Laptop Docking Station, 13-in-1 USB-C Docking Station, Triple Display with 2xHDMI and 1xDP, 10 Gbps USB-C and 5 Gbps USB-A Data, Ethernet, Audio, SD, 85W Charging for Dell, HP, Lenovo and More

FINALLY! I have a lenovo laptop for work. I have a different lenovo laptop for personal use. My old dock was a thunderbolt 3 and with the latest teams update on my work laptop my audio would cut out when I could screen share on teams. I also noticed suddenly the keyboard and mouse got wonky on registering activity. well turns out my old doc was just dying. that's all there was to it. so I bought an expensive $$$$$ lenovo universal dock. and then all of a sudden the 2nd monitor would not display no matter WHICH laptop was plugged in. Updated drivers. Updated firmware. Power cycled. Nope. Returned. Bought another off brand dock. Monitor would work with my personal lenovo laptop but not with my work laptop. WTF am I going insane here? What happened to plug and play. Returned. Bought another off brand and now the speakerphone for conference didn't work. Bought a new conference speaker phone (which I was going to do anyways) but it still didn't work and it wouldn't charge if I hot plugged in. Returned. Bought this dock. FINALLY EVERYTHING WORKS! NO ONE BREATHE! Although admittedly now the SD card is stuck in the SD card slot.. and I fear I may need a pair of pliers later to resolve that issue.. so maybe the SD slot is not okay. It's 135w power supply that comes with the dock (nice for the price!) the USB Ports all work and there is one on the front for your keyboard/mouse - the rest are on the back. it's quiet. Anker is good about not having whining USB ports. So if you're one of those that thinks you have tenitus all the time because your electronics whine... you'll appreciate that their USB ports do not. HDMI port works!!!!!! So if you're using an old school cheap a$$ monitor that doesn't have Display Port Tech, you're good still. Power button is a nice touch because now you can power off the dock which will turn the external display off and any additional devices that have lights will turn off also.. so if you're home office is in your bedroom, this is a value add for you. It is compact enough to travel with but it's more block or brick style than slim pocket style. Rubber slip pad on the bottom is a nice touch to keep the power cord from pulling it off the back of your desk when you're not looking. Ethernet port also works Oh and my USB Hub extension that's plugged into the dock also seems to be working just fine although it has it's own external power supply so if you're daisy chaining just keep in mind you may need more than one power supply here.

I have had no issues running this with my work laptop HP Laptop running Windows 10 and my Dell Inspiron 17 running Ubuntu 20.10/Windows 10. Both laptops charge, and all ports seem to work well. In general, the worst part of the USB-C format is the confusing amount of different laptops that seem to implement it in different ways. Not this product's fault; as I said, it works well with Dell and HP while my HP Laptop dock runs with both laptops, but under Ubuntu or Windows 10 on my Dell, it falls short. The HP Dock is a Thunderbolt dock, and my Dell is a Display port marked with a DP; the DP Port on my Dell does charge and allows all ports to work with this dock. I mention it because USB-C gets confusing, and mileage may vary depending on the laptop itself. My Hp is marked as Thunderbolt, and my Dell as Display Port, and this product runs wonderfully with both. I found I could get a 4k Display using the DP port on the back of the dock in Ubuntu, but I found it a little problem some and instead switched to using the two HDMI ports instead. Sometimes 4k would flicker, but that can be my older KVM Switch (1080P KVM). I don't mind the two 1080p screens as the dock makes it so easy to switch computers. I wonder why the HDMI port only seems to pump out 1080P and the display port 4k from my experience. Still, my HP dock didn't do 4k at all, so this dock outperformed it. I have even booted my Dell and HP Laptops with a live USB of MX Linux, and with no configuration, it worked. I just changed the display settings a bit. So to sum it up. 1) Easy to use - NO Drivers to install! 2) Works across Windows and Linux. 3) Affordable and better than my work HP Thunderbolt dock. 4) Works with USB-C marked PD or Thunderbolt. Finally, I would like to say the PD port can get confusing another port format for USB-C. At first, I thought it did not work as I plugged in USB-C devices, and it was not recognized. Then I upgraded to a new Samsung phone with USB-C PD charging support, and it charged and was recognized from the PD port on the dock. So the device has to support USB-C PD. As I said, USB-C is confusing. Now, what are you waiting for? Buy this best Dock on Amazon; it is excellent for Windows and, more importantly, great with Linux. If you have Thunderbolt, the big thing you get from a Thunderbolt dock is the quicker data transfer speeds, but you need to know your laptop supports it. For me, I don't care about my work laptop having maximum data transfer speed. As I said, Thunderbolt does work with this also from what I can tell. 1/26/2024 - I am updating this because I also wanted to note that this works great with the Surface Pro 7. The only exception is the built in wired network does not seem to get recognized, but I don't care. I am using WIFI anyway. So Sound, video, and all other devices work perfectly.

