Dual monitor support for laptops

[unclerico]

I've got a fleet of Lenovo T60/61's with docking stations. My situation is that I've got to provide dual external monitor support (19" LCD's) for my traders. I've used the Matrox Dual Head adapters, but man they are pretty much the worst things I have ever seen. I've also looked at the VTBook cardbus PCMCIA cards, but I would rather use an adapter that can plug into the VGA port on the back of the docking station. Does anyone know of a good adapter that can do this? Thanks.

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[Nelviticus]

If you're wanting dual independent monitors, i.e. displaying different content on each one, then the Matrox dongle is pretty much the only solution. There may be other players out there but if they were anywhere near as good as Matrox you'd have heard of them.

I'm curious, what didn't you like about the Dual Head 2 Go? I've never used one but have heard good things about them.

Regards

Nelviticus

 

[cdogg]

Nelviticus is right. If you are trying to split the VGA output from the docking station into two independent screens, it's not going to work. You would need to use a 3rd-party video device that would replace the integrated GPU on the laptop.

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