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so today I'm gonna be doing a quick unboxing of a kensington notebook docking station I actually have no idea what a notebook docking station is exactly in this context but NCIX has a bunch of these and so I thought what the hey let's do an unboxing and see what's going on inside the box so the first thing we find inside is an installation guide and that could be useful for someone like me who doesn't oh my goodness look at this thing for someone like me who doesn't know exactly what a notebook docking station is good for okay about the size of a typical wall poster so that's in a variety of different languages including English francais Deutsch Italian Spanish as well as Dutch of all things okay and here we go so you install software all it has drivers your life just got easier no need to plug multiple peripherals into your notebook every time you return to the desk through one USB connection the docking station connects you instantly to your USB mouse keyboard printer and other peripherals as an added benefit placing your notebook on top of the docking station allows for better cooling of your machine so it has some drivers and has a little instruction on how to use it with a USB 2.0 port so let's have a look at the docking station itself and see what all the fuss is about so first we have drivers including drivers from Windows Vista remember Windows Vista drivers will work on Windows 7 and the may also have Windows XP drivers so those are the supporting operating systems here we have what appears to be a power adapter I'm fairly certain I'm going to find a power adapter inside yes so your typical wall warrant style power adapter nothing really to see here and here is the docking station so we have a USB a 2 B cable so this is going to plug into your notebook and this one is going to plug into the docking station and then we have the docking station so find out how this bag opens let's just tape closed here ok I'll be needing my knife for this because apparently that's very strong tape so here we go so warm all is going on with this guy so hold on there's a warning on the front of it have a look at that first if Windows disables your notebook speakers upon installation of the docking station refer to the troubleshooting section of the user menu ok so you can see here on the back we've got a variety of different connections so it looks like we have a LAN port we have 1 2 3 4 5 USB 2.0 ports we have a microphone port as well as a headphone jack we also have a USB input as well as our power input now the bottom of the docking station has what appears to be rubberized 4 rubberized mounting feet so those are going to make it very difficult for it to slip around if you have it positioned on the desk and then it's got a couple of what looked like sort of lucky things here so if you have any insight into what these guys are for please do let me know leave a comment under the video and I'll definitely take a look at that cameraman is having a look at the part number for whatever reason so this is the SD 100 maybe he's doing that because I haven't actually mentioned it yet on the top you can see actually you know what here cameraman stare at this for a second I'm gonna go get a laptop don't worry we'll take as long as it sounds like it'll take got it got a laptop so here the way this is positioned is so that you can put your laptop on it like this so here cameraman come have a look at the back so basically all you do is you take this USB cable and you plug it into one of the ports on your notebook you plug this in over here and then you get all of these interfaces as well as as Kensington mentions there's like the rubberized thing on the top here so your laptop's not gonna slip if you put it on here so that means that you get a little bit of extra space under the notebook itself for more cooling now I've actually found in my own personal testing with coolers that it is just as effective to place the notebook on a hard surface versus the carpet as it is to put a fan under it so something like this will probably be quite effective and this was even on a gaming model and keeping your notebook adequately cool when you are using it so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the Kensington I think it was SD 100 wasn't SD 100 notebook docking station don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips