On 29/11/15 17:42, Roman Ovseitsev wrote: > If you need 3 external monitors on top of the internal, without > discrete GPU the only option is a Skylake based laptop. It can pull > off up to 5 monitors through HDMI/DP according to the spec. AFAIK > older architectures support only 3 monitors. > However since it just got released only a couple months back, there > probably not that many laptops to choose from yet. If any at all. > Mobile CPUs with better GPU are still not released so most vendors > probably waiting for them. > As far as Linux support for Skylake there are still some issue which > you might want to be aware of if you decide to go down that road: > ACPI doesn't work with some motherboards. Not an issue though if you > don't mind disabling it in the kernel. Graphics drivers work properly > only starting with 4.3 kernel. > > As for the laptop, I've been using ThinkPad T 14" line for years and > overall the build quality, Linux support, repairability, and port > selection are rather good. Although I think the latest models have > eSATA port removed and come with only 3 USB ports, but I haven't checked. Actually, my latitude also doesn't have eSATA. I think USB3 is fast enough to not really require eSATA any more.
Shachar
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