I haven't used one but multi-monitor laptops is what it was made for.
You will want to make sure it will handle the monitor size, natively,
that you want to use it for.
Matrox has always been a good reliable product, but don't expect it
to perform in games.
At 12:24 PM 4/21/2012, you wrote:
Crap; that's what I was afraid of...thanks for the info Winterlight!
Alright, what about a Matrox TripleHeadToGo device? Has anyone used
one of these successfully for spanning across multiple monitors, and
if so any comments/caveats? Going to try and set it up soon... :P
> Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:57:13 -0700
> To: [email protected]
> From: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [H] Display to multiple monitors from a laptop?
>
> That would depend on whether your video card will support 3 monitors
> simultaneously ... unlikely in a laptop.
> >
> At 05:47 PM 4/20/2012, you wrote:> >
> >Hey guys, I'm sure I'm just being dumb and missing something, but is
> >there any easy way to display to multiple external monitors from a
> >laptop w/o having to use additional HW/SW? I feel like I'm missing
> >something obvious b/c my newish laptop (only a year old; Acer Aspire
> >with core i7 and a ATI Mobility Radeon HD5650) only allows me to
> >extend my desktop (win7 64-bit) to one monitor-and I have one
> >plugged into the VGA port and one plugged into the HDMI, yet I can
> >only still select one at a time (from the Windows Screen Resolution
> >when I right-click on my desktop btw). I thought newer laptops would
> >allow me to extend to multiple monitors, but maybe not-I've got 5 I
> >could use and I figured that won't work but at least two would be
> >nice... I think I also have a Matrox device but I know there's
> >going to issues with that based on the resolution I wanted to use
> >and the difference in monitor sizes so was hoping to keep it simple.
> >Thanks for any help/pointers! BINO
> >
>
