Docking Stations Archive
If you own a modern smartphone then your charger is likely one of two types: Thunderbolt 3.0 or USB-C. Thunderbolt is the proprietary charging mechanism for Apple products and USB-C is the more general option that is used by Android phones and other types of smart devices. Laptops and computers used to connect all the ports you would need to charge your devices. However, now …
It used to be that USB connections were relatively straightforward. You plugged in a keyboard or mouse, and that was it. Maybe if you got really fancy, you plugged in an external hard drive. Nowadays, pretty much everything connects via USB. If your computer has external speakers, odds are pretty good they use a USB cable. Many people use two or three external hard drives. …
In one sense, laptop docks have been with us almost as long as laptops themselves. Even back in the early 90s, you could buy a docking station specific for your machine. This allowed you to get the benefits of both a laptop and a desktop computer. You could travel with your laptop by itself. Then, when you were at your desk, you could click into …
If you go back just a few years, there was no reason to use a smartphone with an external monitor. To begin with, the displays were very low quality. Blowing up a crummy, low-quality picture is just going to get you a bigger, low-quality picture. But modern smartphones are nearly on par with laptops when it comes to display quality. You can even watch and …
Over the past few decades, computers have simultaneously gotten smaller and more powerful. For the most part, this trend has done a lot of good. Back in the early 90s, laptops were big, fat, and heavy, and they weren’t terribly powerful. They could easily give you a cramp if you used them for long periods, and they tended to get warm. As in, “burn your …
