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    D630 docking station

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Dema80, Mar 29, 2008.

  1. Dema80

    Dema80 Notebook Geek

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    Hi all, I was looking for a docking station for my D630.
    I have seen the D/PORT on the dell site, but it's a little pricy for a port replicator.. and it misses a firewire port.
    Basically, I want to dock my laptop and get:
    - external DVI screen
    - external hard-disk (firewire)
    - external mouse-keyboard.

    Are there any third-party manufacturers that sell compatible docking stations?
    Thanks!
     
    Dema80, Mar 29, 2008
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  2. Cestuila

    Cestuila Notebook Guru

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    Hi,

    I'm afraid a 3rd party dock station would have to be through USB... therefore you'd use all the advantage of the Firewire port...
    D/port will however meet your needs of DVI and mouse/keyboard, and you can use your laptop's Firewire for the hard drive, but I guess that is not as comfortable as you hoped...
     
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  3. Dema80

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    Not so comfortable, you are right. So the only option I have is to buy the D/dock (the larger one) and put a PCI firewire card in it? Feasible, but way too pricey...
    So the D- connector is dell proprietary?
     
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    I would think so, but I haven't tried to dock my D630 on other brands' docking stations...
     
    Cestuila, Mar 29, 2008
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