Features:

  • 3x SuperSpeed USB 3.0; 2x USB 2.0. Designed For Latitude 5175 2-in-1, 5179, 5280, 5285 2-in-1, 5289 2-In-1, 5480, 5580, 5590, 5591, 7275, 7280, 7285 2-in-1, 7370, 7380, 7389 2-in-1, 7480, E5570; Precision Mobile Workstation 3510, 3520, 5510, 5520, 7510, 7520, 7710, 7720; XPS 13 9360, 15 9550, 15 9560
  • Display / Video: 1x HDMI; 1x VGA; 1x Mini DisplayPort. Networking Data Link Protocol : Gigabit Ethernet
  • 1x RJ-45 Ethernet port; 1x Headphone/Mic 3.5mm port; 1x audio out 3.5 mm port
  • 180W AC Power Adapter with 7.4mm barrel
  • Display Port over USB Type-C Cable, See compatible systems in the description
Solid Video for 3 external monitors, and can add even more if the monitors are USB.

This device works exceptionally well, very small, light weight, and well done. I tried a few others in the past, one that had a pass through power, which didn't have enough juice to power 3 monitors, and another that was basically a conglomeration of cables and cable adapters. This box has the juice to drive 3 standard monitors using 2 HDMI and one Display port. I also (just for fun) plugged in 2 Asus USB3 Side Monitors as well, driving 5 monitors in total off this little box, and it did not overtax my laptop in the least bit. Very impressive! The unit will heat up a bit when driving many monitors, but nothing scary, just warm to the touch. When I drive the two side monitors with my other laptop directly, the videocard goes haywire trying to keep up and the fans sound like a jet engine. But this is running on a small Lenovo Yoga with only an I5 and standard Yoga video card, which I believe is an Intel on board card. Teh Triple Display box does all the video card heavy lifting. I would not try this for gaming as I believe it will render best only at low performance given the internals, but it is GREAT for standard business use when you just need additional displays for work.

Works great for me

Update: three things to be aware of - 1) check the Dell web site for monitor resolutions the WD15 supports. While it worked fine for my current monitor at 1920x1200, it will not support the higher resolution monitor that I plan to get in the near future. Therefore, I had to return this and get the TB16 instead; 2) the TB16 has a MUCH shorter USB-C/Thunderbolt cable attached to the dock which may be good or bad depending on your situation; 3) USB and sound output from the dock didn't work until I rebooted and received a prompt stating I needed to go through a couple steps as Administrator to allow the Thunderbolt connection to the dock. Until I got that prompt I was concerned the ports were not working for some reason. After many years with a Dell E-Port dock as the foundation of my home office setup which lasted through many Dell laptop upgrades, I was mildly surprised to find that the Latitude 7480 did away with the legacy E-Port connector. I was then dismayed to see inconsistent if not poor reviews of the WD15 and the TB16 as well as the WLD15 wireless dock. I decided to give this WD15 a try since it was the least expensive and has the ability to be mounted behind certain Dell monitors freeing up desk space. First, Amazon Prime delivered it in less than 16 hours! Second, upon plugging in power, monitor, and laptop, everything works fine. I don't know what to make of the complaints others have posted. Power, video (I've tried both VGA and HDMI-to-DVI with an Amazon Basics cable successfully), audio, Ethernet, and USB devices (wireless keyboard and mouse, USB microphone) all "just work". To me this is better than the wireless dock since the wireless can't provide power meaning you still need to plug the laptop into its own power supply. With the WD15, the USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 connection provides power and device connectivity more or less like the old E-Port dock used to do.

