Huh; this kind of blows my mind! So of all the people here on the *HWG* not
a single person who games has gone and even *tried* this setup for their
gaming?! Is it really just that out there, or was it the cost, or just not
enough game support...or was it just *gasp*, lack of interest?!
It seems like a totally cool feature/toy/enhancement for $300; the only
reason I've held off this long was b/c I had (and still have) an ATI card
(and didn't think about this when I upgraded! :P), and the fact my native
res is 1600x1200 and the TripleHead2Go doesn't go that high...*sigh*
Has anyone at least read anything about it or found some good reviews/links
on it that they wouldn't mind posting (just double-checking my own research
for any caveats/gotchas I may have missed)?
BINO
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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Christopher Fisk
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 4:40 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [H] Matrox Dual/Triple Head2Go DE?
On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, Bino Gopal wrote:
> Anyone using either of these devices? Figured I'd check if anyone has any
> personal experience with these before I plunked down the cash for them.
One of the customers we have uses one on his laptop. You have a few
options for how the display is done and it relies on the Matrox
software/drivers to make it happen, but it works well.
For some reason his doesn't save his settings in between boots, but it's
just a click selection of the display from the systray and everything is
how he likes it.
I'm not sure how expensive they are, but they do what they advertise and
they look fine to me. I'm not someone who agonizes over a picture though.
> So what it does: the device takes multiple monitors and it presents them
to
> your computer as one super-wide monitor so you can span across them for
> games that support them (the main use for it in my opinion, since you can
do
> multiple monitors for normal desktop use easily and w/o spending the extra
> $$).
My customer doesn't use them for gaming, just to get dual headed display
on his laptop docking station.
Christopher Fisk
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