blog! “Review: WAVLINK DisplayLink - Dual HDMI/DisplayPort adapter”
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The good folk at WAVLINK have sent me their Dual-Screen USB-C adapter to review. Plug it in to a USB-C socket and you now have two extra monitor ports. It'll even work on a USB-A socket, if it is USB 3.0. But is it any good? No. Not really. Hardware It's a fairly chunky…
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@Edent are you comparing different things? The one you're reviewing looks to be a "GPU via USB data" but the cheaper HUB you're comparing it to needs a USB-C port with video output and basically sets the mode and wires it to the connector.
@burtyb
Sure, but from a user point of view there's no difference. My ancient laptop has USB-C and sends dual DisplayPort to a cheap hub using 4k@60Hz.
@Edent the Mini PC I've had for 3 days is the only (non-mobile) device I own which supports video over USB-C 
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@Edent I'm impressed it does 4k, never mind on both screens
@sldrant
My laptop does that via a USB-C dock anyway. Obviously it is harder if you're pushing a movie rather than just a fairly static UI.
@Edent yeah I have a cheaper pd dock but it doesn't do 4k, so I'm surprised that one does as most of the ones I've seen that do are as much as a laptop
@Edent I've been running pretty well with Dual 4K@60Hz DisplayLink in Pop! OS - just in case I want to swap out for my MacBook Air- until very recently whereupon it insists on reverting one display to 640x480. Aargh!
That pigtail cable is criminally short, most pack-in, full-speed Thunderbolt cables are much, much longer now. And you can stick 20Gbps through a 5m cable no problem. Is it so wrong to just put a darn USB-C port on the "dock"!?