{"id":807,"date":"2013-06-20T16:22:59","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T16:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wiki.davelevy.info\/?p=807"},"modified":"2023-12-29T01:06:53","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T01:06:53","slug":"dell-laptops-summer-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/dell-laptops-summer-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Dell Laptops, Summer 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Checking out another Dell for a friend. I want a laptop and docking bay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>If a Dell, it needs to be a <strong>Latitude<\/strong>, they&#8217;re the only machines they ship with the old fashioned docking bay interface. We don&#8217;t want to connect a screen using USB and we want the machine to be closed while using the desktop peripherals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is the Dell E6530 configure page. Here is the docking station link. The laptop needs the E-Series Legacy Expansion Port added in the &#8220;Accessorize my Dell&#8221; section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It also needs the O\/S version upgraded to 64 bit. It comes without MS Office, so this&#8217;ll need to be added. Wonder if the still do educational discounts, looks like not, since Office 365 seems about the same price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe the docking station isn&#8217;t worth it. Get a cheaper laptop, with a screen port, and buy a new screen with a newer interface standard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How big is it, how much does it weigh?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do Laptop Power sell docking stations?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Checking out another Dell for a friend. I want a laptop and docking bay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[228,195,1184,230,227,912,90,229,911],"class_list":["post-807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-i-t","category-technology","tag-computer","tag-dell","tag-deprecated","tag-docking-station","tag-hardware","tag-i-t","tag-laptop","tag-system","tag-technology"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/deprecated-dfl1955-cc0-w1080.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9912,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions\/9912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}