Re: [lopsa-tech] Looking to add a third monitor

2016-11-07 Thread Ashlar Trystan
-boun...@lists.lopsa.org] On Behalf Of Doug Hughes Sent: Friday, November 4, 2016 10:12 AM To: tech@lists.lopsa.org Subject: Re: [lopsa-tech] Looking to add a third monitor The Dell USB3/USB-C video box can drive up to 3 external monitors. I just drive one big 36" curved monitor, but it works well.

Re: [lopsa-tech] Looking to add a third monitor

2016-11-05 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (lopser)
Not sure what caused Dan and Nick's complaints, but as early as 4-5 years ago (ish) I was surprised that so many of our engineers at work were simply going out and buying commodity USB3 video adapters from microcenter and best buy, to add third and fourth 1080p monitors to their dell latitude la

Re: [lopsa-tech] Looking to add a third monitor

2016-11-05 Thread john boris
Ned, I figured as much but over the years I have been stuck at a command prompt and have not had the time, nor the drive, to stay up on things. Thanks for the reply. All I want is another option as of all the teleconferences I am on wasting my time. On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 10:25 AM, Edward Ned Har

Re: [lopsa-tech] Looking to add a third monitor

2016-11-04 Thread John Stoffel
I'm a long time user of Synergy, and awesome tool! john> Your option 3 sounds viable as could do that.  john> On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 1:22 PM, Nick Peelman wrote: john> Concur with Dan.  There isn’t a solution to this problem that approaches john> acceptable, in my experience. USB ad

Re: [lopsa-tech] Looking to add a third monitor

2016-11-04 Thread john boris
Nick, Your option 3 sounds viable as could do that. On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 1:22 PM, Nick Peelman wrote: > Concur with Dan. There isn’t a solution to this problem that approaches > acceptable, in my experience. USB adapters “work”, but can [read: will] > cause system instability, unpredictable g

Re: [lopsa-tech] Looking to add a third monitor

2016-11-04 Thread Nick Peelman
Concur with Dan. There isn’t a solution to this problem that approaches acceptable, in my experience. USB adapters “work”, but can [read: will] cause system instability, unpredictable graphics behavior, and generally terrible experience (unless your standards are rock-bottom-low). Your options

Re: [lopsa-tech] Looking to add a third monitor

2016-11-04 Thread Cole Lavallee
I've had really good luck with the Diamond BVU195 USB 2.0 adapters - both with Windows and Mac http://www.diamondmm.com/diamond-bvu195-usb-external-video-display-adapter.html On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 12:41 PM, john boris wrote: > I currently have a dual monitor setup. I had planned to use the lap

Re: [lopsa-tech] Looking to add a third monitor

2016-11-04 Thread john boris
Dan, Thanks. I understand that. I mostly need it for comparing spreadsheets or even having another window open for monitoring. This past year I have been on so many conference calls that I got fed up sliding windows back and forth where that third one to handle the conference call would have been h

Re: [lopsa-tech] Looking to add a third monitor

2016-11-04 Thread Doug Hughes
The Dell USB3/USB-C video box can drive up to 3 external monitors. I just drive one big 36" curved monitor, but it works well. It's also going to depend upon the video capabilities of your particular laptop. (You need USB-C support in the laptop to make this work properly). The box, when I got

Re: [lopsa-tech] Looking to add a third monitor

2016-11-04 Thread Dan Ritter
On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 12:41:12PM -0400, john boris wrote: > I currently have a dual monitor setup. I had planned to use the laptop > monitor as my third monitor and have two monitors connected to the two DVI > ports. I quickly found out that the video card on the laptop only supported > 2 monitor