Dell D6000

5owners with an opinion

60%of verdicts positive

3/1positive/negative since 2024

0happy after 3+ years

Praised for performance and reliability; criticized for software.

What people wrote

Doesn’t like it

I just bought my third dock/hub thing. I've been on a Macbook M1 Air for the last few years and wanted multiple screens, so I got a USB 3 hub (Dell D6000) which does DisplayLink. I had almost everything hooked in there, but still connected one screen direct via usb-c. Displaylink is good for an M1 as you can add loads of screens if you want, but you can't watch streaming services on them as MacOs thinks your screen is being 'watched'. I did want a thunderbolt hub but as far as I could tell at the time Thunderbolt and Displaylink just didn't come in the same package, so I was stuck with two cables. Three years on, I picked up an M4 machine that can do two external screens natively, great, I can reach my goal of only plugging one cable into my macbook. But the Dell can't do that on a Mac because of something or other meaning it would work as mirrored-only. Time to grab an actual thunderbolt dock. I picked up an HP TB3 refurb (HP P5Q58AA) which was cheap (30 AUD) and seemed great on paper, only to find it needed a type of power adaptor I didn't have that put me back another 60 bucks, and when I got it all hooked up it didn't always work and couldn't support decent refresh rates on my monitors, with one always being stuck at 30Hz. There was a software update available, but for that you need a windows machine with a TB3 port, not something I have. So then I grabbed a Kensington SD5750T, which was another 140 bucks, but I am pleased to report that it just works and supports dual…

Likes it

I have a Dell D6000 dock, and was pleasantly surprised to find that it powers and charges my M3 Max (14") without needing to use the Apple power adapter (the Apple adapter is 96W, and as best I can tell, the MBP CAN use more than the Dell's 65W, but only if I really push the GPU, which my uses don't)

Likes it

Just want to provide a second data point on the Dell hubs - I have two, one D6000 and one D3100. They're both DisplayLink, one appears to be higher end than the other. While I was using them with the M1 Mac Mini, they were excellent, at least for the 1080p 75Hz monitor I was using them for. Fortunately it was being used as a second monitor to a much larger 4K primary display. I will say that subjectively it sometimes felt like it was running at say, 40-50fps rather than at 75, especially if there was lots of motion, but I never did experience significant artifacts or anything that would have suggested it was not native. This was after installing the proper drivers and all of its optional addons, and this led to a fairly "it just works" experience for me. Monitors showed up under Settings as monitors and didn't disconnect randomly or do anything that caused me to pay particular attention to them. If anyone wants me to test them with something else, I still have them around, so maybe I can try it out if that would be helpful. As for anyone looking for a DisplayLink dock, I would say these work pretty well. You can find them cheap on eBay if you like to do things like that.

Likes it

I have a Dell D6000 USB-C dock that works decently with my MacBook. Monitor isn't detected at first, but I unplug and re-plug and it detects it. There's supposed to be Linux support for the USB DisplayLink chipset but it doesn't work for me.

Doesn’t like it

I was using a secondhand Dell D6000, hoping to connect one 4k monitor natively (dp alt mode) and the rest via DisplayLink. That didnt work, now I’m using cheap docks I bought for ~€50 secondhand from a company called i-Tec (have one at home and one at work). The way I have it set up: the i-tec dock is connected to a regular USB-C hub (from Ugreen). The USB-C hub is also connected to a 4k monitor. This way I connect 1 cable to my Mac and get everything: power delivery, Ethernet, peripherals, 4k monitor running natively and 2 2K monitors running on displaylink. It is… perfect. I havent touched my desktop computer for about a year. Basically it is better to use the Displaylink monitors for static content - running 4K video on a 4K monitor on Displaylink would probably take about 40% CPU on my M1 chip. So everything dynamic goes onto my native 4k monitor, whereas the Displaylink monitors have easier content - browsers, vscode, notes etc. But like, I regularly also play video on my 2K displaylink monitors and honestly I never ran into issues, or noticed a difference. Just dont do this on 4k monitors I guess. Sorry for the delay, still havent figured out a way to get notified about replies on HN.