Hi all,
I am going to be working remotely for a month in my home state, and I want to get a good setup going with my laptop and a docking station with two 1920 x 1080 monitors. I currently have a ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 7 laptop with an i7-10701U, 16GB DDR3 RAM, 1TB SSD, and two USB-C Lightning Ports. My main concern is having poor performance while I use a dual monitor setup ,and I want to make sure that won't be an issue. I will be remoting into my PC at the office so the laptop will basically be a display bot while all the heavy data processing and GPU usage will occur at my office PC. I have made a list of docks and monitors below that I am considering.
Dock
Lenovo Thunderbolt 3 Essential Dock
Plugable USB-C 4K Triple Display Docking Station
WAVLINK USB C
StarTech.com USB C Dock
Cable Matters USB C Dock
Monitor
Acer K242HL
Acer G276HL
SAMSUNG LS27F354FHNXZA
ASUS VG245
I'm basically looking to take this combination of components and find a combo that gives me the most monitor space, good performance, and value. I'd like to spend max $650 on this, if possible. My current plan is to go with the Lenovo Thunderbolt 3 Essential, Acer G276HL, ASUS VE278Q. My justification with going with the Lenovo Docking Station is that I don't want to bet on an offbrand docking station that doesn't work properly.
Any thoughts on using offbrand docking stations? Any docking station horror stories? Anything I should look out for to make this setup work? Do you think my choices of equipment are good?
Any feedback, alternatives, or ideas are much appreciated!
Thank you,
I am going to be working remotely for a month in my home state, and I want to get a good setup going with my laptop and a docking station with two 1920 x 1080 monitors. I currently have a ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 7 laptop with an i7-10701U, 16GB DDR3 RAM, 1TB SSD, and two USB-C Lightning Ports. My main concern is having poor performance while I use a dual monitor setup ,and I want to make sure that won't be an issue. I will be remoting into my PC at the office so the laptop will basically be a display bot while all the heavy data processing and GPU usage will occur at my office PC. I have made a list of docks and monitors below that I am considering.
Dock
Lenovo Thunderbolt 3 Essential Dock
Plugable USB-C 4K Triple Display Docking Station
WAVLINK USB C
StarTech.com USB C Dock
Cable Matters USB C Dock
Monitor
Acer K242HL
Acer G276HL
SAMSUNG LS27F354FHNXZA
ASUS VG245
I'm basically looking to take this combination of components and find a combo that gives me the most monitor space, good performance, and value. I'd like to spend max $650 on this, if possible. My current plan is to go with the Lenovo Thunderbolt 3 Essential, Acer G276HL, ASUS VE278Q. My justification with going with the Lenovo Docking Station is that I don't want to bet on an offbrand docking station that doesn't work properly.
Any thoughts on using offbrand docking stations? Any docking station horror stories? Anything I should look out for to make this setup work? Do you think my choices of equipment are good?
Any feedback, alternatives, or ideas are much appreciated!
Thank you,
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