Re: OT: Questions about (buying and) using a laptop docking station

[rhkramer@gmail.com]

Thanks to all who replied, to either this thread or my other related one, 
"Speed of USB ports on Inspiron 1501".

In that other thread, I point out that I decided to buy a Wavlink 3.0 docking 
station (with HDMI, DVI, and VGA video outputs) (on sale today at Newegg) and 
a dual USB 3.0 ExpressCard on ebay (for under $10).

Thanks to Dave Christensen for pointing out the throughput I'd need for VGA 
1080p (187 MB/s at 30 fps) -- I'm hoping that won't really be a problem as I 
don't plan to use graphic intensive applications on the laptop, although I'm 
not sure whether it will be a problem -- I'll be using things like kate, 
kmail, and then command line stuff to work on some programs.