Possibly one of the most helpful accessories one can obtain for their laptop is a laptop docking station. Of course you can hook up all sorts of peripheral to a laptop without one, but in doing so you will have a bundle of cords and cables you will have to unhook every time you want to take your laptop with you only to reattach them when you come home.
A laptop docking station allows you to connect your laptop to all of your peripherals with a single usb cable. The docking station provides all the connections to your printer, an extra monitor, speakers and keyboard. You then simply plug your laptop into the docking station with a single cord and you are ready to treat your laptop as though it was a desktop computer.
This makes using a laptop as a main computer even more attractive to the office professional. With the speed and memory of laptops ever increasing, the versatility of the laptop docking station means that one’s office can go with them anywhere. The docking station also makes developing presentations easier than ever. Marketing professionals that use their laptops to power presentations using a projector will appreciate being able to compile their data as if they were using a desktop though their docking station and then hit the field with the same laptop knowing that their presentations are perfect.
Another less obvious but just as handy use for a laptop docking station is to have one at your media center connected to your flatscreen television. With a wi-fi enabled laptop, you can play streaming videos from the web over your television with minimal hassle. The audio from the docking station can be connected to an auxiliary input on your home stereo and those music videos on the web really come to life. With the addition of a wireless mouse and keyboard you can surf the web without ever leaving your couch.