Kensington SD3500v USB 3.0 Dual Display Universal Laptop Docking Station, Expand your Home Office work space, Black

exellent quality and happy so far

I wanted to use this hub to extend my laptop display to two external monitors plus the laptop screen and it works brilliantly! I have only one HDMI port in my laptop but this hub allows me to use a HDMI and a DVI to HDMI adapter (included in the kit) to connect the two external monitors. I also have my wireless mouse, keyboard, and external speakers connected to the hub via 3 of the 4 USBs, which is keeping my laptop's USB ports free. Even better, I can tuck the hub away so that I'm not surrounded by a mass of cables, as I was before the hub arrived.Installation was incredibly easy. I plugged in the hub into a USB3.0 and it worked instantly. I had to update my DisplayLink drivers to allow the monitors to work but that took about 30 seconds. I hadn't expected to get setup so quickly.If you're looking for a way to extend your screen via USB and your laptop can support DisplayLink, this is a great solution!

Bought this unit to work with my wife's Surface Pro 4 (Windows 10). Pugged it in, followed the download instructions for the latest software (so ignored included CD) and up and running in about 15 minutes, with external monitor with crisp, flicker-free viewing at high res. Keyboard / mouse, wired LAN at Gigabit speed and loads of USB ports, including USB3 front-facing sockets. Requires one 13A socket for a power brick. Once software installed, all subsequent connections have been simple since - connect one USB cable and you are on! Recommended.Eight months later - as delighted as ever! Since the above review took another PC (Samsung Notebook) and plugged it in to the USB port - all installed no hassle, without need for CD or manual install of drivers. I came back to this review only as I am about to buy another unit!

I bought this item a few weeks ago in order to plug in a work laptop for home working after unplugging my personal laptop (different brands of laptop). It also adds more USB ports for printers, hard drives etc.It worked successfully after two calls to the company's technical support line, as it needed some software to be downloaded from an online website, and I needed to find out which software to uninstall and reinstall. So far it has worked well, except that today the sound connections seems to have stopped working so I will need to make another call to technical support on this.I would recommend this product, and hope that it continues to work successfully for the next few years.It does require some software to be installed on the computer, and in the case of a work laptop, this may require assistance from the company's IT Department. In may case, they were happy to assist.

Fantastic little device. I have an HDMI 24" monitor connected to one output, a DVI 24" monitor connected to the other, and my laptop screen giving me a third - all set up for extended so I can span across all three screens from left to right. I tried to setup the second 24" monitor using the supplied DVI to HDMI converter but it wouldn't work so I used the DVI interface instead. Same quality so not a problem. I am amazed that from one USB3 port I have a 1 Gig network connection, 6 USB ports, two monitor outputs, and a sound input/output. I have even bought a second unit for the office. Works perfectly with Windows 8.1 but you do need to download the latest software from their site.

So useful, very pleased and buying another.Connect it to your PC, take a few seconds to configure all the monitors and the settings are remembered forever. Laptops are connected in seconds. You can plug in your earphones and few more usb devices. Now the whole family can share the same desk but use their own computers without the kids adding viruses to mine!My only snag is there's no on/off button. Sometimes I connect my work laptop to it and it doesn't signal the monitors to change or wake-up. However this is a tiny inconvenience where i just unplug the power and replug it again.

I purchased this docking station to allow me to use a Macbook Air with an external monitor. At this it fails as the Display Link software is not fully compatible with Yosemite. Two problems - when installed the DisplayLink driver prevents an external USB camera working with applications such as Skype (as one of the main reasons for going down this route was to be able to use an external web cam this is a major negative). Second is that the driver installs as separate display, that is always 'there' even if you are not connected to a display link.Rather than 1 star (which I would give the software) the 3 stars represent the use of the docking station as a great source of additional USB ports - though with hindsight an expensive solution to this particular problem.

Nothing bad to say. Working perfectly for the last three years.