Colleague of mine has something like 6 monitors connected to his laptop, and although there is lag, since he's using it just to blow up a bunch of spreadsheets, it seems to work for him.
-- Ashlar Trystan -----Original Message----- From: tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:tech-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. 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 it earlier this year, was a bit over $100. On 11/4/2016 12:59 PM, Dan Ritter 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- > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ _______________________________________________ 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/ _______________________________________________ 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/
