Re: Universal docking station and Linux

2011-08-29 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com writes: Since no one uses VGA anymore, except for netbooks Surely you meant no one who buys a new shiny consumer grade thing every 6 months or so, and you discount people who need to walk into a corporate conference room and make a presentation.

Re: Universal docking station and Linux

2011-08-29 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Aug 29, 2011, at 9:28 AM, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Surely you meant no one who buys a new shiny consumer grade thing every 6 months or so, and you discount people who need to walk into a corporate conference room and make a presentation. Sorry, Oleg, I thought I was the only one who used

Re: Universal docking station and Linux

2011-08-29 Thread Udi Finkelstein
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 10:20 AM, geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote: The current standard for laptops is HDMI because you can plug it into any TV set, now that everyone has digital widescreen TVs. (or so the vendors of laptops would make you think). HDMI is usable on DVI

Re: Universal docking station and Linux

2011-08-29 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Aug 29, 2011, at 10:36 AM, Udi Finkelstein wrote: On my Lenovo W510 (belongs to my employer ofcourse) there are no HDMI ports - they use DisplayPort instead. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisplayPort#Compatibility_with_HDMI.2FDVI Display port connectors support HDMI/DVI too. Geoff. --

Re: Universal docking station and Linux

2011-08-29 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hi, You might be better of with just a high quality self powered USB hub. Kensington makes a nice 7 port one, and BUG sells them for under 200 NIS. Well, I thought about it. Yet it seems to me that putting the laptop in a docking station is much more comfortable than each time to connect a

Re: Universal docking station and Linux

2011-08-29 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Aug 29, 2011, at 9:42 PM, Dan Shimshoni wrote: Well, I thought about it. Yet it seems to me that putting the laptop in a docking station is much more comfortable than each time to connect a USB mouse and keyboard and connect an HDMI/DVI cable. I would think so too, but the one you should

Universal docking station and Linux

2011-08-28 Thread Dan Shimshoni
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Re: Universal docking station and Linux

2011-08-28 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Aug 28, 2011, at 10:24 PM, Dan Shimshoni wrote: Easy installation and compatible with Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP Version 2.0 compatible with Mac 10.3/10.4. I just want to note that it also says that the current version is 3. Mac OS 10.3 was replaced by 10.4 around 5 years ago (the first