NEW Microsoft Surface Dock 2, Ethernet For Notebook

Works great with the surface studio laptop. I have a 5120x1440 monitor that I have a single USB-C to DisplayPort cable connected to the dock. It is able to drive that monitor in HDR without any issues. Charging is at full speed as well. It also has a gigabit Ethernet connection They provide enough usb ports for a non insane person. My desktop on the other hand uses about 15 usb ports and has a hub. I haven’t required a use case with this dock to add much and don’t really fill them all. If your laptop is your primary computer then I could see the need to buy a hub in addition to this dock Works great with the surface studio laptop. I have a 5120x1440 monitor that I have a single USB-C to DisplayPort cable connected to the dock. It is able to drive that monitor in HDR without any issues. Charging is at full speed as well. It also has a gigabit Ethernet connection or at least what my router is reporting. They provide enough usb ports for a non insane person. My desktop on the other hand uses about 15 usb ports and has a hub. I haven’t required a use case with this dock to add much and don’t really fill them all. If your laptop is your primary computer then I could see the need to buy a hub in addition to this dock. I don’t know if anything gets bottlenecked. But it seems to handle a lot of data transfer over this thin cable. Very satisfied about how slick and robust this dock is.

I've been using a Surface Dock 2 (purchased from another retailer) with a Surface Pro X. I connected the Dock to the monitor using a VGA adapter I'd been using with an older computer. At first the new setup worked fine but after a few months the monitor began to flicker. Sometimes the monitor wouldn't display anything at all. Each time I turned the computer on I had to fiddle with the connection but eventually, fiddling no longer worked. Eventually I stopped trying and made due with just the Pro X monitor. Needless to say, I was quite frustrated. As time when y I continued to search for a solution directly with Microsoft, on the web and here on Amazon's pages. I noted that many other Dock 2 users were having similar frustrations. The monitor I was using was an older model so I bought a one. The problems continued with the new monitor. Thinking the VGA cable I was using might have been the source of the trouble, I tried a new one of those, another VGA. That didn't fix the issues either. Well, the other day I decided to take last shot with an HDMI cable, purchased here on Amazon (USB C - HDMI 6 ft Benfei) for about $10. Today I plugged it in. Immediately, the monitor worked flawlessly! I don't know if all VGA connectors fail with the Dock 2 but clearly, mine did. So my recommendation is to go the HDMI route from the start and save yourself a lot of potential grief. By the way, I've loved the Pro X itself from the beginning.

The original power charger that came with my Microsoft Surface Laptop Studio quit working, so I needed to purchase a replacement charger. It's nearly impossible to find a similar charger to the original, other than through third party options. I found out the hard way that a non-Microsoft product isn't always compatible, despite what online descriptions state. So I needed to return the replacement charger I initially purchased. Thankfully I had the original Surface Dock as a backup to use with my Microsoft Surface Laptop Studio until I received the Surface Dock 2. Like the original Surface Dock, the Surface Dock 2 works perfectly with my Laptop Studio device -- but with improved compatibility and greater power. (I always received a message about the original Surface Dock transmitting a slow charge and to use the original charger that came with my device, which was impossible.) My only real complaint is the steep cost of the Surface Dock 2 (approximately $200-$260, depending on if you can find it on sale or full price).

