Lenovo ThinkPad Advanced Mini-Dock - port replicator ( 250410U )
The ThinkPad Advanced Mini Dock offers enhanced cable management and connectivity in a surprisingly small form factor. It is ideal for notebook users who need quick and easy access to peripherals but do not require full desktop expansion capability.
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Lenovo ThinkPad Advanced Mini-Dock - port replicator ( 250410U ) Reviews
(You may have to disable the built in display panel to do it, though.I don't think the Intel GMA integrated card can support all 3 at once). I was unsure about this myself, so I am happy to confirm that this product *does* let you use two external monitors under Linux.
I always have my T60 on a laptop cooler that blows air from underneath the laptop. The build is of the same quality as the laptop. And for that purpose, its perfect. I bought this for DVI output. This takes away a little bit from the ease of docking experience. Without the cooler it can only be getting hotter, but considering there hasn't been a recall of any sort, its reasonable to say your laptop is not going to melt, but I still don't like the idea of it running hot. With this dock, the battery is around 42C (not charging and cooler blowing on it). Overall, I feel like the DVI (compared to the jittery VGA on my 24" Dell WFP-2705 some weird conflict with this monitor) was well worth it.
4 more USB ports are nice. Another problem I noticed was that the dock's mic-in seemed to be of poor quality.
The solution to this problem is to just use the audio out built into the laptop. The two problems I have with it is heat and mic-in. Unfortunately, this dock manages to cover up the hottest parts of the laptop.
To give you a comparison, my laptop cooler will keep my battery at 34C (not charging). Can never have enough USB 2.0 ports. The cooler works really well.
For example, anything you put on the mic-in sounds like the gain has been boosted to where it sounds distorted (almost like you have the mic-gain feature selected, and no that wasn't the problem). The price is a bit high, but this is the cheaper way to do DVI on the T60.
2 years ago I bought this product along with my ThinkPad T60 and it worked perfectly without any issues full desktop experience with my laptop before this I always use to have a desktop + a notebook now just a ThinkPad notebook will do 2 years later I upgraded my ThinkPad from T60 to T61 and the docking still works 100% this is a great solution from Lenovo to us ThinkPad owners, all in all a high quality product that deserves more than 5 stars.
Tell that to an engineering who lost an hour or two of work. This docking station will lock up your laptop if you loose power. If you don't need DVI, and can live without the un-docking feature or built-in sound port, I would go with the standard model as it does not do this. If you do purchase this, I would recommend a power supply. We placed a call to Lenovo and they said it is working as designed. We purchased 20+ of these for company laptops and every one exhibited the same behavior.
This product we very frequently bought for nnuestro main client Dominican Popular Bank, which is used to obtain a greater performance in its portable equipment
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