{"id":5009,"date":"2012-06-04T14:49:04","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T19:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=5009"},"modified":"2012-06-06T15:33:49","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T20:33:49","slug":"matrox-ds1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/04\/matrox-ds1\/","title":{"rendered":"Matrox DS1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.matrox.com\/docking_station\/en\/ds1\/\">Matrox<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.matrox.com\/docking_station\/en\/ds1\/\"><p>Matrox DS1 gives you the most from your Thunderbolt port by letting you add a large display, a full size keyboard, a mouse, a wired network, and many other peripherals using a single cable. In an instant, you enjoy all the productivity benefits of a desktop computer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When I eventually upgrade to a Thunderbolt MacBook Pro, I would be interested in a more professional-level dock. It seems that nobody makes one right now. The $249 (plus $50 cable?) DS1 doesn&rsquo;t offer dual-link DVI or DisplayPort, so it&rsquo;s limited to smaller displays, and it has only one USB 3 port and two regular ones. The $300 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2012\/01\/11\/belkin-thunderbolt-express-dock-hands-on-video\/\">Belkin dock<\/a> also has limitations. A dock that supported a full-size display, that had enough fully powered USB ports that I didn&rsquo;t need any hubs, maybe even FireWire or eSATA&mdash;that would be interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Update (2012-06-06): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anandtech.com\/print\/5933\">AnandTech<\/a> covers the Matrox and Belkin docks.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matrox: Matrox DS1 gives you the most from your Thunderbolt port by letting you add a large display, a full size keyboard, a mouse, a wired network, and many other peripherals using a single cable. In an instant, you enjoy all the productivity benefits of a desktop computer. When I eventually upgrade to a Thunderbolt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5009"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5031,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5009\/revisions\/5031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}