Wavlink docking station compatibility

The XPS 15 uses a 130W power supply regardless of battery size. Watts (for power adapters) refers to energy delivery rate, whereas WHr (for batteries) refers to energy storage capacity.

Using a 60W power source on an XPS 15 will cause very slow battery charging AND severe performance throttling because system will attempt to reduce its power consumption in order to operate within the limits of an undersized power source. Under heavy load cases, it still could end up depleting the battery even while connected, but that is a last resort strategy.

The only docks that can properly power an XPS 15 are Dell’s WD15 and TB16 docks, because 130W is above the 100W official max of the USB Power Delivery spec, so Dell’s docks are doing something proprietary to stretch that a bit. If you get the WD15, you’d need the version that comes with the 180W adapter in order to have 130W available for the attached system. For the TB16, you’d need the version that comes with a 240W adapter. Otherwise, you can use a third-party dock, but you’ll need to also keep the system’s own AC adapter plugged in for proper performance.

In addition to the above, the dock you’re looking at uses a DisplayLink chip for video output rather than tapping into the native GPU outputs wired to the system’s USB-C/TB3 port the way the docks I mentioned above would. DisplayLink introduces a number of significant drawbacks that you might want to be aware of before buying in case they would be unacceptable to you. I wrote up a summary in this thread, specifically the post marked as the answer. The D6000 I discuss in that thread is using the same DisplayLink technology that your Wavlink dock does: https://www.dell.com/community/Alienware/Docking-Station-D6000-Very-Bad-Video-performance-for-gaming/td-p/6193369

Thank you for the response.  I appreciate the heads-up on the Displaylink issue, but I do not think that is going to be a problem for me.  I want to get a docking station for my office. I don't do any gaming or otherwise difficult video rendering with this laptop at my office. I use it mostly for documents and, occasionally, watching low-res videos there.  To the extent that it will be used for gaming, I would use it in connection the HDMI port on the laptop with a single monitor.

The reason I am not too keen on the Dell stations is because none of them have dual displayports for my monitors at my office.

my acer nitro 5 () with anker docking station () and addition charger (i forgot how it calls. I'll send it later) works really good. I'd recommend to use another docking station (maybe even cheaper) but get some good charger