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    Advanced dock or advanced mini dock?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by furrycute, Apr 7, 2007.

  1. furrycute

    furrycute Notebook Evangelist

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    The price difference is about $120. Do you guys think if it's worth it to have the full dock?
     
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    What kind of connections do you need. I think for most the Advanced Mini Dock is enough.
     
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    furrycute Notebook Evangelist

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    I probably just need to connect an external monitor, an external keyboard and mouse, and that's probably about it.

    The full dock does have a built in multi card reader.

    What about the construction? Is the full dock better constructed than the mini dock?
     
    furrycute, Apr 8, 2007
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    ken.chang Notebook Guru

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    I don't know the difference in build-quality as I have never laid my hands on Advanced dock. But I do have the mini-dock. I think the only real advantage that Advanced dock has over the mini, is that it has a place to put an additional optical drive or hard drive, IMHO. For the difference in price, I can always buy a USB port multi-card reader for less than $40.

    Mini-dock appears to be well constructed, and it fits well with my R60. I've had no complaint so far about how it functions. In fact, I am very happy with it.
     
    ken.chang, Apr 8, 2007
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