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Is there a docking station for the M1210?

post #1 of 8
9/11/06 at 10:56am
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My boss is looking at ordering one and asked me if there is a real docking station available for it. I looked around but couldn't find one so I was hoping you guys could point me in the right direction.
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post #2 of 8
9/11/06 at 11:08am
Port replicator is going to be your only option.
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post #3 of 8
9/11/06 at 11:51am
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ugh that sucks.. I wish Dell had a 12 or 14 inch model that also had access to a docking station.
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post #4 of 8
9/11/06 at 1:11pm
I'm in the same boat with wanting a docking station. As well as no "official" docking station, the available port replicators that I could find have either a VGA port plus USB ports OR the legacy parallel/serial ports plus USB but not both. Make sure you do a port inventory before buying. It may be easier to use a USB hub and plug an external monitor directly into the laptop.

Bob
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post #5 of 8
9/11/06 at 2:04pm
Latitudes and Precisions have docking stations or as Dell calls them Advanced Port Replicators.

D420 is the smaller of the dockables but it's lacking good discrete graphics solution. D620 has turbocached Nvidia solution that's not quite equivalent to the m1210.

On the Precision side it's an M65 with a 15.4 widescreen and Nvidia workstation level graphics card (turbocached aswell).
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post #6 of 8
9/11/06 at 4:53pm
I was hoping for an APR on my E1505, but not luck. My 8600 has a APR which I love and use daily. I thought for sure when I ordered my E1505 that it would have had one. All of my previous laptops have had them.
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post #7 of 8
9/11/06 at 9:24pm
Mind you jetmech1 that your previous Laptops were from a time when Dell didn't do much at all to differentiate Latitudes from Inspirons. Your 8600 was a Latitude D800 with media buttons on the palmrest and no trackpoint on the keyboard (different BIOS too). Dell saw no reason to remove the docking connector from the system because it'd mean lower costs since both systems would have almost identical motherboards.

Now Inspirons and latitudes share no parts with each other apart from CPU, RAM, and hard drives (Technically Optical drives aren't different, but an Inspiron's won't fit a Latitude due to the larger faceplate). And most home customers don't care about docking solutions. Business customers want docking because it's too cost prohibitive for them to provide users with a Desktop PC and a Laptop computer.
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post #8 of 8
9/12/06 at 1:44am
I knew Dell had some logic for messing up a good thing. Thanks for the reply.
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