Dell Dock WD15 with 180W Adapter, USB Type-C

This review is for the Dell Dock WD15 with 180W Adapter, USB Type-C. I am very pleased with this dock, but I just recently purchased it and there have been a few BIOS updates to the Dell Precision 5510 and a few firmware updates for the dock, so I may have missed all of the bugs that have been fixed with the earlier software. The BIOS updates for the 5510 are easy to find, the firmware updates for the dock are not as easy. When going to the Dell support site, find the BIOS and driver updates by typing in your Service Tag and searching. Select the option to find the updates yourself and down near the bottom of the page in the "Other ways to find drivers" section and click the link to "Browse all drivers..." and the dock firmware should be in there under WD15. Once the firmware and BIOS are updated, the dock seems to work very well. The only issues I have found with it are when I plug the USB-C cable in, the laptop starts up if it was off and my monitors display the correct screens, but my USB keyboard doesn't work until I get past the Bitlocker screen. This means I have to open the laptop, use the laptop keyboard to type my Bitlocker password, then close my laptop screen to go back to my dual monitor setup. This results in another minor issue that occurs rarely. After closing the laptop, only one of my screens is working, so I go to the display options and see it still considers the laptop screen one of my screens, so I have to open my laptop and close it again to get the laptop to recognize the screen is closed. Other than that it works great. I have two of them, one for home and one for work. My home one uses the Mini-DP and the HDMI for video, Ethernet, USB for keyboard and mouse on the back, and USB on the front for an external hard drive. My work one uses the HDMI and VGA for video, Ethernet, a USB hub on my monitor that has keyboard, mouse, and USB headset, plus an Engineering tool on the back ports, USB on the front for an external hard drive and USB memory. So each are fully loaded and I have not had any display issues (other than the easily recoverable one I mentioned), speed issues to the external drives, or connection issues to the external Engineering tool I interface with. The only other downside is, I just got a new personal laptop around the same time (Dell Latitude E5570) that I thought would be compatible with the dock (since it is mentioned on the Dell WD15 website), but it isn't. The E5570 I have only supports the old E-port docking station, which I still have, but now I have to use both and switch my monitors, keyboard, and mouse back and forth. Using and old KVM and a couple HDMI switches made it easier, but not flawless.

Great Surface Book 2 15" USB-C Dock!

Great docking solution for Microsoft Surface Book 2 15". No need for Microsoft power connector. Running from USB-C: power, external monitor @ 3240 x 2160 (extended mode), x2 external USB3 Hard Drives, Logitec USB3 video camera, audio out. When I first set it up, I wasn't getting power through the USB-C connector but all peripherals were running fine. I ran the Surface Diagnostic tool from Microsoft and it didn't show any problems but I found that I was now getting power through USB-C. It's a great docking solution for Surface Book 2

Great product

I honestly don't see why everyone is having so much trouble with this dock. There are very clear instructions that come with it stating you must update your computers BIOS before using this. Just head to the Dell website and download the BIOS update, as well as the wd15 Firmware Update Utility driver, and the Realtek usb audio driver. After i installed those 3, this thing works exactly as it's advertised to. I use it to connect 2 external hard drives, a usb receiver for wireless mouse and keyboard, headphones, and 2 monitors. It has worked flawlessly for the month that I've used it, and to my surprise, it also charges my dell XPS 15 while powering everything else connected to it. I can't be the only person who received a working unit, just follow the instructions and you should be fine..

WORKS WITH OTHER BRANDS TOO!

Dell is love, dell is bae, I think I'm becoming a dell fanboy. I recently bought a Dell Inspiron 15 7000. I was quite disapointed that it only had one hdmi output. So I decided to get this docking unit. I saw this product in dells website. I was quite scared that it would give me stupid problems and stuff but no! It was just plug and play with my Dell laptop. After playing with it for a while I decided to try it with my ASUS N56VZ (has usb 3.0) . I plugged in the usb cable and turned on the computer. I had two HD displays connected to the dock. Nothing appeared on the screens. But interestingly usbs were working fine. I just went to the device manager and saw that the there were yellow triangles! I clicked on them and chose updatee software. BAM everything works. I CAN EVEN USE THIS WITH NON DELL COMPUTERS. DELL IS BAE. Im so happy! Cons Works plug and play has 5 usb ports ethernet 2 hdmi 1 display port and other ports... just look at the desc quite small. comes with two hdmi cables and one hdmi to dvi adapter Has a sound card inside which is better than my laptop's realtek one. Cons Plastic kinda looks cheap I heard that it cant output 4k at 60fps. But didnt try yet. I'm definitely going to buy a dell product again since they didn't make this hardware support only dell computers. This kinda stuff builds trust to the brand.

