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Targus ACP50US Universal Notebook Docking Station with Video Reviews

Customer Rating:
Summary: Works Well...for what I'm doing, anyway!
Comment: I use this to hook up my notebook (ACER 44620Z running Vista ) to ethernet, speakers, keyboard/mouse/USB memory stick/all-in-one print/scan/fax device/MP3 player (all USB) etc. For all of these things, it works very, very well.

I did try hooking it up to a secondary monitor, and that did not work very well...it might just be a matter of overloading the USB line at that point.

My only complaint (and it's an impossibility, really) would be that it would be nice to be able to charge my notebook via the USB port so that I only had a single cable to hook up. Not gonna happen, of course, but it would be nice. Going from 7 cables to 2 isn't bad...it's just that going to 1 would be even better.

Oh, and I *really* like the lean angle for typing and cooling! That's the icing on the multifunctional cake.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Ran Fine Until Recently
Comment: I bought one of these 2 years ago, running a Dell 700m laptop, SVA brand monitor, wireless mouse & keyboard and audio speakers off it. I never had any problems with it. It was a snap to install and configure by plug & play. No keybd or mouse problems, nothin! About a month ago, I started having problems with starting up Windows (XP Pro). It would not boot the system, would go to blank screen about a minute after the Windows XP logo screen, then just power down and stop. It started to take several hard stops and starts before XP would start. After running all the diagnostics on Windows and my Dell, I isolated it to the ACP50 since nothing else appeared to have any problems. Uninstalled it, reinstalled from the beginning and now cannot install the hardware, with an error message that says it the hub) is malfunctioning. I have contacted Targus but have not heard back (and don't expect to). Anyone else have a similar problem, write it here please.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: video does not work due to power surge
Comment: i have purchased 2 of these now and have had problems with the video and power problems. both times computer does not recognize device.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: It didn't work.
Comment: This product did not work well at all. It slowed my computer down to a snail's pace. It first of all came partially opened already as if it had been returned previously. I was very unhappy with this product and returned it immediately to the vendor. I did get a full refund though less shipping charges.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Not recommended
Comment: While the product does work as advertised, the mouse tracking is slow with the bundled ver 7.01 of the drivers. I uninstalled and downloaded/installed the latest 7.12 from Targus. The mouse worked better, but still shaky. The video MUST be set to USB-Primary otherwise it can't share the video with the laptop (I'm using a brand new Dell Vostro 1500, 2Gb RAM, WinXPSP2). Worse, the video seems to be an extended desktop, so on the external monitor, if you move the mouse too far right, it begins to appear on the laptop's screen and gets annoying when trying to bring it back over.
In all, I would not recommend this product as it appears that the single USB connection cannot carry all the data of video, sound, mouse, kybd, etc sufficiently. I hope that Targus redesigns the product with a faster 'backbone' in future models.

~Greg
IT Consultant (18yrs+ experience)

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