I don't know about local stores, but our house has 3 HP elitebook 2760p notebooks, with 8gb of ram, 160GB SSD, a dock, a slim expansion battery, and on top of that is a convertable tablet with wacom built in, and has the keyboard nub, keyboard light, smart card reader, Sim expansion port, firewire, displayport, vga, 56k, gigabit ethernet, light sensor, 1080p webcam, VGA, bluetooth 3, wirelessN, dual microphones, gyroscope.
We live by PSU, if you want to look at them. On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 8:03 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>wrote: > So at the Clinic yesterday a fine fellow brought in a brand new > Zareason laptop. Very impressive machine. Comes with Ubuntu (among > other options) pre-installed, which it boots in 15 seconds. My appetite > whetted, I checked their website and they offer what I want, except > that I really must have a docking station, and they offer none. A phone > call today confirmed that there will never be a docking station for any > of their computers. Crossed Zareason off my list. But I'm still > shopping. > > Why do I want a docking station? Because I have three USB 2.0 devices > and one USB 3.0 device that I want attached at all times when at home, > plus an ethernet cable. The USB and ethernet ports on every laptop I > have ever seen are on the sides, meaning I would have five cables strung > down the sides of the computer interfering with the papers I have on > the left side and the mouse on the right. This is not acceptable. > > There exist universal docking stations, but they connect via a USB 3.0 > cable, so I still have one cable down the side of the computer, plus > they do not power the computer. > > I am spoiled by the mini-dock that I use with my Thinkpad T61. And if I > buy a new Thinkpad I can get a similar docking station for it. My first > question here is: Are there other laptop manufacturers out there who > offer a real docking station other than Lenovo? > > My second question is: Are there dealers in Portland who sell high end > laptops, e.g., with blue-ray burners, 512 GB SSD drives, Intel i7 CPUs, > and stuff that will probably cost me ~$2000 or more? I bought my > Thinkpad from a company downtown close to PSU, on Clay or Jefferson > west of the freeway, but they no longer sell Thinpads. Are there any > real Thinkpad dealers in town, i.e., not the big box stores? > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
