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Docking Station to imput from laptop to monitor
jugularvein
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in Hardware
Hi all quick question,
So I recently saw the Henge Dock for macbook and thought wow thats a pretty nifty idea. Now I have a republic of gamers laptop(I know its huge) but was wondering if there is something similar I can use for a windows computer.
Now I know that I can do a VGA cable, and if so doesnt the laptop have to be up and running. I liked the hendge dock since the laptop was closed while still being able to upload it onto the monitor.
Any help would be great.
Thank you
CPU-HP Omen 17.3" Laptop i7 12 GB AMD Radeon RX580 1 TB Hard Drive
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From a cursory look at the site, my guess is that it has nothing to do with Mac versus Windows, but depends only on the precise placement of various ports on the left side of the laptop. The idea is that rather than having to plug in a few things one at a time, it lines everything up so that you press the laptop down into the slot and it plugs in several things at once.
I don't see any reason why a company couldn't make such a thing for any other laptop model, provided that it has the suitable ports. However, I do see reasons why they wouldn't do so: not enough market for it. If two laptops are slightly different shapes or place ports in slightly different locations, you'd have to have a separate model for each. Try to make one for all laptops and you need many hundreds of models, not just five.
Furthermore, people who buy a Mac are also the sort of people who will buy peripherals like this. It doesn't matter how many people buy some particular PC laptop if none of them would be willing to pay $60-$75 to save a few seconds on plugging in cables.
Would the laptop have to be on to make it work? Yes, of course--whether it's a Mac or a PC. There could be some details about how your laptop responds to closing it while it is on, and whether it can still output to an external monitor from that state. You'd have to consult your manual, as I have no idea how your laptop works.
You could probably build your own, though. Line up the ports you want exactly where you want them, and then cut some pieces of wood positioned to hold them in exactly the right spot, and nail it all together. Maybe add duct tape to give it more of a ghetto mod vibe.
lol,
thank you for the reply. Ya i thought it was a pretty neat feature but trying to stick a republic of gamers laptop in it really isnt happening. Now to make a ghetto one thats a whole different story. Maybe one of these days they will make a "universal one" just wasnt sure if anything like that was allready on the market.
Thanks for the reply and have a great day
CPU-HP Omen 17.3" Laptop i7 12 GB AMD Radeon RX580 1 TB Hard Drive
If Asus keeps exactly the same laptop shape and port locations for enough years and enough models, then someone might well make such a docking station for your particular laptop. I don't know what's out there.
But a universal docking station that works with all laptops regardless of shape, size, and port types and locations isn't terribly practical.
A few companies like Dell do docking stations, lots of guys have laptops at my work and basically Dell laptops have a special adapter on the bottom. This wont help you much unfortunentely as due to the varying shapes of laptops there wont be any generic style dock stations. But lets be honest a few cables on a desk wouldnt kill you, never really seen the need of docking stations tbh but heh thats just me
Yes, there is a good use for docking stations. That's why Dell and other manufactures support this for business directed models of their laptops.
I do agree that use for a high end laptop a dock station isn't necessarily in the best interest for vendors to produce.
The reason MACs have this type of dock is simply because all macs are made exactly the same. If you have a macbook pro then all macbook pros have the same configuration. With Windows machines there are so many different manufacturers. Some of the manufacturers do have docks but again this is mainly for business models laptops.
There are things like this. Targus Universal Dock and a few others but here is the problem with them.
1) They use drivers that are added on to the baser driver set of the laptop
2) Video goes through the usb connection and is actually another adapter than the onboard so it degrades the ability for gaming and so on.
@ Killrane - i was talking of the home personal use rather than business regarding the use of docking stations and their benefits. For the sake of 30seconds of plugging stuff in at home i dont see the point, but you are quite right at work where it is not so good to have half a dozen cables free in a moving office isnt so good.
Im not sure what your trying to get at here but I frequently use a 42' Bravio LCD on my lenovo ideapad Y460 laptop via HDMI, here is a video of me demostrating it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3jSDG7SXmY&feature=plcp.
I wouldnt use connect using VGA though as you can only use low resolutions. Iv never heard of a docking station for a Asus G series laptop.
Theres many different docking stations you can use with laptops, heres one of them just looking breifly http://www.amazon.com/Plugable-Universal-DisplayLink-1920x1080-High-Speed/dp/B002PONXAI/ref=sr_1_2?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1335666376&sr=1-2.