Re: running 3 monitors off a laptop

[Kim White <hotmojo () andronin za net>]

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.

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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
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