VTBook Compatibility Lists

VTBook has been designed to be fully standard compliant and the thousands pieces sold until now did not show any problem when used with standard hardware. So if you are willing to use VTBook with standard notebooks and displays you can immediately start to build your multidisplay mobile workstation!

This page contains information about systems we directly tested. If you can't find your hardware configuration in this page, most likely your hardware setup will work perfectly with VTBook.

If you think that your equipment is nonstandard and you would like to receive more information please write us with a description of the desired configuration.

Compatibility lists
Systems	Displays
Acer Apple Dell Dialogue Fujitsu-Siemens Hewlett Packard IBM Sony Wyse	Apple Barco Dell Hewlett Packard NEC Samsung SGI Sim2 Sony ViewSonic
Please look also at the CardBus bridge compatibility section to have an estimate of the maximum CardBus performance you can expect from your notebook.	Here are listed only peculiar displays, like big CRT or LCD displays, plasma displays or projectors. VTBook has proven to be compatible with every small and medium sized display (below a native resolution of 1600x1200) tested.

If your notebook shows even minor problems with VTBook please write us with a description of the problem and we will try to understand how to solve the problem. Of course, if your notebook works like a charm with VTBook you can still write your congratulations to us!

Tested systems
Acer
Travelmate 430	Compatible. Uses an O2Micro CardBus bridge. : see the additional information below.
Apple
Please note that only the operating system versions officially supported by Apple have been tested and are supported on each PowerBook model.
PowerBook G3 Series - WallStreet -	Compatible
PowerBook G3 Series (Rev.2) - PDQ -	Compatible
PowerBook G3 (Bronze Keyboard) - Lombard, 101 -	Compatible
PowerBookG3 (FireWire) - Pismo, P8 -	Compatible
PowerBook G4 - Ttianium, Mercury -	Compatible with Mac OS X. With Mac OS 9 VTBook can not be used when USB devices are connected to the PowerBook.
PowerBook G4 (Gigabit Ethernet) - Ttianium, Onyx, P25 -	Compatible
PowerBook G4 (DVI) - Ttianium, Ivory -	Compatible
PowerBook G4 (1GHz, 867MHz) - Ttianium, P88 -	Compatible
PowerBook G4 (17-inch) - Aluminium, Hammerhead -	Compatible
PowerBook G4 (15-inch FW 800) - Aluminium, Q16 -	Compatible
PowerBook G4 (17-inch1.33 GHz) - Aluminium, Q41 -	Compatible
PowerBook G4 (17-inch DL SD) - PowerBook5,8-	Compatible
Dialogue
FlyBook	Compatible with standard driver version 2.3 and later and with DualDisplay driver version 1.1 and later.
Dell
Inspiron 5150 Inspiron 8500 Inspiron 8600 Insipiron 9100 Inspiron XPS Latitude D400 Latitude D600 Latitude D800 Precision M60	These notebook models, if equipped with a BIOS released before 15th July 2004, are not fully CardBus compliant and VTBook can not reliably work with them. If you are planning to use VTBook on one of these notebook models or if you experience prolems using VTBook on them, please download the latest BIOS update for your notebook. Here is a list of the BIOS versions, released 15th July 2004, that were the first to fix this problem. Any BIOS version not older that these should solve the problem: Inspiron 5150 : BIOS version A35 Inspiron 8500 : BIOS version A06 Inspiron 8600 : BIOS version A09 Latitude D400 : BIOS version A06 Latitude D600 : BIOS version A13 Latitude D800 : BIOS version A10 Precision M60 : BIOS version A06 To download a Dell BIOS update please follow these steps: Go to http://support.dell.com Click the "Downloads" link Insert the notebook product and model and press the arrow Select Flash Bios update in the download category Select Windows XP in the OS section Press Submit Follow the instructions provided by Dell
Fujitsu-Siemens
LifeBook P7010	Compatible
Hewlett Packard
EVON610C	A possible conflict with the built in ATI graphics card drivers has been reported. A different ATI driver version solved the problem.
HP Compaq NC4010	Compatible.
HP Compaq NC6000	Compatible with Windows XP. Windows 2000 requires a workaround: pelase contact us before installing the VTBook driver.
HP Pavilion ZE4545US	Compatible.
HP ZV5260us	Not compatible: system architecture is not able to allocate suffficient resources to PCCard devices.
IBM
Thinkpad 600X	Compatible
Thinkpad G40	Compatible
Thinkpad R50P	Presently compatible when using Windows 2000. Compatible when using Windows XP.
Thinkpad T30 Thinkpad T40P Thinkpad T41	Compatible
Thinkpad X21	This notebook has limited CardBus power capabilities. Thanks to its voltage sensor VTBook automatically adapts to this notebook running in low power mode: higher resolutions will not be available and hardware acceleration may be disabled.
Sony
FX101	Compatible
FXA53 (US) FX601, FX602, FX604, FX605 (EU) FXA59 (US) FX701, FX702, FX705 (EU)	VTBook is not compatible using Windows due to a BIOS/OS incompatibility. VTBook works well on these systems using Linux.
Vaio GRT 896	Compatible
Vaio TR1	Compatible
Wyse
Wyse 9450 XP	Compatible
Wyse V90	Compatible

