Our team of expert reviewers have tested a massive range of home and office tech, from the best standing desks to the best monitors for video editing. If your monitor cable doesn't have either of these connectors, you'll need to buy another cable or an adapter. For more info on adapters, go to Connect Surface to a TV, monitor, or projector. Transfer large files to an external drive, connect a USB printer or headset, charge accessories, and more. It works by allowing a user to connect their laptop to other hardware typical of a desktop PC, including a monitor, keyboard, mouse, printer, and external drives. While this, naturally, reduces the portability of your laptop, it does offer the significant advantages provides by a desktop computer, including more comfort and increased visibility provided with a larger screen. Use this port to connect to your external monitor. Depending on your monitor's connectors, you may need a display adapter (sold separately).

If your monitor cable doesn't have a Mini DisplayPort connector, you'll need to buy another cable or an adapter. For more info on adapters, go to Connect Surface to a TV, monitor, or projector. When you need the reliability and speed of a wired network connection, connect your Surface to a wired network using the ethernet port. Extend these displays. Your screen is spread over two screens, and you can drag items between the two screens. Features:Having this many ports accessible, especially for someone with many devices or drives, is incredibly helpful. Not needing to pull out a separate adapter or reader to grab data from a storage drive or SD card is wildly beneficial.

Essential accessories

One other thing to keep in mind here is that support for two 4K displays at 60Hz. Those are as follows: Unplug the Surface from its power supply and remove any attached accessories from your Surface. If you're using a Type Cover, open it so it lies flat. Use this port to connect to your external monitor. Depending on your monitor's video output ports, you may need a display adapter (sold separately).