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