Very handy - especially if you have several notebooks

I use the dock personally and professionally: you is in my private office and usually I connect my own laptop. At home office days, the private notebook is quickly replaced by the corporate notebook and I have the comfort of the large screen, the right keyboard, mouse, LAN, external hard drives.

Note you only have that in front of the first time you connect the drivers to install. But that was no problem, went on meanwhile 3 different notebooks under Win8 / Win8.1 quickly and smoothly.

After booting, it sometimes takes a few seconds available to the mouse and keyboard. Then, the password must be entered directly on the notebook. A short time later but all the external devices are then ready for use.

The only slight drawback, the one USB3.0 port, however, is due to:
When copying large amounts of data from / to other (s) hard drives and / or LAN performance is still felt in the knee - clear when multiple devices including Monitor use the same USB port..
If necessary, you have to connect the short term external plates directly on the notebook here.