Tested Displays
Apple
15" ADC Studio Display 17" ADC Studio Display 20" ADC Cinema Display 22" ADC Cinema Display 23" ADC Cinema HD Display	Compatible. Non native scaled resolutions are available only on Mac OS.
20" Cinema Display Aluminium 23" Cinema HD Display Aluminium	Compatible
ColorSync 20"	Compatible
Barco
VTBook is compatible with all the high end 1440x1050 projector line.
Dell
2000FP 20" LCD display	Compatible
2001FP 20" LCD display	This display is known to have problems with various graphics cards at the native resolution of 1600x1200DVI. At that resolution VTBook may not be able reliably drive this display through the DVI connector.
2007WFP 22" LCD display	Compatible from version 2.5 of the Windows driver
207WFP 22" LCD display	Compatible from version 2.5 of the Windows driver
Hewlett Packard
L2335 23" LCD Display	Compatible up to the 1920x1200 native resolution.
NEC
42VP4 42" Plasma TV	Compatible
Samsung
SyncMaster 213T	Compatible (VGA&DVI)
Sim2
All HDTV products from Sim2 have been validated with VTBook.
SGI
1600SW LVDS 1600x1024 LCD display	Compatible. Requires a DVI-to-LVDS adapter: tested with SGI's MultiLink adapter.
Sony
GDM -FW900 24" CRT monitor	Compatible up to the 1920x1200 resolution.
SDM-P232 23" LCD display	Compatible up to the 1920x1200 native resolution.
ViewSonic
N3260W LCD TV	Compatible. Requires a DVI to HDMI adapter.

Tested CardBus Bridges
The PCCard Bridge is the piece of hardware that controls and exchanges data with the PCCard cards used in the system. Some PCCard bridges have a known limitation in the amount of bandwidth available for PCCard cards. For PCCards needing a great amount of bandwidth, like VTBook, this limitation is sometimes noticeable. If your notebook's PCCard bridge does not offer the full CardBus bandwidth, VTBook will still be usable but the most bandwidth-intensive applications may show a performance decrease. Examples of these applications are: video playback, pivot resolutions, mirroring, games.
Texas Instruments:	Used in some Dell notebooks. Very good bridge, no noticeable bandwidth limitation.
Toshiba TOPIC	Used by some Toshiba systems. Somewhat limited bandwidth but DVD playback is OK
Ricoh	Used by several IBM systems. Somewhat limited bandwidth but DVD playback is OK
O2Micro	Used by several Acer systems. Limited bandwidth, DVD playback is choppy

This information is provided as a courtesy and does not constitute a warranty of any kind about the technical capabilities of VTBook or of any other product. All trademarks are property of their respective owners or holder.

VTBook: Tested Hardware

Systems

Displays

Tested CardBus Bridges