[NAME]  If you don’t care about getting power from a dock and can get the ports you need from a simple USB hub or something, then get a USB hub and a USB-C to DisplayPort cable. Those items plus your charger will occupy all three ports, but if that covers your needs and you don’t mind connecting/disconnecting three cables as you come and go, it’s certainly cheaper. Power from a dock though can be handy because for one thing, if you come and go a lot, only having one cable to deal with is nice. For another, it frees up your current power adapter to be used elsewhere, such as another area you use your laptop a lot or just as a dedicated on-the-go charger so you don’t have to unpack and repack it every time you come and go from your desk. If you want that, the WD19S 180W w/ 130W PD is what you want — NOT the WD19S 130W w/ 90W PD, which will be underpowered for your system. You can run dual 1440p displays or single 4K 60 Hz. The WD19TBS, which only comes as 180W w/ 130W PD, allows dual 4K 60 Hz or triple 1440p.
I just got the new XPS 15 and this is my first Dell Laptop. Unfortunately, it has almost no ports, so I need some docking station or adapter. It would be great to get some recommendations... Here is some info about my setup: - i7, Nvidia 3050 Ti - 1 old display (Dell U2515H), next year also a second one without high quality requirements. Laptop is only used for work (software development) - Laptop 99% of time time on the desk plugged in - No need for USB C ports but for quite some USB A ports.. possible also with an adapter I don't understand the idea of power via docking station... I mean, I have no problem putting having an additional cabel, the docking station and the laptop will be next to each other on the desk. And I don't get the impact of the docking station differences on my use case. I have following options: - WD19TBS for 300 Euro is quite a lot of money - WD 19 for a little less - TB16 with 130W cable for less than 100 euro or with 240W for a little bit more - A simple USB C hub with 1 or 2 displays support and various other ports for 30-100 Euro It would be also an option to buy something for the next year and then something better/newer when/if I buy another display or the prices drop. What would you recommend or could you share some experience with me? I already read quite some topics but everybody has a different use case...
Docking station for XPS 9510 without high resolution requirements