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Pros & Cons
Pros
Only shortcoming is the ridiculously bright blue led on the front. It's compact and simple to use.
Worked flawlessly. Everything works and it connects quickly. Works perfectly and as advertised!
Cons
The product name says it’s a thunderbolt dock, but that just a plain lie. Plastic case feels flimsy and it pretty large.
Vpn would always be disconnected when switching. It keeps resetting the display over and over again. There is input lag in the video.
Highlights
Quality
The dock itself is solid and well built.
I recommend it for all of it's reliable features and good software support.
I could never get 2 hdmi displays working at once and the ethernet also overheated the device (in the middle of a call with my boss).
Before this dock i tried the "lenovo thinkpad universal usb-c dock gen 2" of which everything worked except dual monitors, turn... Read More
Price
No, wait, there's more, it's affordable !
It is totally fair to expect a docking station at this price to deliver dual-display, and it failed.
While this product is indeed expensive, the old expression “you get what you pay for” is appropriate.
Dell wd15 (renewed)~$50; successfully display one 4k and one fhd but with limitation.
Shipping
The second display could only be delivered through vga port, not hdmi nor dp.
Packaging/appearance
Inside the box a couple of the docking station packages that come sealed from the manufacture were opened.
Competitiveness
But since it’s working so far compared to other stations i’ve tried before, i give it a 4 star
This docking station was purchased as an alternative to an hp thunderbolt dock that had 4 outputs that could only use 3 at a time.
I recently purchased the apple macbook pro with the m1 chip, and the sd5200t does not work with that chip.
I have tried pluggable (thunderbolt 3) one and also the lenovo's dock .
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- This product had a total of 211 reviews as of our last analysis date on May 26 2024.
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Certainly wont blame the manufacturer as im grateful that it works but it requires additional 3rd party displaylink software to be installed in order to make monitor 3 and 4 work
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
It works fine other than a little crash or two requiring some manual intervention
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
My issue is that 3rd party software introduces additional risk so that has to be accounted for
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
This docking station was purchased as an alternative to an hp thunderbolt dock that had 4 outputs that could only use 3 at a time
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Im using macbook pro 16inch 2019 with filevault turned on
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
If you connect 2 displays to the dock and plug the cable into the macbook with the lid closed it will not turn on
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
You need to open the lid of the laptop it will start to turn on and when it turns on then log in only then will the displays work
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Or you can connect everything you need to the docking station and separately 1 display to the macbook via usb type c in which case you must first connect the display and then the docking station the macbook will turn on with the lid closed with one active display connected via usb type c and only after login both will work
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