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 <[email protected]> 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 > [email protected] > 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 [email protected] http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
