Comment by exmadscientist

Yes, this would have been around 2015. (When I said "Surface Book" I meant the original!)

Docks were bad, bad products in those days. They were no longer the dedicated bulky-but-reliable things of years past, or the modern finally-debugged dongles we've got now.

This was Intel's Alpine Ridge and it was hell. (At least, I think that was the one. Certainly, it was hell!)