That mistake was rectified in the Surface Laptop Studio, a high point of Microsoft Surface design.
Microsoft’s integrated miniDisplayPort port within the Surface tablet lineup certainly argued against the need for a Dock, but the USB-C ports that accompanied the 2019 Surface Pro X signaled its eventual end, even if they lacked Thunderbolt capabilities. 7-in-1 Surface Pro 7 Dock Station with 4K HDMI Adapter + 1000M Gigabit Ethernet LAN + 2 USB C 60 W PD Charging + 2 Port USB 3. Instead, Microsoft’s Surface Dock meandered along. Imagine what Microsoft could have offered with a Surface tablet that connected to a Dock enclosure with an integrated or discrete GPU - that could have been one ticket to a Surface gaming PC.
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Although Microsoft concealed the exact capabilities of the Surface Connect port, there shouldn’t have been a reason why Microsoft couldn’t have taken the Dock to new heights, specifically gaming. Our SD7000 Surface Pro docking station was designed exclusively for Microsoft Surface Pro 7, 7+, 6, 5 and 4 using Windows 10 and 11 not compatible with Surface Pro 8 Comfortably position the surface Pro in one of two positions - upright as a display, or lay it at a perfect drafting table angle for painting, drawing, or editing photos. Surface Connect, the flat waferish-connector that provides both power and I/O capabilities to Surface devices, never felt quite properly taken advantage of. (Microsoft also shipped a snap-on dock for the Surface Pro 3 before that, as well as a docking solution for its Lumia phones.) The Surface Dock did what modern Thunderbolt docks do: provide power and legacy I/O expansion capabilities, including the ability to drive multiple high-resolution displays.īut the Surface Dock also used the Surface Connect port, both its boon and its downfall. Microsoft launched the original Surface Dock in 2015, well before Thunderbolt docks emerged as an I/O solution in 20.
It was absolutely years ahead of its time, too. Yes, the Surface Dock cost about the same as a Thunderbolt dock - roughly $200 to $300 - and it also locked you in to the Surface ecosystem But convenience was the key. For years, however, the Surface Dock was to the Surface like IBM’s chargers were to its ThinkPad laptops of yesteryear: a consistent interface that you could keep from one generation to the next.
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