My wife and I both work remote half the week and in office half the week. She is provided one dock for laptop and she keeps that one at work. When she is at home, she needed a way to connect her laptop to the dual monitors in her home office without having to lug around the dock back and forth from work... since the concept of a dock is to leave it on the desk and take the laptop. I got her this one because she needed a cheap dock alternative. This connects to the laptop via USBC connection, and has 2 HDMI outputs for monitors and 2 USB ports for mouse and keyboard. What is especially nice about this one is that it allows her to use both attached monitors as individual extensions of her desktop (windows based laptop). Many other monitor splitters will only duplicate the additional displays, this one (because it connects via USBC) can handle the monitors all individually. It works great, and needs no additional power, it gets power from the USBC plug. If your laptop only has 1 USBC port and needs that one to charge the laptop, you will have an issue, but if you have 2 USBC ports and one is for charging and the other for this adapter, you are good to go. If you have a proprietary charging port and a single USBC plug, then you are good to go because the laptop is not charging from the USBC port.
This was worth the purchase, and I have used a lot of Anker products both at home and at work. It worked instantly and didn't require any extra setup.
If you have never used multiple displays, you may have to right click on your desktop, choose Display Settings, and arrange the displays to be in the correct alignment so when you drag from one to the other you are going to the right monitor. If you click "Identify", the monitors will display what Number the computer has labeled them, and you can tell the laptop what order that you have them on your physical desk by dragging the labeled display on screen to the right spot. You can rearrange them how you like, you can even offset the laptop if it sets lower on the desk than your monitors so that the drag to the other monitors actually flows realistically.
| Brand | Anker |
|---|---|
| Item model number | A83800A1 |
| Hardware Platform | Laptop |
| Operating System | Mac OS 9, Windows 10 |
| Item Weight | 3.2 ounces |
| Product Dimensions | 4.65 x 2.01 x 0.69 inches |
| Item Dimensions LxWxH | 4.65 x 2.01 x 0.69 inches |
| Color | Gray |
| Manufacturer | Anker |
| ASIN | B0874M3KW4 |
| Date First Available | April 15, 2020 |
