Rated 2.000000 out of 5 Stars
Reviewer:
PCMan
(Des Moines, IA)
Date
14-Jun-2012
I've had this product forless than a month
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Pros:
Increases your fps rate
Cons:
Price is enormous / isnt that great of a gpu
The external graphics sometimes cause a game to stutter even though its showing at 60fps. The graphics card really isn't that good... a Radion 6650? I would have much rather had a GeForce 650m. Overall this is only worth the price is you need this to play games or graphic intensive programs.
Rated 1.000000 out of 5 Stars
Reviewer:
tntgalx10
Date
15-Apr-2012
I've had this product for1-3 months
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Pros:
looks
Cons:
tons
Model VGP-PRZ20C.
Continually locks up my month-old Vaio Z collection laptop. When not using docking station, laptop runs fine.
However, I *need* the docking station (multiple monitors) - there is not even drivers/manuals online on sony.com for this!
Frustrated beyond belief. $400 for THIS?!?!
Rated 1.000000 out of 5 Stars
Reviewer:
Requete
(VA)
Date
14-May-2012
I've had this product for3-6 months
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Pros:
lots of nice features
Cons:
Cannot undock if you use external monitors
I am a computer engineer and have been using Vaio products for years, including this Docking Station since Oct 2011. The Docking Station will NOT undock when you press the blue button as instructed, you will get a message panel saying that it cannot undock because the system is still accessing the external monitors. I tried every software update download from VAIO USA, UK, even for similar VAIO models, and from AMD for AMD Radeon HD 6650M software. NOTHING works. AMD says contact your notebook provider (Sony).
***>>> THIS DOCKING STATION WILL NOT WORK AS ADVERTISED until this bug fix is done. There is another bug: the Marvel RAID controller 61xx will also not work (meaning that the VAIO is accessing the Blu-ray drive on this Docking Station.). BOTH items do not allow to undock.
The fault is 100% Sony Vaio, which did a poor software integration between their USB 3.0 port setup on the VAIO and the Docking Station with has 2 external vendor components (AMD and Marvell).
I have read complaints on other sites about this for some time, so don't expect it to be fixed anytime soon.
So what do I have to do? Two options:
1. Completely shut down the VAIO laptop everytime all programs to undock (imagine, to and from work everyday!!)
or 2. Hook up the monitors directly to the VAIO laptop and disable the Marvell driver, only enabling it when I have to use the Blu-Ray drive.
Absolutely POOR.
If any Sony customer support is there, just copy and paste my comments and send it to your engineering development team -- do they use what they program by the way?? This is completely obvious.
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