UniXpress USB Port Replicator offers Notebook users VGA & Dual-PC Support

These connectors are good enough for some laptop users but not good enough for others. They basically give you everything you get from a proprietary docking station except for a VGA connector. So you end up having to dock your laptop to the USB port replicator and then run another cable to a monitor.

Why? VGA connectors have 15 pins, whereas USB connectors have either four or six. It hasn’t been technically feasible to try to translate a complex video signal into USB. Various compression techniques have been used without much success until Addlogix developed an innovative way to accomplish it.

“Our engineers have finally figured out how to make VGA run on USB,” says Chang. “For the first time, we can offer business a VGA connector on the USB port replicator.”

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This technology from Addlogix is known as the UniXpress USB Port Replicator. It works on any Windows-based notebook or PC, and can do virtually anything a traditional docking station can do. Mobile users connect the VGA display, Ethernet, speakers, microphone, USB printers, and other peripherals to UniXpress. All of these peripherals can then interface with the computer via one single USB cable. This cable will be the only cable the user connects or disconnects when the computer is on the go.

UniXpress also comes with several unique features. For example, users can add a second monitor without installing video graphics cards i.e. you can have Word running on the laptop screen and an Excel spreadsheet on an external monitor via UniXpress simultaneously.

Graphic designers can use this capability to facilitate the manipulation of images in Adobe Photoshop and other graphics programs. No longer will users have to scramble the little tool bars and property windows away from the files that they are working on. Instead, they can have the document on one screen and the tool bars on the other screen. Similarly, animators, video editors and business users can make use of the additional “desktop space” to increase productivity. And on mid- to high-end notebooks which already have an additional VGA port, it is possible to add a third screen through UniXpress.

In terms of resolution, UniXpress is the only port replicator that supports video resolution of 1280 x 1024. Its patent pending graphics engine also offers jitter-free DVD playback. Further, its VGA port provides a benefit normally reserved for high-end video graphics cards – three modes of video support:

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