Dell WD19TB Thunderbolt Docking Station with 180W AC Power Adapter (130W Power Delivery)

Does not seem to be designed by people who might actually use it. Most annoying, the thunderbolt cable comes out of the left of the dock and the DELL laptops that I have all have the Thunderbolt port on the left... so no matter what you do, the cable has to wrap around the dock or wrap around the laptop, in which case it is barely long enough. Also, this needs a USB hub to go with it, as it only has 2 USB3.0 ports, one in the front and one in the back. Unless this has changed recently, DELL laptops need driver updates to support Thunderbolt, so this does not work out-of-the-box.

I struggled trying to get my 4k monitor working using cheaper dongles that came with my laptop and bought on Amazon. The best I could achieve was 4K at 30hz. I finally laid down the change for this dock and now I can run my 4K display at 60 HZ via USBC connection to the monitor. Dell XPS 17 9700.

I have this for my work laptop connected to my widescreen monitor. It allows me to connect anything and everything to the laptop. Traditional USB, USB-C, DisplayPort, HDMI, Thunderbolt connections.

Great docking station that allows me to have my two external monitors and the laptop monitor all working, and additional ports help a lot. A more expensive than a simple port replicator with extra USB’s, but it does a great job.

This docking station did everything I needed. It is fully compatible with my Dell laptop. The only downside at first was that it is crazy expensive. Now it turns out that the NIC has failed. the rest of the device still works, so I am using a USB adaptor for the internet connection.

Product works well. It is a little bit big but I knew that before buying. The thing I do not like is the loud and sudden fan noice that lasts for some seconds...I wonder why they did not use the same hardware to make a better heat management system, and perhaps turn on the fan for more time but on lower speeds....

One of the best docks in the market. Works equally well with HP, Dell and MacBook Pro and even iPad Pro (12”)... If Dell would add SD/MMC card readers this would makes the absolutely best dock.

Tried the CalDigit USB-C Pro dock first based on the Wirecutter review, but it didnt have enough power (only 85W) to support charging the laptop (via USB-C), and other functions like ethernet were unstable. The Dell WD19TB dock charges the laptop and adds lots of additional ports through the single USB-C cable. Has been working well for the past 2 months. Note that the dock supports Thunderbolt. My Dell 7501 model doesnt have Thunderbolt so it shows a warning at every boot that the full functionality of the dock is not available (e.g., higher USB-C data speed). A minor nuisance. Glad I found it!

I ordered the WD19TB that has the audio connector. What I received was the WD19TBS which is the updated version where they removed the audio connector. As far as I could find to read on the differences, the absence of the audio connector is the only difference. So now I was thinking I would have audio connected with my dock, which is very important to me, and do not because the item I got is not what is described. The item even looks different, of course.

The 130W output was needed to power my Dell XPS 7590 (15). That power requirement limited my docking station choices. I found this station works very well (maybe better) with less-power-hungry devices such as the Dell XPS 7390, a 2019 MacBook Pro, HP Envy x360s, HP Spectre x360s, LG Gram 17s, and an older Lenovo Flex 5. These devices range in power requirements from 60 watts to 80 or 90 watts. Its good to have one dock that can power them all. Generally speaking, reliable. Re-connecting a running machine works about 80% of the time. The other 20%, the ethernet doesnt work. That issue is fixed by rebooting the laptop with the docking station connected. Notes about the video outputs: The HDMI output can only be used stand-alone. The preferred video outputs appear to be the two DisplayPorts. If you do not have DisplayPort monitors, you can get DisplayPort to HDMI converting dongles for $5-$10. My two external monitors have different resolution: one 4K; the other, FHD (i.e.1080P). I could not get both monitors to work reliably using the two DisplayPorts. After trying various cables & dongles, I found a reliable setup to be use the first DisplayPort for the 4K monitor, and use the USB-C multi-function DisplayPort on the back for the FHD monitor. I use a QSee USB-C to HDMI converter with the FHD monitor. The DisplayPort issue might be a limitation I did not heed, with either the docking station (some stations only support two FHDs or *one* 4K) or with the laptops graphics card* (*although it looks to me that laptop GPUs are not used *at all* with external monitors. I have not been able to get *any* laptop GPUs to show usage unless displaying only through the laptops built-in screen.) Overall, the WD19TBs high power output makes it a versatile choice, as you are unlikely to come across a laptop requiring more than 130 watts input power. The WD19TBs connections work fine. Note I also have a Dell WD19 - the non-Thunderbolt version of this docking station. It has the same output power, and also works perfectly with all of the devices mentioned earlier. You might not need the pricier ThunderBolt version here if you are simply connecting monitors and devices. The advantage of Thunderbolt is 2x data transfer speed, which, from what Ive read, only adds value with high-end media editing using external drives.