Kensington's Notebook Expansion Dock with Video

by Evan Blass, posted Jun 6th 2006 at 9:15PM

Just as we anticipated, Kensington has released that laptop dock we heard about a few months ago featuring Newnham Research's "NIVO" technology for connecting external monitors through a USB connection. Using only one USB hook-up to your notebook, the wedge-shaped (for keeping your machine cool) Notebook Expansion Dock supports multiple USB devices, Ethernet networking, desktop speakers, and a monitor as big as 17-inches at 1,280 x 1,024 pixels and 32-bit color. You can start turning your laptop into a desktop replacement immediately, for $180.

Filed under: Laptops, Peripherals

Tags: desktop replacement, DesktopReplacement, dock, kensington, laptop, Newnham Research, NewnhamResearch, nivo, notebook, notebook expansion dock with video, NotebookExpansionDockWithVideo, video over usb, VideoOverUsb

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Derek @ Jun 8th 2006 8:18AM

targus has been making this for the past 5 months, http://www.targus.com/us/accessories_connectivity.asp

And it is 129.99

D

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B @ Jun 8th 2006 12:02PM

The difference between the Kensington and Targus pieces is that the Targus only supports up to 1024x768 @ 16-bit, while the Kensington supports up to 1280x1024 @ 32-bit. Well worth the price premium IMHO.

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Alice @ Aug 31st 2006 10:05PM

Kenshington is better than Targus in terms of performance with external monitors. I've had problems with Targus being sluggish on my external monitor but Kenshington seems fine.

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MB @ May 31st 2007 3:19PM

I bought this thing a while back and finally connected it to my Inspiron notebook after I bought a Samsung monitor. The monitor came with a standard VGA cable, but I have no way to connect it to the dock. Do I have to buy a special adapter to plug into the USB port? It has a 9 pin male port which I can't connect to either. Am I missing something?

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David Swett @ Feb 22nd 2007 5:26PM

BEWARE: If you have VISTA... A call today to tech support revealed that KENSINGTON does NOT offer Windows Vista support on this product. Driver will install but display does not work....

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grover robinson @ Apr 29th 2007 8:20PM

does kensington plan to add a driver for Vista for the notebook expansion dock?

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Leslie @ Nov 5th 2007 10:27AM

there is a update for the driver at the following site
http://us.kensington.com/html/12118.html

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