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Re: running 3 monitors off a laptop
From: Robin Wood <robin () digininja org>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 14:57:56 +0100
On 11 June 2012 12:07, Kim White <hotmojo () andronin za net> wrote:
Think you may find this of interest http://www.anandtech.com/show/5964/evgas-uv-plus-39-usb-30-display-adapter Obviously no-one knows how it performs, yet.
Might be worth looking at once it has been released and bedded in. Thanks Robin
-- Regards Kim White ************************************************************ Blog http://blog.kimwhite.co.za Twitter http://twitter.com/andronin ************************************************************ On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Robin Wood <robin () digininja org> wrote:Thanks for all the suggestions, looks like I'll be getting a not-cheap USB-DVI/HDMI as that seems to give the most flexible option. I looked at the Matrox and as it merges all three monitors into one I don't think it would work well for me just because all three monitors are different sizes. The laptop I'm looking at is a Lenovo and their docking station says it will drive two monitors so I'd only need one extra adapter, I can put that on the lower res monitor so there is less chance of problems. And welcome to the list Robert, keep on contributing. Robin On 5 June 2012 21:35, Matt <matt () fireantsecurity co uk> wrote:Hi Robin, I second Dans comments about USB HDMI adapters. I have had bad experiences with them in the past. Poor resolution support, buggy drivers amongst other things. Matt On 4 Jun 2012, at 09:20, dandantheitman <dandantheitman () gmail com> wrote:Morning Robin. You have a couple of options here: If you get a laptop with a highend GPU (for example a DELL Lattitude 6520 /w NVidia option) then all you will need is a docking station that has three display outputs. If you find out that the GPU will not support natively support three display outputs you still have options: (01) There are USB to HDMI display adapters that you can buy, be wary the cheaper adapters do not support higher resolution monitors so be careful there. (02) Matrox make a triple head to go, that will take a single display input and output to up to 3 displays. Now be careful with this option, browse the site first and ensure that the device will support the resolutions of the three monitors that you want. Your laptop will interpret the triple head to go as as a single monitor, so expanding windows and the like is going to cover the whole screen and it might get a little frustrating. Also if you perform any screen shares whilst using the Matrox triple head to go then the people who are going to be viewing your screen are going to need a microscope. Dan On 3 June 2012 18:37, Robin Wood <robin () digininja org> wrote:I'm getting a new laptop soon and was thinking of getting something powerful enough and with a docking station so I could replace my desktop. I've currently got three monitors on my desktop and would like to keep all three so was wondering if anyone could recommend any laptops which had docking stations which had the potential to run all three. Or are there any good external graphics cards which would let me do this? I've seen an Asus box that takes a normal graphics card and runs it through expresscard but that is a few years old and I've not seen any recent mentions of it. Most of the work I do is in vim and bash in fluxbox so I don't really need anything powerful. Any suggestions? Robin _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list Pauldotcom () mail pauldotcom com http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com-- _____________________________________________________________ "More people are killed every year by pigs than by sharks, which shows you how good we are at evaluating risk." -Bruce Schneier _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list Pauldotcom () mail pauldotcom com http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com_______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list Pauldotcom () mail pauldotcom com http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com_______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list Pauldotcom () mail pauldotcom com http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com_______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list Pauldotcom () mail pauldotcom com http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
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