By Desire Athow
Docking stations are becoming more popular as a convergence of technological improvements and workplace changes make them logical extensions of laptops.
More and more organisations now allow their employees to work remotely which, in turn, fosters the need to obtain relevant peripherals to maintain productivity.
That’s monitors, keyboards and mice; the problem being that you often need a hub – the docking station – to maintain the link between all of them.
And until now, you needed two cables to make full use of your docking station setup, one for the power supply unit and one to connect to the actual docking station. That means having a secondary PSU if you commute frequently between two locations.
The emergence of USB Type-C together with the rapid adoption of that connector by most vendors (thanks to Apple) means that a one-cable setup – with the docking station charging your laptop – is now possible.
IOGear sent us its freshly announced USB-C Docking Station with power delivery (product code GUD3C01) which is compatible with Windows (8.1 and newer) and Mac (10.10.5 or better). No Linux here, and most importantly, no Windows 7.
Note that this device is not available in the UK, …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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