T60 docking station?

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T60 docking station?

#1 Post by Outlaw » Sun Oct 19, 2008 3:56 pm

Can any of the 3 docking stations run multiple monitors? I don't need it to play games just run MS office and photoshop.

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#2 Post by basketb » Sun Oct 19, 2008 9:31 pm

You can attach 2 external monitors to both, the Advanced Mini Dock and the Advanced Dock; one via VGA port and one via DVI port (but in this case you cannot use the Thinkpad LCD). I don't have any experience with the third one (the Essential Port Replicator). But as far as I know, it lacks the DVI port, maybe you can still connect a VGA screen to it and another one to the Thinkpad's VGA port directly, but I wouldn't know whether this actually works.

As a BTW: you can install a PCIe graphics card in the Advanced Dock and add two more external monitors (= 4 alltogether), if you feel the need :wink:.

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#3 Post by basketb » Mon Oct 20, 2008 4:28 pm

Forgot to mention the following, which I also posted as an answer to a similar question in another thread:
Note that the integrated graphics models support all docking functions except DVI-D - at least according to the official specs. Though I seem to remember to have read that people reported success in getting the DVI to work with the integrated graphics models as well.

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#4 Post by dr_st » Tue Oct 21, 2008 2:30 am

The integrated graphics can run DVI just fine on the T60/T61. The Tabook confirms it and so does my personal experience.

Apparently, the GMA950 on the Z61t can only run DVI on the latest models (the ones with C2D, October 2006).

I have no information regarding the R series.

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#5 Post by yak » Tue Oct 21, 2008 2:44 am

So you say that all T60 with GMA 950 provide a working DVI through the dock? How sure are you about this?
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#6 Post by Outlaw » Tue Oct 21, 2008 3:40 pm

I have the ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 card in my T60, I'm looking to run two 19" LCD's with a docking station.

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#7 Post by dr_st » Wed Oct 22, 2008 9:30 am

yak wrote:So you say that all T60 with GMA 950 provide a working DVI through the dock? How sure are you about this?
I am sure that I have a T60 with a GMA 950 that provides DVI through the dock.

I also know that the Tabook lists all T60 models as providing DVI pass-through support.

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