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You don't have enough bandwidth to run more than one 1080p monitor; but it has ports for 3. This means your video out is going to have to be compressed reducing quality and adding additional latency on top of the inherent penalty from using USB instead of native video out. Add gigabit networking and you're trying to push 9-10gbit/sec over a pipe that only offers 5 on paper and less in reality.
If I'm paying the business class premium for a laptop I want real business class features like a native dock (eg the Latitude series) that isn't crippled.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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You have your point.
Still I think, it depends on your needs. If you use the docking to connect a single 1080p monitor, network and a couple of usb devices (read mouse and keyboard) it should be sufficient.
And this all said from a person writing from a Dell Precision M4800 and Dell E-Port Plus Replicator PR02X.
“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser men so full of doubts.”
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You'll still have a latency hit from the USB itself. It was really bad with USB2 video; and I'm skeptical that USB3 will have improved it enough that it's not noticeable any longer.
Written from an E6430 and the mid level E-Port (can't find the exact model; it doesn't have USB3 or your model's legacy ports, but it does have more than the basic one Google is turning up).
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Sincerely I have never tried a USB one, but a while ago my company laptop was a MBP late 2011. And I have received a Belkin Thunderbolt™ Express Dock, which is based on, guess guess, Thunderbolt interface.
I had attached to it a GbE, Dell 2711 WQHD monitor, and a couple of usb devices. All worked as a charm, had no lag or any sort of problems.
That's why I think that for a simpler scenarios a USB3 could be enough.
“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser men so full of doubts.”
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Thunderbolt has direct displayport pass through. Half the pins on the cable were carrying a displayport signal; the other half were used for thunderbolt data for everything else. USB3 docks have to package video data into USB packets and then decode it at the other end. You get overhead from the un/packaging; combined with USBs focus on being as cheap as possible requiring dumb as a sack of hammer controllers that need the CPU to do all their heavy lifting. Thunderbolt (and FireWire before it) controllers are able to do almost all of their IO without needing to bother the CPU: It's why they could offer much higher QoS levels. It's also why they're so much more expensive.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: You'll still have a latency hit from the USB itself. It was really bad with USB2 video; and I'm skeptical that USB3 will have improved it enough that it's not noticeable any longer.
I use a first-gen Surface Pro (i5/4GB RAM) hooked up to a Plugable UD-3000[^] USB3 dock, in which I have three 1920x1200 monitors hooked up through USB-VGA adapters. I've played separate fullscreen 1080p videos on each monitor simultaneously, and it's pretty much flawless.
USB2 is a no-starter for fullscreen video, but USB3 seems to be fine.
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Indeed!
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Any organization is like a tree full of monkeys. The monkeys on top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but assholes.
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This looks like to be a laptop for me!
Thanks
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Excellent info here, I am currently doing some research and found exactly what I was looing for.
jenifer lopez
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What is your budget ?
Will you move your laptop everyday (more than twice per day)?
Will you use the battery or will it be always plugged in ?
Is touch screen really needed/useful ? (IMO, for a laptop it not really practical)
I'd rather be phishing!
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Not quite your specs - but it's an awesome machine - oft referred to as a portable desktop:
I bought a refurbished DELL PRECISION M6500 - a 17" screen.
Mine is a lowly model, i5, two HDD's, only 4GB RAM - there are other models with more RAM, i7, 4 Memory slots.
A 17" screen model has some serious heft - but in exchange you get a great keyboard that feels like a real keyboard;
This is for real work.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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If the RAM's non-upgradable (not sure how far this is blighting business class laptops, it's endemic in consumer models) I'd lean toward 16GB to give headroom if you end up running more than a few instances of VS or VMs at one time.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Surface Pro 3 has all that and a bit more.
I have the Pro 2. i5 8gb ram 250gb HD. I have the Power Cover Keyboard for the extra battery. IT gets nearly a day and a half of extremely hard usage and doesn't let me down.
Highly recommend it.
It is a bit expensive though.
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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I have a Dell XPS 15 and I love it. It's 5k rather than HD.
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This one[^] suits me fine.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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BTCI provides banking solutions to BARCLAYS bank . But can anybody tell in which technology this company works ?
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Yes: anyone who works for BTCI in their IT department probably could...
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Really helpful info..
Thanks Dave
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But that would involve research - and that's work! 
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... it's a classless society.
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Real classy sir.
MMM, well being classy you must have class and as such it must mean that you are a drop-in? 
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Well, drop-outs are actually making the really money! Talk about Gates, talk about Mark!
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Oso Oluwafemi Ebenezer wrote: Talk about Gates, talk about Mark!
It's a very low percentage gamble; not a smart play.
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Well played sir, well played.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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