Crap; that's what I was afraid of...thanks for the info Winterlight! Alright,
what about a Matrox TripleHeadToGo device? Has anyone used one of these
successfully for spanning across multiple monitors, and if so any
comments/caveats? Going to try and set it up soon... :P
> Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:57:13 -0700
> To: [email protected]
> From: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [H] Display to multiple monitors from a laptop?
>
> That would depend on whether your video card will support 3 monitors
> simultaneously ... unlikely in a laptop.
> >
> At 05:47 PM 4/20/2012, you wrote:> >
> >Hey guys, I'm sure I'm just being dumb and missing something, but is
> >there any easy way to display to multiple external monitors from a
> >laptop w/o having to use additional HW/SW? I feel like I'm missing
> >something obvious b/c my newish laptop (only a year old; Acer Aspire
> >with core i7 and a ATI Mobility Radeon HD5650) only allows me to
> >extend my desktop (win7 64-bit) to one monitor-and I have one
> >plugged into the VGA port and one plugged into the HDMI, yet I can
> >only still select one at a time (from the Windows Screen Resolution
> >when I right-click on my desktop btw). I thought newer laptops would
> >allow me to extend to multiple monitors, but maybe not-I've got 5 I
> >could use and I figured that won't work but at least two would be
> >nice... I think I also have a Matrox device but I know there's
> >going to issues with that based on the resolution I wanted to use
> >and the difference in monitor sizes so was hoping to keep it simple.
> >Thanks for any help/pointers! BINO
> >
>
