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ViDock2 Box Works Hard, Travels Light

Today's world has evolved. People work from home, school, in the field, in their dorm rooms, classrooms, at customer locations, in airports, hotels…oh yes, and every once in a while in the office. But until now, using a laptop came with a price - the loss of graphics and gaming power, and the inability to upgrade to new graphics cards as they became available. Well, not any longer.

ViDock 2 solves this dilemma. It adds desktop graphics power to your setup without adding weight and bulk to your laptop. Additionally it can serve as a docking station that saves you time over hooking up all your cables to your laptop and protects its connectors against wear.

Go to HD Video and Beyond

If you are into Video, ViDock 2-4670 delivers. 1080p play back, 7.1 digital surround sound, reduced CPU load, upscale beyond 1920 x 1200 Video (no more black borders on 30”), Dynamic Contrast, HDMI output, Enhanced DVD upscaling.

Great for Content Creation

ViDock 2 provides the necessary performance and features that are essential for content creation, such as separate Color Calibration of each Display, Accelerated Video Trans-coding, scaling and playback and full-featured 2D, 3D and Video acceleration.

ViDock 2: Choices

ViDock 2-4670 comes with an ATI Radeon 4670, 512 MB DDR 3 graphics card pre-installed. ViDock 2-Box comes without a graphics card allowing you to install your own.



ViDock 2 is Changing the Game



With ViDock 2 you can turn any laptop with an ExpressCard slot into a hard core graphics and gaming machine, regardless of what video solution the laptop itself might have. ViDock 2 fixes the top three problems of mobile gaming machines: lack of upgradability, falling short of desktop graphics performance, and short battery life. Enjoy the highest level of graphics performance at your workstation while you continue to enjoy the mobility of your laptop while away - all with one computer! Just eject the ExpressCard connector cable from your laptop and you are ready to take your small, light mobile PC to the classroom, the internet café, or anywhere else that you need to work or socialize. All this while maintaining your laptop PC’s long battery life.
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Devil May Cry 4, 1920x1200, all settings to high, 30 fps Full Resolution Image

Feel the Difference
Build in ViDock
Built in graphics

ViDock 2

Boost 3D Performance
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We plugged the ViDock 2 into a 2 year old US$700.00 laptop with a discrete video card. The Benchmark above shows the ViDock 2 improved the 3D performance by over 400%. When connected to one of today’s mainstream laptops you can achieve benchmarks over 8000 Marks!

These results were obtained using real world settings, such as 1280 x 1024 resolution, aliasing turned on and ATI quality features set to default. The two crops to the left show how this performance translates into higher image quality, which equates to a more enjoyable game experience.

Upgradability

Video cards usually move into the next generation about every year. Anyone can upgrade the video card in their ViDock 2 to the newest video card available in less than 5 minutes! Just open the ViDock 2 by turning the thumb screws, unplug your old card and plug in your new card, then close it and tighten the thumb screws. There you have it…your laptop can now use the most current desktop video card and the only thing you have to buy is the desktop video card itself.

ExpressCard 2.0 / PCIe 2.0

ViDock 2 is the the first shipping products to make use of the double bandwidth ExpressCard 2 provides; ideal to enjoy performance hungry modern games.