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.
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