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February 8th, 2018 11:00
XPS 13 9360, two external monitors?
Hi,
Is there a possibility to add two additional monitors on this laptop? Now i work with one extra screen, with the following hub. "Dell Network Adapter DA200". Is there any possibility, any other hub who can handle 2 screens instead of 1?
Laptop: XPS 13 9360 (i7 7gen)
Regards, Ian
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February 8th, 2018 12:00
Sorry, I missed that you wanted a HUB that could handle two displays, by which I presume you mean a device that has two display outputs and other things like USB ports, wired Ethernet, etc. I'm not aware of one, and if I had to guess, the reason is that hubs like the DA200 are designed to be portable, and typically people don't plug into dual display setups with a travel hub, so there may simply not be enough of a market for it. Of course you could use something like that MST hub and then get a USB-A ("regular USB") hub that handled the rest of your needs. And just in case you get the idea while shopping around, you may notice that some travel hubs include a USB-C port on them. That is often intended only to allow the system's AC adapter to be plugged into it so that the hub can pass power to the laptop, but even if it supports USB data devices, it will NOT provide video output, so for example you would not be able to connect that MST hub to a travel hub, and the travel hub to the PC in order to get dual displays out of the MST hub (or even one display out of the MST hub).
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February 8th, 2018 12:00
You have several options, with different capabilities in terms of the number of displays they can support, total amount of bandwidth that will be available for the attached external displays, portability, and cost
- A DisplayPort MST hub that uses a USB-C connector, like the StarTech MSTCDP122DP. This will give you the bandwidth of a single DisplayPort 1.2 connection, which would be enough for a 4K display at 60 Hz or 2x 2560x1600p displays, or even 3x 1080p displays if you have attach another MST hub to one of this hub's outputs or have a display that supports DisplayPort daisychaining.
- A Thunderbolt 3 to Dual DisplayPort adapter, like the StarTech TB32DP2T. This will give you a DisplayPort 1.2 connection for each port, so you can handle dual 4K displays at 60 Hz.
- The Dell WD15 dock, which will handle up to dual 1080p displays since it offers only half of a DisplayPort 1.2 connection (because the other half of the USB-C connector that COULD have been used for video is instead being used to support USB to drive the rest of the dock's components).
- The Dell TB16 dock, which will handle up to dual 4K displays at 60 Hz and even some triple display configurations.
- A variety of DisplayLink adapters that plug into regular USB ports and give you DisplayPort, HDMI, or VGA out, but DisplayLink adapters have some drawbacks.
Also note that with the first two options, if your displays do not use DisplayPort inputs, you may need to buy ACTIVE adapters to convert between DisplayPort and HDMI or DVI rather than the more common (and somewhat less expensive) passive DisplayPort adapters. It's possible that the MST hub I mentioned first supports passive adapters (StarTech would probably tell you if you emailed their support), but the Thunderbolt 3 to Dual DisplayPort adapter definitely requires active adapters.