Hi guys!
I need some help and suggestions. Today I have the advanced dock for my W520, but it has showed to be utterly flaky. Everytime I reboot it I need to do tricks and fixes to get both screens to work, to get usb peripherals to connect and so on.
Now I am thinking of getting one of those USB 3.0 docks where you insert just _one_ cable and ready to go. I am wondering; as a desktop setup I have two Dell monitors with hdmi/vga/display-port connections. Which of these would work for my setup? As far as I can see there are none with dual display port, though one with D-DVI and a regular DVI, but I am not sure that would work?
Would really appreciate some help. Cheers
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Choosing the right USB 3.0 dock for my W520 - please help.
Choosing the right USB 3.0 dock for my W520 - please help.
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Re: Choosing the right USB 3.0 dock for my W520 - please help.
If you think youre getting two dell monitors over usb 3.0, youre in for a little surprise. You MIGHT be able to manage a small monitor <1600x900 but two is not going to work. You need a dock because 2 monitors over USB 3.0 will run at a super laggy and its awful. Put it this way, you could run your car on tiny 10" tires but it bumpy and awful compared to normal 17" tires.
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The efficiency of two screens equally sized with equal numbers if pixels are equal. The time spent by a 4:3 user complaining about 16:9 is proportional to the inefficiency working with a 16:9 display, therefore the amount of useful work extracted is equal.
The efficiency of two screens equally sized with equal numbers if pixels are equal. The time spent by a 4:3 user complaining about 16:9 is proportional to the inefficiency working with a 16:9 display, therefore the amount of useful work extracted is equal.
Re: Choosing the right USB 3.0 dock for my W520 - please help.
No USB3 dock will be as reliable as a dedicated Mini-Dock / Mini-Dock Plus. It won't provide power either, so it will be at least two cables. You may have a flaky dock, but they are not all like this.
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Re: Choosing the right USB 3.0 dock for my W520 - please help.
Thx guys. I kinda suspected this. I tested one of those usb>hdmi gadgets like five years ago and they also used quite a bit of CPU power. I guess my next post will be on how to fix the Gremlins in the dock...
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