**UPDATE** Now my rear USB port has died--the only one of two standard ports that didn't hiccup and glitch. This thing worked FAIR (front USB port always glitchy) for about a year and a half--MINUS any Mac capacities--and now is essentially an aftermarket power brick. The combination of misrepresented functionality (no Mac support despite showing Mac use), faulty design (front USB unreliable, irregular power supply to dual monitors), and poor reliability (multiple ports and functions dead within 18 months) have serious undermined my former respect for this brand. DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT. (ORIGINAL REVIEW:) Disappointing. First, it was not clear to me when I purchased this that it would not allow me to extend screens from my MacBook. There is now a slide that shows that all Mac screens will be identical. It’s possible I missed that a year and a half ago at purchase, but I think I would have noticed. In any case, claiming this is Mac compatible is inane. I don’t know anyone who purchases a docking hub so they can see 3+ screens of the SAME THING. Mac users, beware. I was willing to attribute that to careless comparisons on my part—partly based on a very high opinion of Anker in general. BUT unfortunately the problems do not end there. Though there are two standard USB ports, the way in which this device is wired makes it difficult to use them. If I place my keyboard dongle in the front USB port, and insert a flash drive into the USB-C port next to it, there is suddenly an irregular lag to my mouse movements. I cannot work all day with my mouse lagging. Of course I can move the dongle to the rear of the unit, but now my printer cable is projecting from the front and that’s the whole point of having rear USB ports. In short, why design the ports in a way that they interfere with each other? ANOTHER ISSUE is flickering in my monitor screen sometimes. I looked online and the only solution I found is turning down the refresh rate because “60 Hz on each screen is a lot for the hub to handle”. I thought 60 Hz was pretty much standard so again I’m not sure why a device would be advertised as handling up to three screens if two was going to tax it. This problem also seems intermittent but it ought to happen never. LASTLY, just this past week, the device suddenly can no longer extend more than one screen on my Windows work computer. I’ve tried two computers and multiple cables but whatever I do Windows will not recognize that I have two monitors attached and allow me to extend them. Both monitors are actually live and connected but show the same image, so somehow the hub has lost the ability to differentiate between them. Now the hub is useless. I have disconnected my second monitor from the hub and connected it directly to my laptop. I have actually moved my keyboard/mouse dongle and attached it directly to the laptop as well. This removes all purpose for having a hub at all. And again, this is for my Windows work computer—my MacBook has all these issues but would not extend screens even when the hub was fully functional. I bought this because I had faith in the Anker brand and because it was slightly less expensive than the hub Apple promoted on its website. I regret this purchase. Now I have a $150 hub that combines only two of the five cable connections I connect and disconnect every time I move my computer from work to home. Very, very disappointed. Pay more to get a better and more reliable product.

Works great with my work laptop, a Thinkpad. I have a TKL keyboard, Macropad, Webcam, and two monitors plugged into the Thunderbolt port on the laptop. So I have 2 monitors and the laptop screen itself. Both monitors are 1080P. With all that plugged in I have two USB C ports on the front along with a card reader, 3.5 mm headphone combo jack, and an unused Displayport port available. I don't think I can plug another display in though without removing an existing one. Power delivery is included by a grounded plug into a brick that plugs into a barrel port on the actual dock. No extra setup required for anything, and it just works. If something goes wrong, I'll update my review, but for now it's awesome.

With this dock I can connect my laptop with a single cable to connect to a second monitor, ethernet, and power. It also has additional USB ports and an SD card reader, but I personally don't use any of those. Overall, it's super convenient. It's even better if you add a magnetic USB-C adapter, just make sure to get one that supports both high speed data and high power charging. I got a right-angle 240W+40Gb/s connector from Magtame (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CWGHXVFK), and it works great with this dock. My one complaint with this dock is that every now and then, video out doesn't work. My laptop says it can see the monitor, but my monitor doesn't see the laptop. When this has happened, disconnecting my laptop, turning the dock off and then on again, and then reconnecting my laptop fixes the issue. It's only happened 5 or 6 times, and I have used the dock hundreds of times. (On a typical day I connect my laptop to the dock 2 or 3 times, and I've had it for almost a year and a half.) Overall, it's a huge timesaver.

I really liked this unit. It allowed me to connect all my peripherals and 3 additional monitors with one USB-C connection. It ran great for over a year, then some of the video outputs would flicker. Now, 16 months on, all the video outputs have failed. Note that the third video output is Display Port, so you may need an adapter to connect to an HDMI monitor.

This dock seemed to work ok for a little while. Then the problems started. A lot of the issues revolved around the monitor not displaying properly. It started with random swaps between resolutions, and eventually turned into the monitor completely cutting out. It wasn't that the monitor wasn't getting a source, just a blacked out screen. I tried multiple different HDMI cables, different ports and even switched to the DisplayPort. None of these solved my issues. So I reached out to Anker. I've had good luck in the past with their products so I was looking forward to having this issue resolved. They advised that it could be covered under warranty, which is great, but their warranty process is not streamlined. The main issue being that I have to send the product in, and after 5-7 business days AFTER they receive it, they'll determine whether they will send me a new product. So now I'm out a dock for who knows how long, and there's no guarantee the product will return functional. It's difficult to understand this level of customer service, but apparently it's what Anker has decided to go with. UPDATE: Customer support has reached out to me and offered a solution that works for both of us. While I had higher hopes and expectations of the product, I am appreciative of their support's willingness to rectify the situation. I have had good experiences with other Anker products, and will probably continue to purchase from them going forward.

Single USB-C to the laptop gives my laptop a connection to two monitors, speakers, mouse, power, SD cards and USB drives. This cleaned up the physical desktop from several cords and cables. Connecting the laptop to the devices is much quicker. It's compatible with my Lenovo Idea pad 5 and my Dell Latitude 5530. Liked it enough to buy a second one so both of my home offices have one.