It gets the job done and was a lot easier to locate than an old Surface Pro docking station. Plus no need for mini display port adapters. So I’ve got that going for me.

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