not impressed

1 display out?

An award for 60hz ? :(

Did it win most expensive?

Does it spy on you?

One display out at 4K @ 60 Hz?

Feels more like 2018 than 2023.

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Only in spy mode (active while docked).

I’m guessing this is an advertisement.

This happened to my when I used a docking station. Never heard about this before. What are these things doing?

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That's bizarre. You'd think you could prevent that with STP, but I don't really know a lot about how these docks are set up. I assume it's just a fancy switch, though.

They will never live this down, and god damn do they deserve it

For a very, very brief moment, I almost thought it would have 675 USB-C ports!

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whoa, OOTL?

(also active while undocked)

I'm not a monitor-stand kind of guy, but have been looking for a good docking station for my laptop. This looks pretty nice.

It says payments as low as $23 with Klarna. $23!! If the payments were $24 lower, they’d be giving you money. You can’t afford not to buy this.

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It's an award given out at CES, not by the person who wrote this article.

I like anker products. Is there a source you have? Could a portable battery charger have spyware?

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It’s a China based company it’s expected at this point.

The f is a monitor stand? Every monitor comes with an adjustable base. Who’s like, ‘what i really need is a base for this monitor so I can shove my keyboard and other crap underneath and make them totally useless.’ OK IM OFF MY PROVERBIAL MONITOR STAND.

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Don’t usually see a period at the end of a title here

It's unlikely a dock would have spyware, but Anker has lost a lot of trust with the recent revelations of their privacy lies with their Eufy cameras.

I was expecting 12 screens when I clicked. Very disappointing

Not sure where is the innovation here. The design is nice, but but it's still uhs I sd card speed and 4k60 single display. Useless to me... Just mount your monitor to the wall and get a caldigit TS4?

Same goes for the iPad stand, I had looked at this model but just got a better hub and a better stand for my tablet in the end.

What am I missing here? What's new and innovative here? Give us a proper somewhat affordable usb4 switch that works, THAT would be innovative.

Some monitors hight adjust would go only so high. Some are still finding it too low, espesially folks with a right posture. Hence monitor arms/stands

How else can my cat sleep under the monitor without knocking over my pens?

I second this. I had never even heard of this product until I saw this post. I’m also tryin to figure out where the true innovation is. It’s just like any other “multi-in-1” products. It would be truly innovative if they would truly have the best of both worlds in one product.

Thought u said penis

I keep those in a bag in my nightstand. Don’t want them to get cat hair on them.

Can’t have that now

Tell me you have bad ergonomics without telling me you have bad ergonomics.

Tbh if you have a machine capable of more than 60 fps 4k you probably don’t need the extra usb slots and such

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>have a machine capable of more than 60 fps 4k you probably don’t need the extra usb slots and such

You under estimate my need for USB slots....

You guys keep yours at all? My wife took mine long ago.

Isn't most of Anker just cables and charging things?

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Just like 1-2 weeks before the news broke I had to decide on a drop in battery powered home surveillance solution, and I was so close to choosing eufy, went with ring in the end cause if somebody wants to watch me naked inside my home they better be free and American!

Only 2 USB-C ? useless...

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Youd be surprised how many posts there are that are just people trying to advertise without paying Reddit.

"Im making this game!"

"AFTER X YEARS, IM FINALLY A PUBLISHED AUTHOR!"

I'm a network engineer and deploy a lot of docks/hubs for clients. I look a look at this thing and will give it high marks for design: one of the big issues with multi-monitor setups on laptops is the laptop screen blocks the monitor due to the power delivery/dock cable only being 3ft long. It's pretty well thought out and I like the port placement.

The fail here is only one video port. In my experience 3-4 USB A ports at most are used (USB C is used for charging phones occasionally, but few use it for devices). Ethernet is a must, but the SD card readers are never used. The audio jack is 50/50.

If they would have added an HDMI port and a Display Port outlet, removed some of the useless stuff, and included adapters to switch between HDMI and Display Port, they would have had a winner.

For right now, stick with Plugable for corporate docks. Dell's PD docks are pretty good too.

My duuuuude! Look in to fixing your desk setup.

