Reddit mentions of EVGA 200-DP-1301-L1 Display Port Hub

I can tell you it works great as a desktop replacement because that's EXACTLY what I did!

I run mine with two external monitors using this DP hub:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HK8V5KE/ref=oh_details_o02_s01_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

...and I also have this USB hub:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00IJU0K2Q/ref=oh_details_o02_s01_i03?ie=UTF8&psc=1

...which has a built-in gigE port. I also picked up a 64Gb uSD card for a little expanded storage:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007WTAJTO/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

On top of that, I picked up a 1Tb external USB3 HD from Best Buy for around $50, though I'm not actually using it now.

I of course have a proper keyboard and mouse attached. The only thing missing from the equation is the docking station, but that's pre-ordered.

Yes, the whole setup was pricey (around $1700 all-in for the 256Gb i5 model, plus $200 for the dock later) but it's allowed me to replace my desktop AND laptop that I sometimes used with one very portable and capable package. I'm VERY happy.

I use it primarily for various forms of software development, which tends to be more demanding than typical use... I can tell you it has performed flawlessly in this role for me the past few weeks. Everything I've thrown at it so far has worked as expected and with excellent performance. I've done some video editing on it too and that's been fine as well.

It's also not bad for the somewhat limited gaming I do. I still play the original Halo and Postal 2, but nothing more demanding. I've run all the 3DMark demos on it too and it perform well up until about two versions ago, so my take is if you're looking for games no newer than about 2-3 years ago you're going to be fine, anything newer might not work out as well (at best you'll likely have to crank settings down). If you want better gaming I'd suggest the i7 is what you want... better GPU in addition to the CPU bump. I originally planned to get that but I got impatient :) The i5 has been fine for me though.

As an alternative to daisychained monitors, you can get this.

A DisplayPort MST Hub is not the same thing as a splitter.

>DisplayPort 1.2 added support for Multi-Stream Transport (MST), enabling multiple monitors to be used via a single DisplayPort connector. This function requires either monitors that are capable of DisplayPort 1.2 daisy-chaining, or use of a DisplayPort MST Hub.

You can do it with an MST hub like this: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HK8V5KE

Just use a miniDP to DP cable from the docking station to the hub. I've had the best success with Cable Matters cables: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00APLJ58M

I'm talking about a device like This

at that price you might as well try your luck with a mst hub like the one from EVGA

Did this ever take off? There should be at least a few displayport hubs like this one that allows you to split a single output. There are also usb-c to dual displayport adapters out there, although I'm curious if any of these can still carry USB. If not, you could still get something that takes a thunderbolt input and has at least one displayport 1.2 and one USB 3.0 output and then use the splitter.

assuming you meant this one: http://www.amazon.com/EVGA-Compliant-Multi-Stream-Displayport-200-DP-1301-L1/dp/B00HK8V5KE

there are two reviews the state the SP2 do not work with this device. No feedback on if the SP3 works.

Thanks for the recommendation, though, I found something a bit cheaper from EVGA (which I've always had good experiences with) http://www.amazon.com/EVGA-Compliant-Multi-Stream-Displayport-200-DP-1301-L1/dp/B00HK8V5KE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1411526460&sr=8-1&keywords=EVGA+1.2a+Compliant+Multi-Stream+Displayport+200-DP-1301-L1