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 Harvey (lopser) < lop...@nedharvey.com> wrote: > 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 > laptops. I don't know how you define "good," it's probably lacking the GPU > power to run video games and whatnot, but the USB3 bus has plenty of > bandwidth. These people were running CAD tools and desktop applications. No > special steps to dumb down graphics or anything like that. I was literally > never made aware of a single complaint or technical issue; I would have to > summarize people were simply satisfied (because I was made aware of, and > included in **everything** there). My expectation is that you can easily > and brainlessly go out and buy basic commodity cheap junk, and it will work > for most purposes, other than video games and heavy GPU rendering stuff. > > > > > > > > *From:* tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org] > *On Behalf Of *john boris > *Sent:* Friday, November 4, 2016 12:41 PM > *To:* tech@lists.lopsa.org > *Subject:* [lopsa-tech] Looking to add a third monitor > > > > 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. > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > -- > > John J. Boris, Sr. > > > -- John J. Boris, Sr.
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