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> > > > > I find it strange that Apple's Powerbook and Duo series have several dock > > and accessory options, yet there are none for the Thinkpads. Why no third > > party port replicators, battery chargers, batteries(!) or AC adaptors? > > > > What I'd really like to see is a mini-dock with SCSI on it. The regular > > dock may be semi-portable, but I really don't need all that..... The > > additional PCMCIA slots on the Port Replicator2 don't make a lot of sense > > to me personally. > > > > What seems really strange to me is that the ThinkPad itself is > impecably designed and built like a rock, but the Docking bay is garbage. > If you open the cover and look at the ridiculously shaped speakers, you > find a cheap half-dollar sized speaker like you'd buy at Radio Shack for > $1.50. I was also genuinely annoyed when I purchased a very expensive > digital storage oscilliscope ISA card and found that the power supply in > the Dock I was unable to power it. Finally, the construction of the > Dock I itself, as well as the locking mechanism belongs on an Acer laptop, > not on an IBM ThinkPad. > > I guess they drew straws and the first-string engineers got to design the > ThinkPad, and the summer co-ops designed the Dock I. Well...actually, Toshiba was responsible for the Dock I. Don't know if that's the case for the Dock II.