How to use the Microsoft Surface Dock efficiently

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You can convert the ultra-portable Surface device into a full-sized PC to get a real desktop feel. How, past plugging in your Surface Dock with the SurfaceConnect cable. The Surface Dock offers the easiest way to connect a Surface to two monitors. Besides, it possesses plenty ability to support other attached accessories, as it has enough of USB ports for connecting all your favorite accessories.

So, although the screen size of your Surface is express, you do not have to stick with it. You can connect it to a Monitor, HDTV, or Digital Projector and make your photos, videos, and presentations look bigger.

Here are some means via which Surface Dock tin take your Surface a few notches higher.

Use the Surface Dock efficiently

The Dock has two miniDisplayPorts (mDP) which support three screens. This allows you to perform multiple actions. For instance, you can check your emails in Outlook, take notes in OneNote, and attend a Skype meeting without having to switch screens.

The other ports available allow a user to connect his keyboard, mouse, Ethernet cablevision and even external difficult drive. The added capability of USB 3.0 ports makes the process of transferring files a cakewalk since the data transfer rates in USB 3.0 ports are upward to 10x faster than on USB ii.0 ports.

Each USB port cut into Surface Dock has 7.5W of charging power, sufficient for giving life to your prison cell phone and other accessories. The best way to kill boredom is by watching movies. Yous can connect your Tv through a miniDisplayPort of Surface Dock to HDMI adapter and go a life-like experience on a big screen. Moreover, at that place'southward an audio jack for headphones or speakers for instantly transforming your living room into a home theater.

The Dock intends to make your life simpler. How? No need to plug and unplug cables every unmarried time. Only, plug in all your cables – miniDisplayPort (x2), Ethernet, USB (x4), power, and audio in your Surface Dock – and never deal with them once more. To transform your Surface into a Boob tube screen by connecting the single SurfaceConnect cable into the SurfaceConnect port and you are ready to get.

You can use your Surface Pen to marking up spider web pages on Microsoft Edge, draw on OneNote, and create beautiful things on Artistic Cloud even when you have other tasks at hand. For developers, the Surface Dock seems to be an elegant solution for turning Surface into a powerful development workstation. You lot can utilize one external monitor to keep the focus on your lawmaking and use the other monitor to handle whatever open documentation, emulator or apps you're testing.

When you are done with your piece of work, you lot do not take to spend extra time in unwrapping things. A simple tug to the magnetic SurfaceConnect cable and you lot're free to go, says Microsoft.

All in all, Surface Dock empowers you lot to go more done. It is compatible with Surface Book, Surface Pro, and is available for purchase at retail stores, online, and through authorized resellers.

A post-graduate in Biotechnology, Hemant switched gears to writing virtually Microsoft technologies and has been a contributor to TheWindowsClub since then. When he is non working, you tin can commonly find him out traveling to different places or indulging himself in binge-watching.