Docking station for MX7515

Just bought the MX7515 a few days ago....using it mainly as a desktop replacement...
Wondering if there are any preferred docking stations for this model? Any help would be appreciated.

 

I would get just a USB hub or better yet a notebook cooler with a usb hub built right in. One costs only $25.00 Canadian. http://www.powersonic.ca/psweb/index.htm
You can have your usb keyboard, mouse, scanner etc left plugged in the hub and when you want to dock your laptop just plug in the power, hub and monitor and you are good to go. I'd get another power supply as well just for when you are docked.

 

Thanks for the info/suggestions Blear.... however, I also need a parallel port for an older HP laser printer, as well as, i'll have to re-connect external speakers everytime i dock....that's why i was thinking about a docking station... any thoughts?

 

Just a usb to parrallel adapter. Und plug in the speakers as needed. I guess if you really wanted, you could get usb speakers or a usb sound card. I don't believe that the MX7515 has a special plug for a docking station as did my old Compaq.

 

Excellent... thanks for the quick help ! Didn't even know a notebook Cooler existed !
I'll try that solution out.

 

There are also (Somewhat expensive) USB style hubs you can get, that do the whole shebang (video/sound/port replication/etc). They're around $140US in stores, probably cheaper online. I think Targus makes the one I've seen.

 

Thanks Rennyn... that's pretty much what i'm looking for..... i'll search on Targus and see what i find.... if you can post links to specific products that would great.....

 

Found these 2 Targus options....any thoughts?

http://www.targus.com/ca/product_details.asp?sku=ACP50CA


http://www.targus.com/ca/product_details.asp?sku=PA095C

 

bump for some comments?

 

I know it's been a while...

But both of those Targus Products should work just fine. The only thing I would suggest is hooking up the monitor directly if you're going to do any game playing, I'm honestly not sure how well a USB connection would handle that throughput.

Aside from that though, they both offer a nice, easy one plug solution for coming home and adding keyboard/mouse/printer/whatever with a single connection.

 

I tried the larger Targus model (with video).... and everything worked great, except for the video.. it was horrible.... i guess that's expected with all the ports flowing through one usb to the notebook....

I returned the item, because it was much higher priced due to the video connection (which i couldn't use)....

I'll probably try the smaller targus model next.... although it's also missing the speaker connection (not that big of a deal i guess)

 

Ok, so I found this model by IOGEAR.... looked pretty good.. has what i need... (GUD201)



Everything seemed to work ok, except for the Ethernet jack.. recognized in XP ok, but for some reason, it doesn't seem to pickup a valid IP address from my Linksys router.. I tried manually setting the IP address as well, but still unable to make the network connection work......