USB C Docking Station 3 Monitors with Power Supply, 4URPC Laptop Docking Station Dual Monitors for Windows and MacBook, Universal Docking Station with 2 HDMI, DP, 6 USB Ports, Gigabit Ethernet, Audio

It's the Zoom era. And with that, a huge amount of choices. Once you have the laptop, there's the mic, the camera, the monitor, the speakers or headset, and the lights. And now, at the center of all that to make it work together...is the HUB (or dock).I purchased 2 USB-C Laptop Docking Station Dual Monitor HDMI (1 for home and 1 for office) for my windows laptop on Black Friday 2021. They both work well. Feels solid and transfers data and what I need well. The mic, monitor, camera and laptop all work together. True plug and play.After using them...my biggest gripe would be it's weight, and that it's a "stand up" unit (can't lay flat horizontally). When you have all the plugs in the back, the weight of the wires pull back on the unit. So it always looks like it's falling backwards. I'd like to see it have more weight or have the ability to lay it flat horizontally or both.Other than that, it's served my needs well. Unfortunately, one of the units stopped working and I had to contact customer service. They were extremely responsive and after some troubleshooting, they determined the unit wasn't working. It stopped working before the 2 year warranty ended so I was able to get a refund...which I used towards upgrading to the USB-C Docking Station 3 Monitors.Technology is always changing so I believe I'll want to upgrade again sooner with 3-4 Lightning 3/4 ports and a few USB 3.2 A & C ports. Hopefully 4URPC comes out with them for Windows 11 soon!

Bought with the like that it was not bulky, but I also had plans to have a third monitor option for my Mac later. All other options I came across when shopping offered mirroring on multiple monitors (A-B-B-B) for a Mac, but I wanted to extend my Mac to (A-B-C-D). It wasn't until a year post purchase that I got that 3rd monitor. When I noticed that the 3rd HDMI didn't work, I reached out to the seller. I shared details ( install, connections, issues) and they hooked me up with stellar service - even after a year later on my purchase. They helped me right away to troubleshoot and when that didn't work they replaced my dock - I didn't have to buy another 🥹. Was super happy about the dock even with just two monitors, but even more happy about it now. My three monitos work and look great. Great dock! Easy to connect, works like a charm if you want that quadruple option for your computer (Mac or PC).

Great source to connect to dual screens, had to set up displaylink in order have it work on the 2021 macbook pro, had a couple issues with connecting sometimes but figured it out, after having it for a little over a year ( Bought in may 2021) it has started to disconnect randomly while working and re-arranges all my windows,for the price of it, would have thought it was atleast keep up for 2 years of work, not the best if you are looking for a long term device to work

