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 handy.
On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 12:59 PM, Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> wrote: > 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- > > > -- John J. Boris, Sr.
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