"Dell™ Latitude™ D620 and D820 portable systems and Dell Precision™ M65 and M90 mobile workstations with NVIDIA NV110m or NV120m graphics cards lose the external display settings after undocking. "I run circles around my colleagues in terms of efficiency," Muller says.
This gives him the power of a desktop at both places and the freedom of having a laptop to take anywhere-and for less money than buying three computers.
UNDOCK DELL LAPTOP SERIAL
You're linked to your mouse, full-sized keyboard, monitor, printer, and other serial devices."ĭavid Muller, a senior research and development engineer for Akashic Memories Corp., uses a docking station at work and at home. "With a docking station, you can walk back to your desk after a trip, set the notebook down, push a lever, and you're instantly docked. "When (portable computer users) come back to their desktop, they are really key on not having to plug in five to seven cables because that's time-consuming to them," he says. There are a number of reasons why people might want to use docking stations, Gonzales says, but it boils down to instant access, flexibility, and an extended office environment. Sorry, I am stuck at this point, but am sure, between yr pro activity and pundits here, this will get figured out.
Is it that the exdternal monitor is hooked up to the VGA port in the docking station and it is convenient to leave it that way rather than, if U use the lappy mobile-I am assuming that is necessary in yr work- having to hook it and unhook it?Įdit: Just found below, I get it now, as I suspected. I am not questioning the need for the external monitor.that is none of my business I was wonderihng why U need to use the laptop IN THE DOCKING STATION with the externl monitor hooked up and, apart from the neat angle it affords, the advantages of this?Īs opposed, that is, to the laptop on A/C power out of the docking station with the external monitor hooked up?