I bought this DisplayLink dock to be used with my M1 MacBook Air because I needed to add a second external monitor, and the M1 MacBooks only support one external monitor via its GPU. I'm using a 27" Apple LED Cinema Display with this dock (via a mDP(female)-to-DP(male) adapter. The image quality on the 27" Apple LED Cinema Display is stunning via this DisplayLink dock. I do not see any artifacts that would be induced by the DisplayLink compression, but, of course, I'm only using it with the 1440p resolution monitor. I think that you should naturally expect more visible compression artifacts with a 4K @60Hz display when playing videos. All in all, so far this DisplayLink dock branded as 4URPC has performed really well, but I've only had it for about 24 hours so far.The 27" Apple LED Cinema Display wakes up instantaneously when I wake up the M1 MacBook Air, and it also goes to sleep immediately when I put the M1 MacBook Air to sleep. In fact, my primary 5K monitor connected to the M1 MacBook Air via USB Type-C to DP1.4 cable takes longer to wake up than the 27" Apple LED Cinema Display connected to the M1 MacBook Air via the 4URPC DisplayLink dock.I can control the volume on the 27" Apple LED Cinema Display using the Apple Magic Keyboard (Bluetooth), but I can't control the brightness of the 27" Apple LED Cinema Display using the Apple Magic Keyboard. The lack of brightness control is a known limitation of the DisplayLink driver, but this feature may be enabled in a future release of the DisplayLink driver.Another upside of this dock is that it has USB-A ports both on the back (for connecting things like a web cam) and on the front (for connecting your phone, etc.), as well as a USB-C OUT port on the back.However, there is not a single dock that is absolutely perfect, so you will have to find the one that suits your personal needs the most. This dock did not completely satisfied my needs for one reason (which, I must admit, is not very common). As I mentioned earlier, I have a true 5K monitor that uses a single DisplayPort 1.4 connection to receive the 5K signal from an external source. When I use this dock, I have to connect my 5K monitor to the Mac's USB-C port with a USB-C to DisplayPort1.4 cable to be able to receive a 5K image on the monitor because this dock does not have a DisplayPort connector that can passthrough a pure DisplayPort signal from the computer's GPU to the monitor.These are the downsides of this dock:1. This dock has two HDMI ports: one of them (located next to the USB-C port that connects to the computer) is the HDMI port that passes through the USB-C DisplayPort Alternate Mode video signal from the connected computer, while the other HDMI port (located next to the DisplayLink port) only works with the DisplayLink protocol. Therefore, you can connect a monitor to the HDMI port located next to the USB-C port and the display will light up even if you are not running a DisplayLink driver on the computer. However, the downside here is that the image out of this port maxes out at 4K @30Hz. The 30Hz refresh signal is not really acceptable for using a computer monitor, as even the movement of a mouse pointer appears jagged (or not very smooth) due to a low refresh rate. The question is, Why did the manufacturer limit the refresh rate to 30Hz out of this port, and I think the answer is that the manufacturer wanted to reserve the bandwidth across the USB-C cable connected to the computer so that other devices connected to this dock (USB devices, SD and microSD cards, and DisplayLink ports) would get enough bandwidth. I can understand the reasoning behind limiting the refresh rate out of this HDMI port, but it pretty much renders it useless. It's especially upsetting because this is the only video-signal port on this dock that can pass through the video signal from the computer's GPU to the monitor without having to leverage the DisplayLink protocol, which means a native uncompressed 4K signal generated by the computer's GPU. Again, it's useless being capped at the 30Hz refresh rate. Moreover, even if you reduce the resolution (in the computer's operating system) sent to the monitor connected to this pass-through HDMI port, the maximum refresh rate is still 30Hz, so you can't reduce the resolution to increase the refresh rate.2. This dock has only one DisplayPort connector. The DisplayPort connector on this dock (which uses the DisplayLink protocol) maxes out at 4K @60Hz, which is the limitation of the DisplayLink 6950 chip. However, there are true 5K (5120 x 2880) monitors on the market (not many, though) that can receive the 5K signal via one DisplayPort 1.4 connector, but when such monitor is plugged in to this dock's DisplayPort connector, the maximum resolution received by the monitor is 4K @60Hz with significant artifacts caused by a high compression ratio that's required to send a 4K image as data from the computer to the dock across a single USB-C cable.. This particular downside is not really a fault of the manufacturer of this dock, but the manufacturer could have included another DisplayPort connector that would pass-through to the connected monitor the true DisplayPort signal from the computer's GPU (received as USB-C DisplayPort Alternate Mode signal from the computer across the USB-C cable).3. If you are using this dock with a monitor that only has DisplayPort connectors (no HDMI connectors), your only option is to use the DisplayLink protocol for receiving the image from the connected computer, which is not a native GPU-generated image but is rather a compressed by the DisplayLink driver (hence CPU-intensive) image received as data from the connected computer. The artifacts created by such software compression may not be noticeable with connected displays whose resolution is 1440p or lower, though. Also, the increased load on the CPU may not be noticeable if you are using a modern powerful Intel computer or the M1 Apple Silicon based Mac. However, if the resolution of your monitor is 4K or higher, the degree of compression required to send the DisplayLink signal from the computer to the dock increases exponentially, and the image artifacts become much more pronounced (as well as the CPU utilization rises significantly). Of course, you may ask, why is this a downside, since this dock is a DisplayLink dock? Well, the reason it's a downside is the fact that the