The lapdock is just a dumb terminal with a keyboard, lcd and a battery to charge the phone and dock. Everything else is run by the phone itself onced dock. Its not a true laptop replacement in the sense. Unless you do the Ubuntu hacks shown elsewhere in these forums and even then it won't replace the laptop fully.

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Originally Posted by twospirits

The lapdock is just a dumb terminal with a keyboard, lcd and a battery to charge the phone and dock. Everything else is run by the phone itself onced dock. Its not a true laptop replacement in the sense. Unless you do the Ubuntu hacks shown elsewhere in these forums and even then it won't replace the laptop fully.

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Then as a novelty item ok. I can hook my phone up via USB and open Phone Portal, go to the IP address listed. Same thing?

Originally Posted by dsims7_2000

Then as a novelty item ok. I can hook my phone up via USB and open Phone Portal, go to the IP address listed. Same thing?

Novel enough that I'm posting using the lapdock while compiling drivers for a 10/100/1000 dongle.

Originally Posted by dsims7_2000

Then as a novelty item ok. I can hook my phone up via USB and open Phone Portal, go to the IP address listed. Same thing?

No. This is a chopped down instance of Ubuntu running Webtop, not android in what appears to be a virtual machine.

PhonePortal gets you to the base android.

I'll be holding off until I can pick one up for the $150 range new or maybe a second hand one for cheaper.

Originally Posted by dsims7_2000

Then as a novelty item ok. I can hook my phone up via USB and open Phone Portal, go to the IP address listed. Same thing?

You might consider this a novely item. I consider items like this and (hopefully) the forthcoming Asus PadFone to be the first products that use interchangable CPU cycles that will replace desktops for most users over the next 5-10 years.

For what the vast majority of people do the phones will have more than enough horsepower.

There are going to be power users etc that will require more, but I think these next few years will start to see the change take place to where PCs are no longer king.

i agree, I forgot who said it but this is the way of the future. The smartphone will be the mobile pc controlling all sorts of devices.
Add a touchscreen lcd, make the phone the trackpad, add a wireless mouse and since there isn't any more trackpad, replace it with a storage bin to add a internal ssd drive and viola, goodbye laptop for sure.

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Will this support writing windows word processor documents?

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Originally Posted by DualSportDad

Will this support writing windows word processor documents?

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You have three options. An Android office suite like Docs to Go, Google Docs or similar online editor, UbunTop or similar webtop modification (requires root and unlock).

Originally Posted by dsims7_2000

As I stated in the other Lapdock post, until I see some specs (Processor, DASD, Memory, ect.) I will not jump on this. I have a laptop that does this via USB cable.

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