Marshal's DVD Power Up Dock includes room for HDD, Bugs Bunny jokes

If you're still waiting for NU's DVD/HDD docking station to make its appearance at your local purveyor of flimsy-feeling netbook accessories, perhaps you'd instead prefer to wait for this new, less wedge-shaped one from Marshal. Called the DVD Power Up Dock, it sports a DVD drive with the requisite plethora of reading and writing options plus a 2.5-inch SATA HDD and, finally, a USB hub with the least possible number of ports: two. It's listed as being compatible with Windows and naturally there's no mention of price or availability, but that would ruin the surprise.

[cntanw @ Jul 1st 2009 8:33AM]

瘾科技怎么注册啊？实在没搞懂耶~

[skyblaze @ Jul 1st 2009 8:46AM]

yup. i totally agree :)

[Smart People Play Tuba @ Jul 1st 2009 7:57AM]

I see what you did there.

[Magallanes @ Jul 1st 2009 11:38AM]

no, you don't

:-P

[nasserb @ Jul 1st 2009 7:58AM]

Is this a trustable device?
sometimes Chinese products are not working at all!

[strider_mt2k @ Jul 1st 2009 8:06AM]

I wouldn't let it date my sister, if that's what you mean.

[Tes @ Jul 1st 2009 8:13AM]

What...like probably all the electrical products you own?

[Torokun @ Jul 1st 2009 4:08PM]

It's probably made in China.

But the box texts are in Japanese (+Kanji)

[G @ Jul 1st 2009 8:02AM]

What's up dock?

[Templarian @ Jul 1st 2009 8:27AM]

Reminds me of the Cyanide and Happiness comic yesterday

http://www.explosm.net/comics/1720/

[G @ Jul 1st 2009 8:45AM]

That was the first thing i thought of too :)

[strider_mt2k @ Jul 1st 2009 8:05AM]

Well DUH.
The other two USB ports are running the HD and the DVD!

You don't think they actually did anything more than cram a regular 4-port hub in there, did you?

Silly.

Now make it available barebones and I'm SO in. -I have extra drives I can populate this with myself.

[Mike @ Jul 1st 2009 8:47AM]

You know what would make it even better?

1. Put an 8GB flash disk into it that supports readyboost or that I could use as a linux partition.

2. Make it barebones (other than the cheap flash) space.

3. Have a model with an add-on battery (like a long stick one).

But for right now, this is pretty good. Just lemme know whose DVD drive is in there....

[versionII @ Jul 1st 2009 8:14AM]

Be wary of the next engadget gift bag give-away.

[nasserb @ Jul 1st 2009 8:15AM]

my room is full with dozen of those gadgets... the majority of them aren't even working...
thanks Chinese markets!

[Tes @ Jul 1st 2009 8:15AM]

All netbooks should have a purpose built dock like this (I assume this connects via USB) with video out to a monitor.

[vivi @ Jul 1st 2009 8:19AM]

This is an another Chinese crap by some local manufacturer, durability is a big question.

[Steve @ Jul 1st 2009 8:33AM]

Another Jalan Imbi special.

[10minutehobo @ Jul 2nd 2009 8:17AM]

I miss Lowyat :(

[SonicEarth @ Jul 1st 2009 9:37AM]

I get it. Because Engadget is owned by AOL, who is owned by Time Warner, who owns the rights to Bugs Bunny. I see what you did there.

[Vorp @ Jul 1st 2009 9:53AM]

Man, and here I was hoping for a laserdisc dock for laptops. Proportionally that's gotta be close to what it would look like.

[TavisJohn @ Jul 1st 2009 11:05AM]

OK If you have a netbook and you want one of these you purchased the wrong machine in the first place.

This device totally ruins the whole point of a NetBook.

[common sense @ Jul 1st 2009 12:02PM]

Looks like the #4 Family Special...Does it come with an egg roll and chopstix?

[Ray @ Jul 1st 2009 1:13PM]

You made me laugh engadget. It was a guilty laugh, but a laugh none the less. Bravo!