ThinkPad USA Ultra Dock With 90W 2 Prong AC Adapter (40A20090US, Retail Packaged), Black

I've been a Thinkpad user for decades. There are certain aspects of the brand that just work for me. The dull black plastic looks good after years, the clunky look is durable and timeless, the keyboards are almost always very pleasant and easy to type on, even on an airplane, and these docks. This dock looks very similar to the one I had 15 years ago for my IBM built thinkpad. I'm using this with my pair of T440 laptops, cheap old laptops that have excellent keyboards and are a steal to buy refurbished. though it's not listed in the compatibility list, it works flawlessly. The laptop slides very easily onto the dock, even with the extended life battery, and pops off very smoothly, without a click or any real mechanical noise. It's a nice improvement over the older docks. You get tons of USB ports, an HDMI port, a few other video ports. Truthfully the T440 isn't powerful enough to support a bunch of screens anyway, but you could run a pair if you wanted, and there are much more powerful laptops compatible with the dock. For the low price of this product, you get a really convenient way to connect a desk of accessories, and the T440 didn't have a normal HDMI port anyway. If this is compatible with your Thinkpad, it's a really good bargain and I found no defect with the way the laptop docks (some reviews for some docks complain about design flaws, but this model doesn't seem to have them.

Pro: 1. Extra ports 2. Easy docking 3. No issues with dual monitor (2 Display port). Can extend desktop 1 & 2 just fine. Laptop can be a 3rd screen, but i usually just go with the two monitors. 4. USB ports work fine. Even multiple usb keyboard/mouse dongles, recognizes more than one keyboard & mouse if you have them. 5. Mic port works fine also for head set. (trrs) Neutral: 6. Had some compatibility issue with a KVM switch, it may be the kvm / driver. It didn't recognize the keyboard and mouse from KVM. con: 1. none for now. Had it for a few months, so far so good, no issues.

tl;dr: • multimonitor works on Linux • 75-85% off makes it a hell of a deal • Lenovo cheaped out on the AC adapter, but it's fine I picked this thing up because it's compatible with my personal laptop, which despite having a Thunderbolt port, doesn't support my existing TB3 docks. (I think this is for want of PCI-E bandwidth; my TB docks are dual 4k but the laptop's TB3 lane is only 2x.) My first complaint about this thing is that it didn't actually come with a slim-tip AC adapter. Instead, it came with the old barrel-type and a very short adapter cable. That adapter cable caused problems for me, but I only noticed the problem after I had dropped and stepped on it, so that may not be Lenovo's fault at all. The problem is that due to slight tweaks or a will o' the wisp, the power would get cut to the device, and when it powercycled, my monitors didn't come back. I picked up a very cheap, third-party, aftermarket slim tip adapter with decent reviews, and I've had no problems of that kind since. LIMITATIONS: For multi-monitor use, the bandwidth limitations on the two DisplayPort ports on the dock allow only 3840x2160@30Hz each. This can be troublesome if your monitors use more bandwidth than that. Both monitors I have hooked up are that way: one is 3840x2160@60Hz and the other is 2560x1440p@165Hz. This means that with both plugged into the dock, sometimes only one will show up or give any output, but this can be worked around. Additionally, each DisplayPort port is paired with another video port of a different type, and only one of each pair can be used together. So it supports only two monitors. I have had no success daisy-chaining standalone MST hubs to try to add a third monitor, but I have only tried with one so far. LINUX QUIRKS You will need a recent Linux kernel for this to work. I'm running Linux 5.3 on NixOS. Additionally, sometimes a monitor will not show up in the KDE graphical display management tools, even though it is visible in the output of `xrandr -q`. Even when the graphical display is broken, however, VTs pretty much always work. So I have gotten my monitors to behave by instructing xrandr to set the resolutions and refresh rates from the virtual terminal, then quickly switching back. My shell is Fish, so the command in my specific case is this: sleep 10s; xrandr --output DP2-1 --mode 2560x1440 -r 60; xrandr --output DP2-2 -m 2560x1440 -r 60 and then switching back to the VT of the display server. OTHER NOTES: The laptop runs really hot most of the time when it's closed and pushing as many pixels as it can on the two external monitors.

I never realized how much I would love having a docking station for my laptop. When I get home, the laptop comes out of the backpack and onto the dock. It's immediately connected to a second monitor, bigger keyboard, and all the usual array of USB accessories one typically finds on a student's desk. When I want to take the laptop to the living room, nothing needs to be unplugged, just a quick tap on the eject button and it's ready to go.

El Dock resultó ser mejor de lo que esperaba, tiene varias funcionalidades que hacen que el precio que pagué por el ($600) sea el dinero mejor gastado. - Para empezar, incluye un cargador de 90w, es decir, el doble de potencia que el cargador que incluye la laptop y permitió que el cargador que tenía fijo en casa lo pueda tomar como cargador extra en el trabajo. Al tener el doble de potencia, el dock carga más rápidamente tu laptop. - Puedes conectar hasta 3 pantallas simultáneamente ya que cuenta con varias salidas de video: 1 HDMI, 1 DVI, 1 VGA y 2 Display Port. - En el caso de mi laptop T450, no cuenta con salida HDMI, tenía que usar un cable de mini DP a HDMI, pero la ventaja del dock es que ahora tengo salida de video 4K. - Tiene 6 puertos USB, de los cuales 3 son USB 3, contiene un puerto "USB always on" es decir, podrás cargar cualquier cosa con esos puertos aunque tu laptop esté apagada o no esté en el dock. - Mejora la ergonomía del teclado, al levantar la laptop unos 20°. - Contiene un par de llaves para evitar que el dock de desprenda de la laptop y por otra parte, el dock tiene entrada de candado de seguridad. cuando activas seguro del dock, se ilumina una luz led indicadora. - Incluye también un botón extra para prender y apagar tu laptop, aunque no le encuentro mucha utilidad, y por último, incluye un puerto Gbit Ethernet, aunque no he probado si puedas usar los dos ethernets simultaneamente, aunque no debería tener problemas. En conclusión: Si tienes una laptop compatible, no lo pienses, es mayor la utilidad que el precio.

As expected. Arrived quickly and works perfect.

Works great. Came with all accessories. Very happy with purchase

Una de las mejoras compras que he hecho. La estación de trabajo viene con seis puertos USB, salidas HDMI, VGA y Display port. Uno de los puertos USB está siempre alimentado, lo que permite cargar un dispositivo, celular, tablet, cámara fotográfica, etc, aunque la laptop no esté siquiera en la base. El adaptador de corriente es de 90 watts, que permite alimentar la estación de trabajo y la laptop simultáneamente. Tiene un candado que evita se pueda extraer la laptop sin autorización. Y enciende un LED que avisa en estado de este seguro. La base eleva la laptop, para una mejor ergonomía al escribir y permite la ventilación del equipo para un uso más fresco.