Compare Prices for Lenovo Thinkpad X220 Ultrabase
Product Description
Expand the function of your ThinkPad X220 Series ultraportable or tablet with the sleek and portable ThinkPad UltraBase Series 3 (0A33932). This simple, quick attach docking solution adds a wide array of expansion capabilities, including an optical drive bay, but it is small enough to carry anywhere.
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$230.00Price : $136.99
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Product Feature
- Thinner and lighter design for easy portability - Ideal for use in the office, at home or on the road
- Digital and analog video support - VGA monitor port and Display Port
- Four USB 2.0 ports
- Ultrabay Slim device bay for optical drive or second hard drive
- Gigabit Ethernet
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
Saves Time and Reduces Wear-and-Tear
By Joe B. Edmonds
I've never used a docking station before. They always seemed kinda superfluous to me, since you can just plug everything directly in to the ports on the machine.
But I take my laptop home from work every day. The Ultrabase saves me about a minute a day, plugging and unplugging the mouse, monitor, power, and audio connectors. Not to mention the wear and tear on all those connectors. Since it was really no extra work, I even plugged an ethernet cable in to the dock, to improve networking speed & reliability.
This Ultrabase makes it very easy to drop the laptop down and to lift it off by pulling one lever. I use Ubuntu Linux, and I was even able to configure my laptop to run an upstart script when the laptop is docked or undocked (to configure the dual-screen layout with xrandr).
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Works well.
By Joshua Wolfe
X230 friendly, though I miss the eSATA port found on Thinkpad T-series docks. It may simply not be supported by the X-series laptops, which is a shame. Limited to USB 2.0, hooking an external HDD up to this means disappointing transfer rates. If you were considering such a set-up, you'll either have to settle for 2.0 speeds, or get a 3.0 external and settle for plugging it manually into your laptop every time.
To the best of my knowledge, there still isn't an update to this dock that supports the X230+ features, but who knows if that'll still be the case by the time you read this? Check out Lenovo's official site before settling on this.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent X230 companion
By Mark J. Minasi
Let me start this by saying that Lenovo has been driving me insane with the ever-shrinking range of features in their docking stations. The docking station for the T61 sported every interface you could imagine, including space for an extra hard drive and a PCI card. I've so missed that.
The Lenovo Thinkpad X220 Ultrabase doesn't quite match that, but it's good. I love my X230, but there are times that I wish it had the flexibility of the W510 that it replaced. This Ultrabase differs from others in that it's not so much a desktop docking station (although it can be) as it's an add-on that turns the X230 tablet into a more powerful laptop.
Pros:
-Once you sit the X230 into the Ultrabase, you have a roughly six pound laptop that is (1) still quite portable, (2) includes space for either a second 2.5" SATA drive or a DVD drive, (3) includes five USB 2 and two USB 3 ports, (4) moves the Ethernet, VGA and DisplayPort ports to the back of the laptop, which is something I often need when presenting from a narrow podium. Lenovo likes to call the X230 a "convertible" because you can swing the display around to make it a laptop or a tablet, but having the ability choose to travel in either "light mode" or "completely equipped mode" is what makes this truly "convertible."
-Hot-dockable. As I run SSDs in the laptop, I have no trouble adding or subtracting the Ultrabay without rebooting. (I wouldn't do that with a rotational drive even IF the hard drive protection thing was installed.)
-The duplicated or added ports -- the Ultrabay, four USB 2, DisplayPort, VGA, and audio jacks.
Cons:
-An eSATAp port like the ones we've seen in earlier models would have really filled out the "desktop replacement" role, but there isn't one there.
-USB 2, but then this was built for the 220 which I THINK didn't have USB 3.
-Ultrabay size: the Ultrabay in the Ultrabase (lot of "ultra's" there!) is a mite smaller than some of the others. It fits the DVD drive -- and it INCLUDES the Ultrabay DVD drive, that was a nice surprise -- and, best of all, it fits the same SATA drive caddy as the one that the W510 uses, but the Ultrabay does NOT fit the batteries that go into other Ultrabays. It would have been nice to have a couple on hand for a trip to Slovenia, but there are other alternatives.
Overall, a very nice complement to my X230, and if you've wished for a two-spindle option on the X230, then it's a reasonable price.
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