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    Docking Station Targus

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by pdcjlw1, Jun 4, 2010.

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    My brother has purchansed a Dell Laptop Inspiron. It doesn't come with a docking station and he would like one. Dell quoted a Targus docking station that plugs into the USB port. The docking station then supports 4 usb ports (for like the keyboard, mouse, Printer, ect) and also two video ports. One VGA and one DVI. All this is supposed to work just fine with only One usb port plugged into the laptop. It seems like there is gonna be a slow down in response expecially if he does something with demanding graphics. The laptop has a seperate Graphics card and I figure that he will be loosing at least some resolution by runing it through the usb port instead of the graphics port. Dell has said their would be no problem. Does that make sense? Running a keyboard, mouse, printer, and video through just one usb port on the laptop? Does anybody have experience with this type of docking station and how well it really works?
     
    pdcjlw1, Jun 4, 2010
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