You could end up with carpel tunnel or something else. Monitor stands, monitor risers, and monitor mounts are fantastic for ensuring your posture is proper! Stay healthy, ya know?

A ton of monitors don’t have adjustable heights, just adjustable angles.

It's about Eufy (Anker brand) and their cameras. They deserve all the shit in the world over it and hope they have to payout over it, but I still use and will use their batteries and cables.

In terms of docks with power delivery and port options this pricetag is reasonable.

All my C levels have ditched multiple monitors setups for curved ultrawides. 3 x 8.5x11 with no wasted screen real estate in a smaller footprint.

Curved monitors are still out of the budget limits of most of our clients. We haven't had an order for any yet. We're mostly deploying 22" or 24" bezel-less HP Elite Displays.

In what world do you need more than 60 hz for 99% of "office work"? This isn't designed for gaming. And no one is going to benefit from running 240hz in Excel and Powerpoint.

Yeah, I'm fine with Independent creators sharing their work. Not so cool with established brands doing stuff like this.

If you click the Amazon link at the bottom, it leads to an entirely different product. And the monitor stand launches at the end of the month for $250. So this article is wrong in just about all of the ways that matter.

A subsidiary of them who made home security cameras was caught for uploading video when they claimed they weren't

So Facebook never does this?

And Amazon never does this?

Personal data is valuable. When corporations have it, there is temptation to sell it.

Trying to pin that temptation only on a single race or country, might be maybe missing the point a little bit, maybe.

Exactly.

You would expect

first display output at 4k @ 60 Hz

second display output at 8k @ 60 Hz

That would be future-proofing a little bit, and definitely much more useful for 2023 and 2024.

I think ethically, anyone trying to advertise on a platform that charges for advertisement, should, you know; play by the rules.

Reddit is free for a reason.

Idk, it's a social media platform. User posts are already the product. I don't really see a difference in someone posting an opinion of theirs vs something they created. Maybe posting "hey buy my game" isn't the best look, but sharing something they made to users who might have an interest in their product is fine with me.

I can post advertisements for what I made on Facebook or Twitter, they also have ads. Reddit just allows the creator to select a larger, more likely to be interested, audience for their post beyond their current following. (Obviously some subs have rules against this to stop the constant postings, but I don't think it should be against Reddits rules in general.)

Needs a display port or 2

Its disingenuous as a news article tho. Its claiming its the best. And it looks like shit. Not just hey we built this product. But advertisement using psychological manipulation. Unethical

I literally said companies shouldn't do it. Read. Independent creators who are making things on their own dime/time are just like you and me, and should post what they want. Anker has an advertising department. They shouldn't be doing it.

I run at least 2 external displays, even on docked laptops. A single monitor dock and stand doesn't get me very far.

I do like the simplicity of one less thing cluttering my desk, but only lifting one monitor is of limited utility to me.

Those companies will tell you they are collecting your data. Eufy said their cameras were local storage only (people shouldn't be required to know how push notifications get sent to their phones) then ended up not encrypting it to the point of users in other countries getting access to people's home feeds.

And US companies are different?

This is equivalent of a wine winning an award

Eufy specifically marketed their product as keeping al, your data in your home, then sent images to the cloud, and allowed anyone in the world to CONNECT TO ANY CAMERA WITH JUST VLC, WITHOUT AUTHENTICATION. And then when the news broke, they flatly denied it, when it was trivial to show it was true. They could barely have handled it worse.

Not upload, live streaming, without any authentication, so ever worse.

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Oh wow thanks /s

I guess you've never worked in a corporate environment.

I do, but until these are handed out for free— IDAF

Without authentication, as long as you knew the serial number for that specific camera (and the serial numbers are non-sequential 16-digit alphanumeric strings that would take longer than the age of the universe to guess).

IIRC there were only 65536 possible urls, but off the top of my head I can’t remember the source I got that from.

The URL included the serial number (with 8 million-million-million-million possibilities) plus a 4-digit code (65536 possibilities), but a lot of tech reporting these days is a giant game of telephone so many article did incorrectly say that there were only 65536 possibilities.

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