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Strange connector in the bottom of this laptop?

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This is on the bottom of my dad's workstation laptop. It's a Dell Precision 7510. But what in the world is that connector? Pcie? 

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1 minute ago, manikyath said:

thats a good old "dock" connector.

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So what does the dock do? External gpu, storage, etc? Projector? Or all of the above? 

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1 minute ago, MrDynamicMan said:

So what does the dock do? External gpu, storage, etc? Projector? Or all of the above? 

Extra ports, I think that's it.

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1 minute ago, MrDynamicMan said:

So what does the dock do? External gpu, storage, etc? Projector? Or all of the above? 

Mainly storage and ports

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1 minute ago, MrDynamicMan said:

So what does the dock do? External gpu, storage, etc? Projector? Or all of the above? 

as far as i know, the concept is mostly for "office folks" that have their laptop plugged into a whole bunch of stuff (keyboard, mouse, extra displays, power, and so on) when at their desk, but have to be able to "pick it up and leave" without much hassle.

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Just ports and storage, no proper e-GPU adapter here sorry man

 

idk

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17 minutes ago, manikyath said:

as far as i know, the concept is mostly for "office folks"

Was very useful with my lenovo, good to just be able to pick it up and piss off when needed. What didn't help was it being a shitty thinkpad with vista that couldn't multitask.

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4 minutes ago, it_dont_work said:

a shitty thinkpad with vista that couldn't multitask.

those were the days :D

 

at some point i had a HP compaq 6820s and some even older HP laptop kept alive trough a docking station side by side on my desk to do two things at once :P

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1 minute ago, manikyath said:

those were the days :D

 

at some point i had a HP compaq 6820s and some even older HP laptop kept alive trough a docking station side by side on my desk to do two things at once :P

Mine was a 'solution' to a problem, that problem was the company I was at decided it was time to upgrade from 2000, and the citrix client for remote access didn't play nice with vista. So apparently the answer to a software bug at the time was 500million worth of new hardware....

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52 minutes ago, Droidbot said:

WHAT IS THAT VCR LOOKING DOCK 

THAT IS AMAZING

Oh dude that's from the golden age of Macs. 

 

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6 minutes ago, Eason85 said:

Oh dude that's from the golden age of Macs. 

 

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the feel when this came out I was an egg or something

 

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