[PLUG] USB3, new laptop

[Chris Schafer]

dell latitude 6430u with the wigi wireless dock...   :) I am sure it would
be driver hell but someday it will be cool.


On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 4:05 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:56:33 -0700
> Keith Lofstrom <keithl at gate.kl-ic.com> dijo:
>
> >On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 08:03:58PM -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> >> Why do I want a docking station? Because I have three USB 2.0 devices
> >> and one USB 3.0 device that I want attached at all times when at
> >> home, plus an ethernet cable. The USB and ethernet ports on every
> >> laptop I
>
> >USB3 is 4.8Gbps .  If the protocols and code supported it, that is
> >plenty fast enough to move your internet traffic and all your
> >peripheral information, via a USB hub connected to your laptop
> >with one cable.  So that (potentially) would be two plugs, one
> >for power and one for USB3.   Regards "cables to the side", that
> >could be remediated with a "cable cover platform" - a hypothetical
> >something about a centimeter high, hollow/on-short-feet, flush with
> >the top of the keyboard, hollow (say on some short feet) underneath,
> >making a surface extending to the side.
> >
> >But that is hypothetical, I don't know whether the code and the
> >peripherals exist to actually move network traffic effectively
> >over USB3, or whether USB3 and USB2 can be mixed through a hub
> >or switch at USB3 speeds.  It still does not deal with wearout
> >on the power connector, the main reason I use a docking station.
> >
> >Does anyone know about networking over USB3 with Linux?
>
> I don't know about networking, but there is a fancy system that I am
> interested in that you can get with a SIIG "universal" dock" that
> supposedly supplies power as well as networking and more USB ports. It
> comes to about $2200 decked out the way I want it:
>
> http://www.pugetsystems.com/nav/traverse/pro/customize.php?sys_id=61
>
> Looking at the pics it appears that there is a USB 3.0 port on the
> side, but at the very back, similar to the location of two of the USB
> ports on my Thinkpad T61. If I connect the SIIG dock to that USB port
> and the power in back as well, I would have only one cable along the
> side, and not very much of that. At least it wouldn't be in the way of
> my mouse. However, I said "it appears" because I can't be sure of
> the location of the USB 3.0 ports from the low-res pic on their
> website. Last night I sent them a message asking them to call me, but
> so far they have not.
>
> My shopping so far has produced only the Thinkpad 530 as an
> alternative. The Thinkpad has a dock similar to what I am used to with
> my Thinkpad T61. That is a plus, and I am hoping the Thinkpad build
> quality still holds up for the 530. But the Puget laptop can be had
> with a Blu-ray burner where Lenovo offers only a reader. Yes, I can get
> an external, but that is more cables. I haven't called Lenovo yet.
>
> I'm really pissed that the Zareason laptops have the USB ports at the
> front, and they offer no docks. I really like their computers (boots
> in 15 seconds!) and I want one really bad, but that is a fatal flaw.
> Very frustrating.
>
> Fortunately I am not in a hurry. :)
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