docking station for laptop on small desk

I’ve got a J5 create 3 screen little docking station that sits under your laptop’s base and hooks up to the thunderbolt 4/USB C port. Has 13 or so ports on it and passes power through if you get the one with the power supply.

We use these for our Precisions (running Creative Cloud, CAD, etc) with no problems whatsoever. I use this as my main work monitor and the dock has no issues with it. You can find far cheaper refurbs (like $50 or so), but make sure it's the WD19TB, not just the WD19 (if you're going to run your power through it as well).

Note: HP and Dell docks no longer come with ports for audio (so you'll need to run that through your laptop headphone jack or BT).

I use docking stations daily, and there is a difference. A good docking station will synchronize video much better than a small adapter. The adapters often have latency issues. I have a setup with multiple monitors, a printer, keyboard, mouse, and speakers running into a docking station. The one USB C cord can plug into a Windows laptop or MacBook and work seamlessly.

I know the cheaper adapters will accomplish most of this (I have an adapter in my laptop travel case). However, it's not polished. It's fine every once in a while, but not for a daily solution.

I have a Dell docking station now, but a coworker just got an Anker docking station ( Anker) and it has a ton of features.