Dell DA300 Type C Mobile Adapter - Black
- Product Description
- It connects to a 60Hz 4K display via a DP or HDMI port and enjoys crisp and clear visuals without compromising on performance. Supports single display at a time
- The only USB-C adapter with built-in cable management and a round, coaxial cable that delivers a reliable connection with enhanced signal integrity
- Small and round shape, the compact adapter fits neatly in your bag, while the concealed cable can be extended or retracted by rotating the adapter's top and bottom covers for easy storage
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- Shipping Weight
- 0.08 Kg
- Shipping Dimensions
- 8.99 cm x 8.99 cm x 4.44 cm
4.89 reviews
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Theo E. Used for: 1–3 months
Pros
Every socket a strange meeting room can throw at you
Cons
Video is one output at a time
Comment
Every port I have needed so far, in something that fits a jacket pocket
Leo M. Used for: More than a year
Pros
Runs a 4K panel and gigabit ethernet off one port
Comment
One cable to the Dell and the whole desk wakes up: 4K panel at 60Hz on the DisplayPort side, wired network, keyboard and mouse on the USB-A. It has lived in the docking drawer at home for two years and has never once needed a driver, a firmware update or a reboot to sort itself out. Not once! Warm to the touch under load, never hot enough to worry about.
Grace N. Used for: 6–12 months
Pros
One adapter covers every room in the building
Cons
Needs a replug after the laptop has slept
Comment
Good bit of kit with one habit that stops it being five stars. If the laptop sleeps with the adapter attached and a monitor connected, about one time in four the display does not come back when you open the lid, and the only fix is pulling the USB-C plug and pushing it in again. Everything else is excellent: solid aluminium, the wrap-around cable stays wrapped, and the Ethernet has been rock steady at a full 1Gb on a very busy office switch. Ten months in and the plug is still tight in the port, which is more than I could say for the plastic dongles it replaced.
George B. Used for: 3–6 months
Pros
Feels like it will outlast the laptop
Cons
Heavier in the bag than the plastic hubs it replaces
Comment
Third adapter I have owned and the first that feels like machined metal rather than a moulding. It is heavier in the bag than the two cheap ones that died before it, and I will take that trade every single time
Poppy W. Used for: 1–3 months
Pros
Six ports in something the size of a beer mat
Comment
Slides into the laptop sleeve alongside a Latitude and adds VGA, HDMI, DisplayPort, Ethernet and both flavours of USB without a brick or a mains lead. The VGA is the reason it is in the bag at all, because half the meeting rooms on our site still have projectors from about 2011. It drops to 30Hz if you push HDMI to 4K, so I run the desk screen at 1440p and leave it alone.
Amelia C. Used for: More than a year
Pros
VGA, HDMI and DisplayPort, so no meeting room defeats it
Cons
Only one video output works at a time
Comment
Bought after turning up to a client boardroom with an HDMI-only dongle and finding a VGA projector bolted to the ceiling with its cable taped to the table. This has every socket that room could have thrown at me and it lives in the front pocket of the bag permanently now. Worth understanding that it is one video output at a time, not three: plug HDMI and DisplayPort in together and you get one picture, not two. For a mobile adapter that is fair enough, but people do buy it expecting a dual-screen dock and it is not that. Two years of two or three site visits a week, dozens of unfamiliar meeting rooms, and it has not failed to bring up a picture once. Windows needs nothing installed. On a colleague's MacBook it wanted a restart before the Ethernet appeared, which caught us both out.
Charlie S. Used for: 3–6 months
Pros
Wired ethernet in a hotel is worth the price on its own
Cons
The captive lead is very short indeed
Comment
Hotel wifi being what it is, the Ethernet port on this has paid for itself twice over on client sites already. Plug into the wall socket in the room, laptop on the desk, done. The captive lead is the one gripe: about 8cm of it, so the adapter has to sit right beside the machine instead of tucked behind the screen, and it skates about on a polished hotel desk!
Leo C. Used for: 3–6 months
Pros
Brought a written-off meeting room projector back into use
Comment
The room on the first floor had been written off as unusable because the projector is VGA only and nobody has had a VGA socket on a laptop for a very long time. One of these lives in there now, cable-tied to the table leg, and the room is booked solid again. Picture is clean at 1024x768, which is all that projector will ever do anyway. Cost less than a fortnight of the hire screens we had been wheeling in, and it has not been unplugged since!
Henry A. Used for: 3–6 months
Cons
Gets properly warm when the network port is busy
Comment
Five stars because it does everything Dell claim, but be aware that it runs warm. Copy a big project folder over the gigabit port for 20 minutes and the aluminium shell is hot enough that you notice picking it up. Nothing has ever cut out, and I gather that is simply what a metal-bodied adapter does with a network chip inside it, but if you keep it buried under a stack of paper on the desk it will not thank you. Give it some air and it behaves itself.
