Put that Surface Connect port to good use!
Having purchased a refurbished Surface Book 2 about a year ago, I soon realised that it was short of ports, indeed with just the one USB-C port. The USB-A ports that it does have, do not supply much in the way of power, so devices take an age to charge. What it does have is a Surface Connect port, which I could only use to connect the power supply unit that came with it. I decided a while back that I could connect a Microsoft Surface Dock to Surface Connect port, to give me a usable number of extra ports, but unfortunately, no USB-C ports, which are essential these days. The later Surface Dock 2 looked a better option since it provided 4 USB-C ports, two of which were capable of supporting an external monitor, with the right cabling. The supplied PSU also provided a healthy 199 W of which 120 W are available as power pass-through. The even later Surface Thunderbolt™ 4 Dock wasn't really an option, since it would require the Surface Book 2's only USB-C port, making the Surface Connect port, redundant!
The list price of the Surface Dock 2 was a concern, but the one that I purchased, new, boxed but reported unused, seemed to fit the bill being, well discounted on the new price. It also had nearly a month left of the original guarantee, as I found when I registered the device under my Microsoft account! No real concerns there given the Microsoft build quality, since this is a pretty solid piece of kit!
The best part is that this was one of very few items that I have purchased which was immediately pressed into service, and so far, it has done everything I expected.
Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned