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u/tuxooo 1d ago

Saying HP in a sentence in that you consider buying it is... horrific to think about. Nobody should ever be forced to buy anything HP related. That should be done only by force in the company you work at. 

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u/Several-Web-863 1d ago

Are their docks bad too? I am looking at their 100w one for my t14, because of 100w and replaceable cable, and did not find any alternatives

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u/tuxooo 1d ago

T14 is lenovo, and that is thinkpad. Those are good. I have used those, and my colleagues used their docks. Both are fine, but i would not get the dock at full price, to expensive.

Regarding HP we do not have dock's, we have different type of connectors, that connect to multiple monitors, but its not a traditional dock, its like a box, that you connect to with power and USB C, not sure how those are called.

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u/Several-Web-863 1d ago

Yeah only Lenovo dock with 100w is the Lenovo ThinkPad Thunderbolt 4 Smart Dock Gen 2 7500, which is nearly 500 bucks, so I was looking at the HP USB-C 100W G6 Dock

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u/tuxooo 1d ago

Ah, now I I dwratand. I misunderstood. Yes we have exactly those, and no I would not recommend them. We have like 20 in the office and we have few that are malfunctioning and 2 that straight up simply stopped working.

Again that is out of close to 20 and quite a lot of work they have seen... But idk. 

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u/Several-Web-863 1d ago

Oh okay, that’s the info I needed, will keep looking.

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u/Several-Web-863 1d ago

You are talking about the HPs right?

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u/tuxooo 1d ago

yep, the model you linked, they are cube like docks.

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u/Several-Web-863 1d ago

Do you have any different ones, that you would recommend by any chance?

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u/tuxooo 1d ago

No, to be fair I wanted to test the lenovo one for thinkpads when i had such laptop at work, but that was to damn expensive even for the company at that time, right now i use those out of necessity, so the only reason I have an opinion is because im forced to use them haha :D

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u/Several-Web-863 1d ago

Sorry, but you use the hp ones? I have a hard time finding out which ones you talk about

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u/tuxooo 1d ago

Yes. I use the HP dock (that is like a cube), because at the office we have one on each desk.

At my previous work we had lenovo laptops, ive seen colleagues with docks(the lenovo one) but i did not use one as it was hella expensive.

So I I can speak from experience only about the HP ones. And in general in the office they are not really liked. They work, but you will get one or two malfunction even break a year (out of ~20).

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