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What is a laptop docking station?
What is a laptop docking station?
A laptop docking station is a device that your laptop plugs in to. It usually sits onto the docking station and “docks” into it. The docking station is usually connected to peripherals. For example if you have a docking station on your desk at work it can be connected to the network, have a power cord plugged into it, an LCD, keyboard & mouse. Plop your laptop into it and you have your workstation running just like a desktop computer.
The days most laptops support hot docking. That is plopping your laptop into a docking station while it is running. And when you are off to that meeting or done for the day, you can just pick it up and go.
Not all laptops support docking stations but most business models do.
Happy docking!
What is Nvidia’s 3D Vision Kit?
Nvidia defines the 3D Vision Kit as:
NVIDIA® 3D Vision™ technology is a combination of Graphics Processor Units (GPU), specialized 3D glasses, software, and certified displays and projectors that deliver an immersive 3D experience on your PC or workstation.
You can read more about Nvidia’s 3D Vision Kit on their site here:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/3d-vision-main.html
Youmay find interesting our article: What is a 3D laptop?
What is a 3D Laptop?
What is a 3D laptop? How does a 3D laptop work? these are some of the questions coming in right now.
Right now, different laptops use different 3D technologies.
Some are using TriDef’s 3D technology, which uses a polarizing filter on a standard 60Hz display and software that converts 2D content to 3D for viewing with polarized glasses. Read more about TriDef’s 3D technology.
Other 3D laptops are using Nvidia’s 3D Vision Kit. These laptops have a 120Hz display. The system uses a wireless transmitter and heavier, battery-powered glasses. Read more about Nvidia’s 3D Vision Kit.
More 3D laptops will be released in 2011 and this technology will improve. Right now it is mostly used for gaming. Lots of games are easy to convert to stereoscopic 3D, and there are already hundreds of popular games that work with 3D display technology.
What is TriDef?
TriDef 3D software enables the viewing of movies, photos and games in 3D on many stereoscopic 3D displays. TriDef 3D includes Dynamic Digital Depth’s unique 2D to 3D conversion software enabling existing 2D photos, movies and DVDs to be enjoyed in dynamic 3D. Blu-ray and HD DVDs are not supported.
Not sure what a 3D laptop is? Read more about is in the article: What is a 3D laptop?