Works perfectly if you keep an open mind about what you are trying to use it for.

I purchased this dock with the mind that its not for video processing/video playback or gaming(but, I'm able to have two 1080p video's running on different screens with no issues.) This type of box makes it easy for telecommuting, when all I need to do is connect a single USB 3.0 cable to my laptop to connect everything up (and makes it easier to switch to my own personal laptop at the same time) I am using three monitors @ 1080p for each monitor. Bad thing I just found: Audio - I couldn't just plug in a set of speakers (Wouldn't detect) and had to use a splitter cable to allow me to plug in regular speakers. I used the following one and it worked fine for audio out - StarTech.com Headset adapter for headsets with separate headphone / microphone plugs - 3.5mm 4 position to 2x 3 position 3.5mm M/F

Finally, a dock that works on Linux, USB-C, and charges my computer

Finally, a dock that works on Linux, USB-C, and charges my computer. I have tried 4 separate docks, Dell's TB15 and TB16 and two from Plugable. The TB15/16 were truly awful products. Each had their own problems: disconnecting the video, dropping Ethernet speeds, garbled audio ports, USB disconnecting, overheating, weird conflicts with strong WiFi signals. Pretty much everything that could go wrong with those docks did. The Plugable docks actually worked *wonderfully* and they have great customer service, but their products are misrepresenting compatibility with the ability to charge an XPS 15 9550 through the USB cable. Their docks that claim Linux compatibility worked great, but I had to keep the power plug into the computer. I wish I would have tried this dock first. On to the WD15. I'm running Ubuntu 17.04 with kernel 4.12. All BIOS updates have been applied, as is critical for any USB-C/thunderbolt functionality to work on these recent Dell machines. For the most part, that means installing Windows to apply the updates. While BIOS updates can be applied from DOS, dock updates MUST be done from Windows. So expect to install WIndows 10 (I recommend Rufus to install it on an external drive) to get everything working. With all updates applied, this thing works AMAZING. I only power a single external display, but I use nearly all ports: HDMI or DisplayPort both work fine, I've got ~4 USB ports occupied, audio out the front port, and ethernet. All work, no drivers or special downloads needed for the dock itself under Linux. I've run the internal and one external display both with the nVidia (running nvidia-381 package) and Intel graphics (with drivers installed from 01.org). All the usual hoops of getting something to work on Linux aside, this dock works great. Audio has been completely consistent (a near miracle). Even with my XPS 9550 power demands, charging through the USB-C port works. It doesn't seem to have any power charging issues as the Plugable docks did. The dock even seems to work okay with sleep and resume. Although occasionally I do have to unplug/replug after a reboot. Some times the second display does not immediately wake up, but a quick trip to the Displays control panel or cycling through the display options with F8 fix the issue for the duration of the session. The only small issue I've had is that external USB hard disks seem to start up and spin down repeatedly when plugged into the USB ports and the computer is asleep or unplugged. This does not seem to be a Linux issue because it happens even if the computer isn't plugged in. For now I'm simply plugging it in after the computer is awake or whenever I need to do a backup.

Works on MacOS too!!

I have been looking for a soultions to use three monitors on my MacBook Pro for a while now and I haven't even considered this. I ordered it for the dell e7350 and it works as described. I was pleasantly surprised however at the fact that all I needed to do was grab mac drivers from the display link website to make this work! Such a happy camper right now.

I'm pleased with it.

I recently purchased a few Windows 10 Dell 7480 laptops and these are now the norm, since Dell has come away from the standard docking station that you set your laptop down onto and it attaches. This now plugs right into a port on your PC. Pretty simple. I am using the PC now with two monitors and the laptop display all open and using them separate from one another (extended desktop mode). I had to perform an update after installing the driver from the supplied USB stick that they give you and the screen blinked a few times and then started working just fine. I've been using this for a little over 2 months with only that one weird initial instance. Works good!

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