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 monitors. So the laptop has stayed closed in my docking station. I now > have a larger desk setup and an extra monitor so I thought I would revisit > this. I have seen people's setup with multiple monitors with laptops as > their desktop so I know they didn't add an extra card to it. Does anyone > have any suggestions of a good/decent usb device/dongle etc that would > allow me to add a third monitor? I am running Windows 7 on the laptop in > question.It is running an INtel i7-2600 and 32gb of RAM. I understand there > is a latency when using these devices but that isn't an issue as I have > found instances where the 3rd monitor would have come in handy.
There are no good USB2 devices for this purpose. (There are many such devices.) The typical problem is that it can't even keep up with your typing. I haven't tried many of the USB3 devices, but I haven't found a good one there, either. Sorry. -dsr- _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
