Move every peripheral onto the monitor and one cable crosses the desk to the laptop. The charger, network dongle, USB hub and video lead all disappear into the screen. The Dell Pro 24 Plus P2425DE takes that job on at R6,099.
A cluttered desk is usually four separate problems disguised as one: a charger brick, a USB hub, a network dongle and a video cable, all fighting for the same small patch of desk. Folding all four into a single USB-C hub monitor clears the desk in one move, and the Dell Pro 24 Plus P2425DE takes that job on at R6,099.
Move every peripheral onto the monitor and one cable crosses the desk to the laptop. The charger, network dongle, USB hub and video lead all disappear into the screen. The Dell Pro 24 Plus P2425DE takes that job on at R6,099.
Before fixing the clutter, it helps to see exactly what is contributing to it.
A common laptop desk carries a charger brick and its cable, a USB hub or dongle for a keyboard and mouse, a separate network adapter if Wi-Fi is unreliable, and a video cable or adapter to an external monitor, plus whatever cable management is trying and failing to contain all of it. Each of those is a separate lead crossing the desk, 4 or 5 separate things to plug in every morning, and a separate thing to accidentally knock loose.
The Dell Pro 24 Plus P2425DE absorbs each of those roles into one chassis.
Downstream USB ports on the monitor take the keyboard and mouse permanently. The RJ45 socket replaces a USB network dongle entirely. Up to 90W of USB-C Power Delivery replaces the laptop's own charger brick for most business machines. All of it, plus the video signal, travels down the single USB-C cable that connects the laptop to the monitor, so unplugging that one lead when you pack up disconnects everything at once, and plugging it back in the next morning reconnects everything at once too.
Clearing the clutter changes more than how the desk looks.
With one cable instead of four or five, cable management becomes a single lead to route rather than a tangle to hide, which is especially useful on a desk that gets shared or repurposed for other things outside work hours. A gaming desk with built-in cable routing makes the single remaining lead even less visible, and the wider comprehensive cable solutions range covers clips and sleeves if you want to tidy that one cable further, which matters more once there is only one lead left to actually be proud of. The office monitor range lists other panels offering this same hub functionality if you want to compare.
Putting an actual number on the change makes the improvement concrete rather than just a general impression of tidiness.
A typical laptop desk before a hub monitor arrives has a charger cable to the wall, a USB dongle or hub cable, a network cable or Wi-Fi adapter, and a video cable or adapter to an external screen, which is four separate leads crossing the desk before counting the keyboard and mouse cables themselves. After switching to a hub monitor, the laptop side of that count drops to one: the single USB-C cable connecting it to the screen. The keyboard, mouse and network cable remain, but they now plug into the monitor as fixed connections rather than travelling with the laptop, so the moving, daily part of the setup genuinely shrinks from four cables to one.
For most business laptops charging at 65W or 90W from the factory, yes. Heavier workstation laptops may still need the original charger for demanding tasks.
You can usually retire it. The monitor's downstream USB ports take over keyboard, mouse and similar low-power peripherals directly.
The opposite. Running the network cable into the monitor's RJ45 port instead of a USB dongle is generally more reliable, not less.
For a typical single-screen setup with a keyboard, mouse and network cable, yes. A desk running multiple monitors or many peripherals may still need a dock alongside it.
No. Consolidating everything onto one properly rated USB-C cable carries the same video signal, data and power as separate cables would, without any loss in quality.
Start with whichever cable is the most tangled or the most frequently disconnected, usually the laptop's own charger, since replacing that single connection often gives the most immediate sense of a tidier desk.
Ready to clear your desk down to a single cable? Count the leads currently crossing your desk, then see how many the monitor's own ports absorb.
For most business laptops charging at 65W or 90W from the factory, yes. Heavier workstation laptops may still need the original charger for demanding tasks.
You can usually retire it. The monitor's downstream USB ports take over keyboard, mouse and similar low-power peripherals directly.
The opposite. Running the network cable into the monitor's RJ45 port instead of a USB dongle is generally more reliable, not less.
For a typical single-screen setup with a keyboard, mouse and network cable, yes. A desk running multiple monitors or many peripherals may still need a dock alongside it.
No. Consolidating everything onto one properly rated USB-C cable carries the same video signal, data and power as separate cables would, without any loss in quality.
Start with whichever cable is the most tangled or the most frequently disconnected, usually the laptop's own charger, since replacing that single connection often gives the most immediate sense of a tidier desk.
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