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USB 2.0 Mobile Docking Station with Ethernet
Reviewed by
Brian Nadel
on 02/11/2005
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The good: Compatible with most notebooks; relatively inexpensive; highly portable; two-year warranty.

The bad: Lacks modem and DVI connections; only two USB ports; software installation required; slow file-transfer speeds.

The bottom line: Simple and portable, the Targus Mobile Docking Station with Ethernet offers a very modest assortment of basic ports, which most notebooks will already have.

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  • Reviewed by:
    Brian Nadel
  • Edited by:
    Justin Jaffe
  • Reviewed on: 02/11/2005
  • Released on: 12/01/2004
The $99 Targus Mobile Docking Station with Ethernet provides the bare minimum of extra ports and works with any notebook equipped with a USB connection, which is almost all of them. There's not enough here to please power users, but the Mobile Docking Station will make it a bit easier to plug in when you get home or give your notebook a modicum of additional connectivity. Weighing just 12 ounces (including its AC adapter), it's certainly portable enough for travel. If you don't need a LAN connection, Targus sells an even more scaled-down model for only $79.

The approximate size and shape of a blackboard eraser, the Mobile Docking Station has a 2-foot USB cable that connects to your notebook. It's nice that you can fold up and stash the USB cord within the body of the Mobile Docking Station, but we wish Targus had incorporated a retractable cable instead. Before getting started, you?ll need to install software from the included mini CD; it takes no more than 3 minutes, but this is the only dock we tested that required additional software.

Once connected, the Mobile Docking Station gives you two USB 2.0 ports, as well as serial, parallel, Ethernet, and a pair of PS/2 connections; it lacks a DVI and modem link. The unit features eight LEDs that light up when the USB hub is linked, when network data is moving, and when each individual port is activated.

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