Dell D3000 SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Docking Station (YWDN0)

I purchased this for my Dell Inspiron 5378 i7-7500U. I use this laptop daily, 10 hours per day. I have disconnected at least once a day for the time I have had the laptop.I was concerned at first about the frequent plug/unplugs on the USB-A port on my laptop, as well as the DC adapter. Sure it would be better to mate like the old docking stations, but after a while you get used to just two plug-ins. The dual Monitor is essential, and I was especially worried about wearing out the HDMI cable.I have always connected:- External HDD (super speed connection)- 3Dconnexion space mouse- USB wireless Mouse and USB wireless Keyboard (I have them separate to get the 5 button mouse)- Ethernet cable (although I sometimes unplug to use the wireless network)- HDMI cable- external USB hub- external Super-mini DVD player- Docking Station Power cableThat is a 7 connections down to 2 (Power and USB). Everything always works without thinking about it. Today, I just connected it to my new KVM (https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MEHPWG3/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1), and everything still just works!To date I have zero complaints; it works well in my home office stationary set-up. I even zip tied it up to my computer stand with holes (https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B0036RA5EA/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1) and it is neatly tucked out of the way.If you are on the fence, get it, you will be glad you did; your productivity will go up just not worrying about all of the hook-ups.

**Update: I've found online that there appears to be driver incompatibility issues between Displaylink, which apparently makes the software within this device, and Nvidia graphics cards. Unfortunately, my XPS 15 has an Nvidia card, and so I have the issues listed below. Displaylink has been aware of these issues for about 2 years now and has not come up with a patch to fix this. Maybe they don't like money. As always, however, Amazon was willing to take it back without any fuss. Another good Amazon experience.The docking station would have been the perfect solution for the intended use of my laptop at home...if it worked. There are two main deal-breakers for this device that I think warrant my sending it back.First of all, I use Windows Media Center (WMC) in conjunction with a Home Run Prime TV tuner to record and watch TV through my laptop (XPS 15) and on my main TV in the living room. With all the cables going directly into my laptop, it works fine. With all the cables running through the docking station and the one USB 3.0 cable going into my laptop, WMC will not open full-screen; it just shows a black background with the cursor above it. Even if I run it not in full screen, the video and audio are very choppy. If I can't use the docking station with WMC in full-screen, that alone means I probably won't keep it.Another issue I've found is that restarting laptops through the docking station doesn't work; instead of the laptop rebooting after shutting down, it stays shut down and I have to manually power it on. This doesn't seem like a big deal, but because I keep the laptop under my TV in a tight space with a million cords running around, it is not trivial.I've updated the drivers for the docking station--which also was not intuitive because for some reason the Displaylink software will not look for updates when you are running your internet through the docking station, and so I had to enable my wireless card from my laptop to do this)--and that still didn't help either of these issues.

I have a Dell 3440 laptop and this does the trick for a port replicator. It's a bit disheartening that laptops got rid of the bottom dock and have to utilize this with both a USB and Power cord plugged in to keep charge. I just feel with the amount of "undocks" and docks between home an office will wear on the power connector on the laptop.All in all, the device works great. It was a bit challenging to get the monitors set up the way I wanted; as it works as a three monitor configuration if you take the laptop display as the third display. That's kinda cool, but it would only share it's display with one of the other two monitors, or be turned off completely. Turning off completely allowed me to get the resolution on the two other displays the way I wanted them. Also make sure you turn off your power sleep mode when powered on, otherwise the system seems to freeze up without much way to get your displays back other than power off.

As a port replicator it works fine.The Dell Super Speed 3.0 will not charge your laptop battery. Even though the "dock" (port replicator) is powered by its own (different) power supply, it does not charge the laptop battery. You will need to plug the laptop into the power supply to keep the laptop charged up.Please note: This "docking station" will not charge your laptop battery.

There are some weird issues with the Renesas USB 3.0 drivers bundled with Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 and some poor laptop BIOS implementations, here. Essentially on booting the dock doesn't appear and monitors connected to it are dead. The fix was easy, the Renesas drivers (which are meant for Windows 7) work great, though, as pointed out by the DisplayLink website FAQ.I also had a couple weird issues with the resolution being fixed to 1440x900 (I have two 1600x900 monitors and a 1600x900 laptop panel) when using the laptop HDMI as well as a dock connection via HDMI or DVI - just using the dock connectors and ignoring the laptop connectors seems to have fixed it, too. Beware of your video card manufacturer's drivers and how they calculate bandwidth required on the GPU to generate a display!