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Mitchell_Yee@jud.ca.gov (Mitchell Yee) wrote:
Greg:
I have my 701 in a Dock II.
You'll need the Dock II - 701 Adapter, which seems to run about $190.
I have mixed feelings about the Dock II. The price you pay for the
expandability includes sacrificing a large portion of your desktop.
The footprint of the Dock II is substantial - it weighs about 30
pounds and has the area of a small desktop computer.
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On the other hand, you gain the option to add one 1" high device,
CD or hard drive, one 1/2 height device (1.5"?) CD or hard drive.
A 1" high CD is hard to find unless you buy an IBM labeled CD
ROM drive. Teac used to (or may still) sell CD drives that fit
into 1" bays. Otherwise, you can add in a normal 1/2 height device.
My configuration consists of a 1 GB SCSI hard drive in the 1" bay,
a JVC 4x2 CD-Writer (4x read, 2x write) in the 1/2 height bay.
I've also got a ISA-10BaseT network card in one of the ISA slots.
Often, there are additional SCSI devices daisychained to the
external SCSI-2 slot.
Summary: it might not make sense unless you REALLY need a CD.
Even then, a better solution might be an add-on, external CD.
On the other hand, if you get one cheap, then do it.
Mike -
I am in the market for a second laptop for my family. We have a 701C now
and I am looking at the 760's and the Dock II. I intend to use the system
in both mobile (ie away from my primary residence (apt)) and "on the road".
For my application, the 760 is a desktop replacement where I could
(hopefully) put a graphics card in the PCI slot and an external monitor for
true desktop replacement. The extra bays are not so important to me - not
as long as there is SCSI available. (Yes, $700 is an expensive case...).
And it would be *real* nice to have the option to stick either the 701 or
thge 760 into the support system.
Questions:
1. What flavor of CD Rom drive does it support ? IDE or SCSI
2. Can one indeed run an external video card in this configuration ?
Any sources for less than full price Dock II's gleefully accepted.
Dave