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    New R500 coming home tonight! Need help with dock

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by coyote_5, May 21, 2009.

  1. coyote_5

    coyote_5 Newbie

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    Like the title says, I bought a new R500 and also the advanced mini dock. I'm a bit annoyed that the dock only has one ps/2 port. I want to plug both keyboard and mouse to the dock.

    The dock does have 4 usb ports, but I need those for the printer, 2 external HD and ipod/other media. The printer is a usb only output as well.

    I see that there are keyboard/mouse ps/2 to USB dongles but that doesn't help. Any suggestions? I couldn't find a USB to parallel either which would let me take the printer off one of the usb ports...
     
    coyote_5, May 21, 2009
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    pepclub Notebook Consultant

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    Add a USB hub?
     
    pepclub, May 21, 2009
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    Lew Notebook Deity

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    jonlumpkin NBR Transmogrifier

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    I have a few of these lying around myself. They were quite popular in the mid 1990s as many notebooks only had a single PS/2 port and USB did not yet exist.
     
    jonlumpkin, May 21, 2009
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