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best office/home office setup - the telecommuter



On 07/26/2009 12:20 AM, Bill Ricker wrote:
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> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Gordon Marx <gcmarx-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
> <mailto:gcmarx-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>> wrote:
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>     Incidentally, I haven't been able to find a dock that has two DVI
>     outputs -- while I appreciate that the dock has 1 DVI and 1 VGA, I'd
>     really rather have 2 DVI, or even DisplayPort (but I'm not sure anyone
>     is THAT cool yet).
>
>
> The Advanced Dock for T60 & W/T500 has slot for pci-mini to add second
> graphics adapter, wwhich would get you the secondd dvi.

What kind of slot?

I presume its the same Advanced Dock that I have for my T61. The slot is 
PCI Express. Its a physical x16 slot, but electrical x8 or x4, iirc, but 
you can indeed put a PCIE graphics card in it (it just won't run at 
maximum efficiency w/less PCIE lanes to work with).

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod-ajLrJawYSntWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org







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