Anker’s new desktop docking station has a removable USB-C hub you can take with you

You tin region the dock’s smaller hub utilizing an eject fastener connected top. | Image: Anker

Anker has released a caller docking presumption that eliminates the  occupation of having to take betwixt portability and a plethora of ports. The 13-in-1 Anker Nano Docking Station includes assorted USB and video ports truthful you tin rapidly link a laptop to aggregate monitors, but its astir utile diagnostic is simply a small, portable USB-C hub that ejects from the beforehand of the dock to grow your laptop’s connectivity portion you’re distant from your desk.

The Anker Nano Docking Station is available done the company’s website for $149.99 oregon astatine Amazon, wherever it’s presently discounted to $119.99 for Prime members. It’s a overmuch cheaper alternate to the $399.99 14-in-1 Thunderbolt 5 dock Anker released earlier this year, but it does travel with immoderate show limitations.

The caller dock connects to your laptop implicit USB-C, but that larboard needs to enactment some DP Alt Mode and Power Delivery to entree each of its functionality and usage it arsenic a powerfulness source. The dock supports a solution of 4K / 60Hz erstwhile connecting a laptop to a azygous monitor, but the solution drops to conscionable 1920×1080 / 60Hz erstwhile connecting to 3 displays utilizing the dock’s 2 HDMI ports and azygous DisplayPort connector. And portion Windows users tin show thing antithetic connected each 4 screens (including the laptop’s), for Mac users the dock tin lone reflector what’s connected their laptop.

The docking presumption besides features a 10Gbps USB-C port, a 5Gbps USB-C and USB-A port, 2 slower 480Mbps USB-A ports, a 1Gbps ethernet port, a headphone jack, and SD and microSD representation paper slots. The removable  hub, which is simply a spot smaller than a recognition card, tin beryllium ejected with a fastener property adjacent erstwhile the dock is connected to a laptop. It takes the dock’s 5Gbps USB-C and USB-A ports with it, on with the representation paper slots, and includes its ain dedicated HDMI port, a USB-C larboard for connecting a powerfulness source, and a USB-C jack for attaching the hub straight to a laptop without a cable.