TL:DR - This works for MS Surface Go, gen 1! USB C to HDMI seems to work with generic and quality USB c to HDMI devices. Everything seems to work as expected. Plug in, let it install the drivers, then go!...restart may be necessary. The dock itself has soft rubber(?) lining on the bottom to reduce sliding around. The dock connects to your surface with the proprietary magnetic plug that's around 32 inches so your laptop or tablet doesn't have to be stuck near the dock. Ethernet port works as expected. Audio port is both speaker + mic ports in one (similar to your cell phone). Two USB c video ports in the back so you add two monitors! I would recommend if you need more than a tablet or laptop. Detailed review - I wasn't sure if this would work well for my Surface Go but I took the chance. I also was concerned about the USB c to HDMI adapter because i'm not as familiar with the USB c protocols and devices. Both turned out to work fine together. I have my Surface Go 1 docked now, with both my HDMI monitor and HDMI TV connected to this dock. Setup was very easy. I just plugged everything in and let it set itself up. I did have to let it finish setting up and then disconnect and reconnect the connector. I suspect this necessity is a Windows thing, maybe a surface thing, because I had to do it with my generic hub as well. Reconnect it and it should work. The HDMI adapter that I bought worked easily out of the box. An interesting thing that I found was that my generic USB c hub (5 in 1 or 7 in 1 type) has an HDMI out and that worked too! This USB c display protocol that this dock has may already be in our USB c devices that have HDMI ports. I checked my device manager and display adapter settings and it appears that the HDMI connections are working off the surface's graphics cards and not the external video card types. The second biggest reason I wanted to get this dock was the Ethernet port that this dock has. My surface doesn't have an Ethernet port and I'm read that normal 7 in 1 hubs that have HDMI and Ethernet ports usually can't handle the data so I didn't want to spend the $ to find out later that I'm not getting the expected performance. I don't know how to tell how fast the Ethernet is working but I can watch a video over remote desktop with only a slight bit of lag on one of my HDMI connected monitors. The audio port with both mic and headphones is important nowadays because of the video conferencing that I've been doing and this port works as expected. One thing that was interesting was that windows identified the device as USB Audio or Headphones (USB) but this is not a problem. Final words, this is a dock, not a hub. Meaning, don't expect this to be portable. This is not a portable device, I think of this as a portability facilitator. It lets you be portable by putting all your device connections in one place AND adds more connectors and expands on what you can connect as well. It also has a power brick that is literally the same size as the dock. If you want portable, then you need something more like a hub, but those hubs are not a great solution for permanent setups either because you might need to power it with a USB c port AND your surface will still need its power supply if you don't want to just run on batteries. Then you might also need your audio connection... This is really how my setup was before this dock. My hub connected to my Surface's USB c. it needed power so it was plugged into a USB power adapter. This hub also didn't work every time and I constantly had to unplug it or its power until things connected. My Surface's power connector was also plugged into my Surface and I had an audio connection for my speakers. My device: Surface Go (model 1824) CPU: Intel Pentium 4415Y @ 1.6, 64 bit Ram 4 GB USB C to HDMI: Cable Matters Aluminum USB C to HDMI Adapter for Surface Pro 7 and More - Support 4K 60Hz and HDR https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07MFW2G3K

Perfect technology to give flexibility to a Surface for connectivity of peripherals,... USB, HDMI

Estuve pensando comprar un Dock Thunderbolt para utilizar con mi Surface Laptop Studio, ya que solo tiene 2 puertos USB-C con Thunderbolt, pero ya que tengo otros 2 dispositivos Surface (Pro 7 y Go 2) pensé que sería una mejor inversión este ultimo ya que les pemitiría acceder a los mismos recursos. El Surface Dock 2 es bonito, a pesar de que simplemente es una "cajita con ranuras". Se siente premium al tocarlo...su exterior, el cable de calidad y con un plástico muy fino. Es PESADO, para nada ligero...pero esto hace que lo puedas colocar en un sitio en el escritorio y que no se deslice o que lo puedas empujar fácilmente y que se caiga, aparte tiene sistema anti-derrapante, por lo que se queda donde lo colocas. El cable de conección a la laptop tiene muy buena longitud, por lo que te ayuda a posicionar bien el dispositivo en tu área de trabajo. Conectores: Tiene casi todo lo que necesitas. Tengo conectados 2 dispositivos USB-A, 1 USB-C y 2 Monitores HD. Utilicé la conección LAN sin problemas, aunque normalmente no la requiero. La carga es de 100 watts, por lo que carga mis laptops rapidísimo. ¿Qué podría pedir del dispositivo? Me hubiera gustado tener 2 salidas HDMI nativas para no tener que conectar 2 adaptadores USB-C a HDMI Me gustaría fuera un poco menos caro Me gustaría que pudiera ser utilizado por otro sistema de dispositivos, por medio de conección con Thunderbolt. Pero ahora es rápido y eficiente simplemente conectar un cable a mi latpop y tener TODO listo y a la mano: monitores, mouse, teclado, impresora, escáner. Muy satisfecho con la compra.

I had purchase this product on Amazon. After using it for few months know I am having some trouble with it. I contact Microsoft and they said that this product is not covered under their warranty as it is not sold by Microsoft India. It has been imported by someone and sold into India. At least we expect the Amazon vendors to inform the buyers that this product will not be covered under any warranty. I feel cheated

Working perfectly with my Surface pro 7 and external monitor via Uni usbc- to HDMI cable. It is worth every single cent

Recibí el producto sin ningún problema o desperfecto. Su compatibilidad con mi Surface Pro 9 se siente muy natural y sin ningún inconveniente. Algunas consideraciones que se deben tener en cuenta antes de la compra: - Es un producto muy poco portable ya que es pesado y bromoso. Cuenta con una base hecha de material antiderrapante diseñado para estar fijo en un escritorio o cualquier superficie plana. Esto es parte de su diseño como un dock de escritorio, por lo que si estas buscando un hub de acoplamiento que provea puertos extras a tu Surface y que puedas traer de manera portátil cómodamente, este no es el producto ideal. - Considerar que no tiene entradas HDMI para display, ya que ambos puertos para este fin son USB-C. Si se desea acoplar a un monitores externos a través de HDMI es necesario un adaptador adicional.