purpose here is to get the best possible image to the most possible number of external displays. So, driving a high-resolution DisplayPort monitor, using a compressed by DisplayLink image, is not optimal. A better solution would be to provide one DisplayPort connector on the dock that can pass-through the true GPU-generated DisplayPort image (received from the computer via the USB-C DisplayPort Alternate Mode), and then provide another DisplayPort connector on the dock that leverages compressed video stream received from the computer as data compressed by the computer's CPU (which is what DisplayLink does). Then, you can connect a lower-resolution display (such as a 1440p display) to the DisplayLink-enabled DisplayPort connector on the dock, while connecting your higher-resolution display (such as 4K) to the DisplayPort connector on the dock that leverages the USB-C DisplayPort Alternate Mode signal received from the computer's GPU.When it comes to the most desirable resolution on a particular size screen, to be able to comfortably read text, the most optimal resolution for the 27" monitor is 1440p. The native 4K resolution makes the font way too small on a 27" monitor. Macs are capable of downscaling a 5K video signal (5120 x 2880) to 1440p (2560 x 1440) by using four physical pixels to make up one virtual pixel, which results in what Apple calls "retina-display" image, where virtual pixels are not discernible by a human eye, so the fonts look like if they were printed with a high-quality laser printer on high-quality paper. However, this can only be achieved with today's technology by the computer's GPU that sends the DisplayPort signal to the monitor via USB-C DisplayPort Alternate Mode. When using 4K displays (3840 x 2160) with the USB-C DisplayPort Alternate Mode, the GPU can also downscale to 1440p, but each virtual pixel will be displayed on the screen using only 2.25 physical pixels, which means that the virtual pixel bridges across physical pixels, which induces a certain amount of blur. This downscaled image still looks better than the native 1440p resolution (2560x1440) on the 27" monitor, but the virtual pixel is not as well defined as when it's made up of 4 physical pixels without a virtual pixel bridging physical pixels. With the 4K resolution downscaled to 1440p, the screen fonts look a little less defined than when the 5K resolution is downscaled to 1440p, but it's still very good, and some people can't really tell the difference between a 5K display and a 4K display when both are downscaled to 1440p.While 4K @60Hz can be downscaled well enough by the GPU to the 1440p resolution, the fonts on the 4K display downscaled to 1440p by the DisplayPort driver running on the computer do not look much better than the fonts in the 1440p DisplayLink image sent to a display with the native 1440p resolution. In fact, I personally prefer the way that the fonts look on the native 1440p display (like the 27" Apple LED Cinema Display) connected to a DisplayLink dock than the way the fonts look on the 4K display downscaled to 1440p by the DisplayLink driver running on the computer. In my opinion, the benefit of using a DisplayLink dock to be able to use additional number of external monitors not supported natively by the computer is only worth it with monitors whose native resolution is 1440p or lower. 4K monitors that are connected via the DisplayLink protocol have too many pixels to be driven by the computer's CPU, and hence in order to reduce the amount of bandwidth required to send the 4K image generated by the DisplayLink driver running on the computer to the connected device, a much higher compression ratios have to be used, which results in quite noticeable artifacts with blurry font edges.I would suggest that the manufacturer of this dock consider the points I outlined in this review and create a next generation DisplayLink dock that has two DisplayPort connectors: one to be used as a passthrough DisplayPort signal from the computer (with the resolution that the computer supports up to an beyond 5K), while the other DisplayPort connector on the dock would function the same way as the only DisplayPort connector functions on this generation DisplayLink port: i.e. as a DisplayPort connector that leverages the DisplayLink protocol. Additionally, the HDMI connector that passes-through the video signal from the computer GPU to the connected monitor should not cap the signal at 30Hz but allow at least a 60Hz refresh rate. Perhaps, the number of USB ports should be reduced to ensure that the bandwidth available across a USB-C cable is not oversubscribed if one were to attach a device to every USB and SD port available on the dock.After using this dock for a week, I decided to go with the QGeeM New 14-in-1 DisplayLink dock, which has two DisplayPort connectors, where DisplayPort 1 is used as a passthrough DisplayPort signal received from the computer's GPU (no requirement to download a DisplayLink driver to use this port), while DislplayPort 2 is used as a DisplayLink-enabled connector (to connect a monitor to DisplayPort 2, a DisplayLink driver is required to be installed and run on the computer). The QGeeM dock also has two HDMI ports, with HDMI 1 being a pass-through port for the video signal received from the connected computer and generated by the computer's GPU, while HDMI 2 leverages the DisplayLink protocol to receive the video signal from the connected computer as compressed data. HDMI 1 connector on the QGeeM dock is capable of 4K @60Hz, so it's not capped at the 30Hz refresh rate, unlike a similar port on the 4URPC dock, which is capped at 4K@30Hz. DisplayPort 1 connector on the QGeeM dock is capable of passing through a true 5K (5120 x 2880) @60Hz resolution generated by the computer's GPU and received from the computer by the dock via USB-C DisplayPort Alternate Mode with no compression.

The docking station works great. I have bought 3 of these docking station models over the past couple of years. Actually, this docking station is a replacement for one that stopped working. It was under warranty, so I was able to get a new one free of charge. The best part was that I had a wonderful customer service experience. The representative was prompt, knowledgeable, and courteous. This company stands by their products. I won't hesitate to turn to them for my future docking station needs.