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Sweden, Stockholm
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754 Review
32 Karma

Review on Cable Matters Docking Charging Computers by Derek Faseworld

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Works fine when set up correctly

I bought this USB-C Dock to use with the new Lenovo X1 Carbon. I chose it because it had two HDMI outputs, which would have made setting up with two external monitors easier. One of my current monitors had an HDMI input while the other only had VGA and DVI. I bought a DVI to HDMI cable. I ran into a lot of issues with this setup when running dual monitors. CableMatters support staff was very quick to respond. One suggestion was to toggle a setting on the dock; That helped, but didn't completely fix the issue. Support then suggested replacing the DVI monitor with an HDMI monitor. Luckily one of my local kids had an HDMI enabled monitor that wasn't being used. After changing monitors (I also replaced my existing HDMI cable with HDMI CableMatters and got another HDMI CableMatters for the 'new monitor'), everything seems to be working fine (no problems for two days). Bottom line is, if anyone wants to use this dock in a dual external monitor setup, both monitors will likely need to have HDMI inputs.

Pros
  • Done
Cons
  • Some issues