[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Waiting for this dock to release for a while and now it's finally here. Everything works as expected, monitors always start up in the same orientation. No issues to speak of. Lenovo has gone with multiple display ports instead of HDMI which is fine but seems opposite of other docks I've looked at.
[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I can't believe how many things I have plugged in to it and then only one cable to my laptop. Ethernet, 4k 60Hz display, Logitech stream cam, and 100W PD all over one thunderbolt 4 cable. I have read that this gets really hot, but I think warm is a better description, and it depends on what you have plugged in I guess. It isn't small, but if you can tuck it away somewhere it won't be an eye-sore. The power brick is also quite big, but it's 135W so that's expected. The thunderbolt 4 cable it comes with feels high quality. No complaints so far, everything was plug and play on a laptop with a Tiger-Lake CPU.
[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Works great for my home work station! Very convenient. It easily powers all of my peripherals (secondary screen, external 1TB SSD, portable scanner, mouse).
[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I purchased it to connect Ethernet and two external monitors to ThinkPad X1 Gen9. The ThinkPad runs Windows 11. Both my monitors are 1K, but it's good to know that support of 8k and 4k is there. The dock has one HDMI and two DP ports. Since DP ports are not quite as common as HDMI or VGA, be aware that you may need to buy an adapter. I'd love to see a VGA port instead of one of DP ports.
After installation, I found that external monitors keep disconnecting after ThinkPad goes to sleep mode, requiring reboot to recover. Luckily, this was addressed by FW update of the dock, BIOS update of the ThinkPad, and Lenovo drivers update. The update did not resolve all problems. For example, my USB headphones keep disconnecting randomly if used via the dock, but work great when plugged into the ThinkPad port. Still, I find the dock operation acceptable.
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting lenovo.com
Customer Rating
1
frequent problems/glitches
on May 31, 2022
Posted by: em2022
[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I had an older version of ThinkPad docking stations, in comparison, this one is really not up to a standard. The biggest problem is that it seems to have trouble rebooting after the laptop went into sleep mode. I started controlling this through the docking station, but still have the problem from time to time. This is serious because the entire point of having a docking station is to have multiple monitors start and work at the same time.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
Response from lenovo.comBy Adrian_Lenovo, Customer Service, June 1, 2022
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