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[OFFICIAL MALATA ZPAD DOCK REVIEW]
[EDIT 3/25] INVENTORY IS LOW BUT SHIPMENTS ALREADY ON THE WAY (EXPECTED MON / TUE)... BLACK CLIPS, DOCKS, m1's ALREADY IN ROUTE
11/31 - I finally got received my official Malata ZPAD Dock today and wanted to post for all to see. PLEASE BARE WITH ME on my review, the pics arent that great and I didnt run a bunch of tests but I have most of the basic info that everyone is going to want to know. Feel free to ask questions and I will try to run additional tests for you.
DOCK - HDMI Out, USB, LAN and power (no additional ac adapter supplied) The quality is nice. The bottom of the dock has a rubber insert as to not scratch a table if moved around and as you may see from the pic there is a rubber insert where the tablet itself sits to protect it. The tab just drops on; pretty simple. With the ac adapter plugged in the tab does show that its charging. It sits at a rather upright angle (not straight up and down) so I would think that its something that you would NOT want to try type on without a keyboard on a regular basis, but it does seem pretty steady on there.
USB As you can tell from the pic it did recognize an 8 GB USB thumb drive that I had plugged into it. I did not get to test a USB keyboard and mouse as the ones that I have available didnt work natively with the tablet so I didnt even try with the dock (yet).
LAN Also in a pic, once plugged in the connection lights on the back started lighting up immediately. I turned off my WiFi and enabled the Ethernet in setting and it quickly got an IP and as you can see there is no longer an x on the tablet LAN icon. I DID test the internet and all worked just fine.
HDMI plugged the HDMI in and hooked it up to a 32 and it popped right up. NOW the quality was grainy and Im sure there may be a way to fix that but I just wanted to get you pics to show whether it worked or not. In the pics you can see my screen duplicated and I started a movie (which I will say the quality was much better in the movie that it replicating my home screens)
All in all I am extremely pleased and cant wait to put it to use. The only KNOWN issue is that you have to have the gTab OFF when you put in on the dock to get the LAN to work (something about it obtaining DNS settings that the Dev's haven't worked through as of yet)
Let me know what you think!
[EDIT 3/25] INVENTORY IS LOW BUT SHIPMENTS ALREADY ON THE WAY (EXPECTED MON / TUE)... BLACK CLIPS, DOCKS, m1's ALREADY IN ROUTE
11/31 - I finally got received my official Malata ZPAD Dock today and wanted to post for all to see. PLEASE BARE WITH ME on my review, the pics arent that great and I didnt run a bunch of tests but I have most of the basic info that everyone is going to want to know. Feel free to ask questions and I will try to run additional tests for you.
DOCK - HDMI Out, USB, LAN and power (no additional ac adapter supplied) The quality is nice. The bottom of the dock has a rubber insert as to not scratch a table if moved around and as you may see from the pic there is a rubber insert where the tablet itself sits to protect it. The tab just drops on; pretty simple. With the ac adapter plugged in the tab does show that its charging. It sits at a rather upright angle (not straight up and down) so I would think that its something that you would NOT want to try type on without a keyboard on a regular basis, but it does seem pretty steady on there.
USB As you can tell from the pic it did recognize an 8 GB USB thumb drive that I had plugged into it. I did not get to test a USB keyboard and mouse as the ones that I have available didnt work natively with the tablet so I didnt even try with the dock (yet).
LAN Also in a pic, once plugged in the connection lights on the back started lighting up immediately. I turned off my WiFi and enabled the Ethernet in setting and it quickly got an IP and as you can see there is no longer an x on the tablet LAN icon. I DID test the internet and all worked just fine.
HDMI plugged the HDMI in and hooked it up to a 32 and it popped right up. NOW the quality was grainy and Im sure there may be a way to fix that but I just wanted to get you pics to show whether it worked or not. In the pics you can see my screen duplicated and I started a movie (which I will say the quality was much better in the movie that it replicating my home screens)
All in all I am extremely pleased and cant wait to put it to use. The only KNOWN issue is that you have to have the gTab OFF when you put in on the dock to get the LAN to work (something about it obtaining DNS settings that the Dev's haven't worked through as of yet)
Let me know what you think!
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