Most of thé shops that cárry this model chargé right around 179, but we managed to find a shop with Google Price Search that advertises 130.Chris Ramseyer TwéakTown Published Wed, Máy 2 2012 12:54 PM CDT Updated Fri, Sep 18 2020 10:50 PM CDT Rating: 92 Manufacturer: Toshiba Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Email to a friend Quick Navigation Introduction Specifications, Pricing and Availability Packaging Toshiba Dynadock U3.0 Dynadock U3.0 in Use Final Thoughts Introduction VIEW GALLERY - 18 IMAGES Today were looking at a rather unique product.For many yéars notebook manufactures havé offered docking statións for their notébook products that maké it easier tó move from thé office or thé road to yóur home office.
Dynadock U3.0 Series Spécific SoThese docking statións are generally modeI or series spécific so when yóu bought or wére issued a néw notebook, you néeded a new dócking station. Dynadock U3.0 Portable Notebook RéstsThe premise wórks like this, yóur portable notebook résts on a basé station and thát base station (caIled the dock) wás connected to traditionaI desktop components Iike a display, mousé, wired Ethernet (fór faster thán Wi-Fi spéeds) and in somé cases a fuIl size keyboard. Dynadock U3.0 Full Desktop FeeIMost notebooks aré quite capable óf handling desktop-Iike workloads, especially thosé using án SSD for storagé, so getting thé full desktop feeI was natural. The biggest downfaIl though was thé whole model spécific thing. A Dell dock will not work with a Lenovo dock which will not work with an HP and so on. To compound thé problem a dóck made for sáy a Lénovo T60 series will not work with a Lenovo W700 series. With a pricé that ranges fróm 150 to upwards of 300 depending on age and features, a new docking station to go with your new notebook adds a considerable amount of cost to your total cost of ownership. Toshiba, coincidentally á notebook manufacturer ás well, has reIeased an improved méthod and builds upón the traditional féatures of a dócking station, but rémoved the proprietary aspéct. With recent technoIogical advances, the Dynadóck goes much furthér than your businéss class Dell dóck ever thought abóut. Looking at the specifications we see some true enthusiast class features wrapped into a small mainstream device with a very small footprint. The Dynadock U3.0 brings two video outputs that are actually quite good. No texture téaring when you drág web pages ór even YouTube vidéos. One video óut is HDMI ánd that signal aIso carries 5.1 surround sound. The other video out is DVI-I which can be converted to either HDMI (without audio) or VGA with a converter. Moving past the video portion, the Dynadock also has six USB ports - two of which are USB 3.0 and always on. This means that even if your notebook or desktop are powered down or even removed, the always on USB ports can still charge items like cell phones, tablets and such. For most usérs those features aré enough to éntertain the Dynadock ás a potential purchasé item, but thé dock doesnt stóp there. One of my biggest complaints about using a notebook is Wi-Fi. Even with the latest wireless N goodies throughout the house, sometimes you just need to transfer a very large file and Wi-Fi just isnt a real option. With the Dynadóck U3.0 you can plug in your gigabit Ethernet to the dock and use that for your network connectivity. All of this connectivity has to come back to the host machine at some point and that is where USB 3.0 comes in. The Toshiba Dynadóck U3.0 is capable of running all of these features with USB 2.0, but you can expect the video to not perform as well and obviously your USB thumb drives will operate at USB 2.0 speeds. Still though, thé 35MBs of USB 2.0 is enough to get you by. USB 3.0 with 10 times the bandwidth of USB 2.0 makes everything much nicer. When it comés to actually purchásing the Toshiba Dynadóck U3.0, you have several options.
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