Kensington sd3500v Notebook Dock Unboxing & Overview
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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to learn more welcome to my unboxing and overview of what must be the ugliest box
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that we have ever encountered here and
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not particularly great packaging either this is the
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sd3500 V and it is a lot more exciting
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than its ugly box and ugly packaging with actually indicate so it is a dock
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and you might go oh man really lonus and I'm like yeah it's a dock so what docks
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are good for is expanding well okay what docks were traditionally used for was
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notebooks would have like these proprietary connectors on the bottom of
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them and then you'd like plug them into these docks and you'd get a bunch of
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extra I/O well nowadays docks are a little bit different so this one right
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here uses a single USB 3 Connection so
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there it is right there on the back USB 3 and it adds a butt ton of IO to your
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Ultra Book HDMI DVI Ethernet and four
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USB 2.0 ports so why do we need this and
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the answer is well because notebooks have just completely forgotten about IO
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so this notebook right here is a 15.4 in model from Vio it's super slim super
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sexy and has super HDMI out and two USB
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3 ports and that is it it is incredibly
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frustrating to not be able to plug in like almost anything to it at a time by
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the time you plug in a mouse and like a USB drive you you can't plug in your
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card reader and then you you're just kind of stuck so this one adds all of
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that more like permanently attached Dio at the back so you can walk in plug in
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the single USB 3B cable so it looks a
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little something like this then you plug in that single C to your notebook and
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then you'll have all this io on the back so your keyboard and mouse and
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peripherals can all be already set up and it actually adds two USB 3 super
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speed ports on the front it should be noted guys remember this is not made of
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magic so there's a single 5 gbit per second connection to your PC so
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everything here is going to be sharing it so if you were to hammer everything
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at the same time it would slow down but there's two USB 3 ports at the front as
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well as front panel headphones and microphone in which can be another
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frustrating thing about many Ultrabooks these days is that they're using those
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ah yes the headphone microphone combo
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Jack so if you don't happen to have a device and you don't happen to have an
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adapter or that's inconvenient for you then you can go ahead and do this so
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there you go guys multim monitor output it comes with some adapters and stuff I
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guess so you can you have to plug it into Power because there's a bunch of
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stuff in there including a USB to Ethernet Bridge as well as a USB sound
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card as well as a USB 2 video adapter
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and it comes with a couple of other adapters as well so depending on what
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kind of outputs you have on your notebook it'll allow you to ad oh cool
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it comes with a DVI to HDMI adapter those are handy and then it also comes
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with a DVI to VGA adapter so depending on what all you've got going on in terms
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of your external peripherals you should be able to plug in pretty much whatever you want is this the only device that
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does this thing the answer is no it's not in fact there are many devices that
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do this Kensington just happened to send us one and since we've never unboxed
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anything like this before I was like okay yeah sure by the way this is uh
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appears to be dvii which is great that means you can even plug into a VGA
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monitor if your computer again modern
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slim laptops just HDMI which has no
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analog pins inside it can be very handy thank you for checking out my unboxing
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nice heft to it so it shouldn't just like immediately fall over when you you
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