You connect a DisplayLink docking station to any laptop with a USB port. Thanks to the DisplayLink technology, you can easily connect various devices to the dock. Think of multiple external monitors, a mouse and keyboard, or an Ethernet cable. DisplayLink has a chip and software that you can download from their website, so you can effortlessly connect everything to the USB port of your laptop. That's because these docking stations don't rely on a type of USB port. In addition, DisplayLink docks are the only docks that you can connect 2 monitors to an Apple MacBook with.