I am happy with the Surface Dock 2, it does what it supposed to do, and the team addressed a couple of customer requests from the first-generation Surface dock. If you connect one of the not compatible devices, nothing will happen except that the Surface will charge. However, there are a couple of limitations:įully compatible with dual 4K monitors at 60Hz: The Surface Dock 2 is compatible with most of the Surface devices. If you want to learn more about the Surface Dock 2 features, check out the Microsoft support page.

The Surface Dock 2 works excellent if the devices I have tried, like the Surface Book 2, Surface Laptop 3, Surface Go 2, and the Surface Pro X. So you can disable ports you don’t want people to use for security and compliance reasons. Speaking about ports, for enterprises, the new Surface Dock 2 also brings more control to manage the different ports of the dock.

Something which can be problematic for people who used the two USB-A ports in the front, to connect keyboard and mouse, now have to use the ones in the rear or use a USB-A to USB-C converter. This is a small but very welcome benefit. With the new USB-C connection, I only need one cable to connect the display as well as the USB hub. In the first version of the Surface Dock, I connected two cables to my monitor, one Mini-Display-Port to Display Port and a USB cable for the USB hub inside the monitor, to connect mouse and keyboard.

The longer Surface Connect cable is very welcome, so I have a little bit more flexibility when I place my Surface in front of the monitor. The Surface just does what it supposed to do. So what are my impressions of the Surface Dock 2? First of all, I had no issues or troubles. The 3.5mm audio jack now supports audio in and out.

The Surface Connect cable is now 80cm vs.The Surface Dock 2 comes with a stronger power supply, to deliver more power to charge Surface devices.The rear Mini-Display ports are now USB-C ports with video display enabled to connect monitors.The front USB-A Ports are now USB-C ports.The Surface team has updated a couple of different features on customer requests. The question I get the most is, what is new with the Surface Dock 2 and the Surface Dock (1).

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