Docking Station with Digital Video Audio for Card Notebook

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 14.7 x 8.2 x 3.3 inches ; 2.3 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000L4H3GO
• Item model number: ACP60US
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
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• Date first available at Amazon.com: November 24, 2006

Product Description

Product Description

The Targus ExpressCard Notebook Docking Station with Digital Video and Audio has a number of features to maximize the capabilities of your workstation. The new ExpressCard technology provides a high-speed interface and has the capability to transfer data up to 5 gigabits a second (Five times faster than typical USB 2.0 docking stations). It also includes digital video and audio connections. Two high-speed, Always On USB power ports remain powered when the notebook is OFF or disconnected making this function ideal for recharging mice, phones and other devices.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Good in concept. execution is flawed, April 7, 2007

By	Albert Wu "aonicc" (Boulder, CO) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I was really eager to get this product. Currently, I have to connect vga, usb (which provides ethernet), and digital sound. This dock promised to cut it all down to one connection, and let me take advantage of my LCD's DVI connector.

Unfortunately, the software is EXTREMELY buggy. I had the gigabit ethernet on the dock hooked up to my gigabit switch, but it would still only link at 100 mbps over half the time. the video out refused to go over 1024x768 unless i did an archaic combination of force quitting txexvga.exe, relaunching it, undocking/redocking, and rebooting the computer, and even then it was unreliable.

Worst off, about 10% of the time, the PCI-PCI bridge didn't load into the computer, connecting all the USB-based parts of the dock (through the USB bus on the expresscard slot) but leaving off the ethernet and the display.

needless to say, after about 4 days of this, i gave up and returned it. in the future, if some other guinea pigs find that the software has improved, i might reconsider buying it, but for now, stay away!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Does not work with windows Vista !!!!!!!!!!, July 26, 2007

By	D. Berberbich "kabookee" (Armonk, N.Y. United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This docking station does not work with windows Vista! I downloaded the Vista compatible driver for the ACP60 from the Targus website. It will not install! I called the Targus tech support and it was a joke. I know as much as they do! Then the guy said that vista has 18 things you have to disable to make it work! I told them to email me the list. He said that there are too many versions of Vista to do that. I will probablly send it back too like the other guy wrote in his review.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Works well, just one small problem, January 14, 2008

By	PC (United States) - See all my reviews

I bought this for use with my Dell Latitude D830 (running Windows XP Pro SP2) and it has worked well for me. I use it with a monitor, speakers, keyboard and various USB accessories. It had a problem recognizing the docking station when booting, but there is a switch on the docking station and once I moved the switch to "On" it worked fine - something to do with the version of BIOS in the machine and it's explained in the user guide that came with the docking station. My only complaint is that the power cord for the docking station is too short. It was not long enough to hang down off my desk and reach my surge protector so I had to buy an extension cord for it. Other than that, the product has worked exactly as expected.