Laptops are designed to leave the desk. The friction comes when they return, and you’re faced with a monitor cable, a charger, an Ethernet adapter, a hub for your keyboard and mouse, and whichever SSD you were using yesterday. A docking station solves this by collecting everything in one place and connecting it to your laptop over a single USB-C cable.

The Baseus Spacemate RD1 Plus is a 14-in-1 dock built around that idea, with a few additions that set it apart from a plain strip of ports. It has a built-in 140W GaN power supply, support for a 4K monitor at 120Hz, and a small screen that shows what’s connected and how much power each device is drawing.…