This is the cheapest 12-port laptop docking station that offers 100W power delivery

By Desire Athow
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Aukey CB-C78 docking station - $55.99 at Amazon (opens in new tab)

Aukey CB-C78 docking station - $55.99 at Amazon (opens in new tab)
(roughly £40)
The Aukey CB-C78 Type-C adapter will add more ports and deliver up to 100W of power to any laptop, tablet or smartphone. For a limited period, Aukey is offering a 20% discount - scroll down to the “special offers and product promotions” for more details. 

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Ahead of Amazon Prime Day (opens in new tab), Aukey is offering a 20% discount on a 12-in-1 Type-C adapter (opens in new tab) that is essentially a pint-sized laptop docking station (opens in new tab) - except you just connect it to your notebook rather than docking it.

Aukey is a recognized brand that, together with a few others (e.g. RavPower), has built its reputation and customer base on Amazon. It's unlikely to be a fly-by-night operation, as shown by the two-year warranty offered as standard.

The Aukey CB-C78 is highly affordable at $55.99 (after the 20% discount) and offers 100W power delivery, which means it will even power an Apple MacBook Pro (opens in new tab) comfortably.

You get one Gigabit Ethernet port, a legacy VGA (great for business), two memory card readers, four USB ports (two of them USB 2.0), one USB Type-C data port and two HDMI ports.

You will be also able to power up to three displays (one of them VGA), so our only real complaint is the fact there’s no audio connector.

Note, this docking station is also compatible with recent flagship Samsung smartphones and, in theory, will allow you to run DeX - Samsung’s acclaimed desktop UI that transforms your smartphone into a desktop PC.

TechRadar is rounding up all the top deals over the Prime Day sales period, and we’ve put all the best Prime Day deals in an easy-to-navigate article to help you find the bargains you’re looking for.

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Desire Athow
Desire Athow
Managing Editor, TechRadar Pro

Désiré has been musing and writing about technology during a career spanning four decades. He dabbled in website builders and web hosting when DHTML and frames were in vogue and started narrating about the impact of technology on society just before the start of the Y2K hysteria at the turn of the last millennium.

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