http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/matrox-triplehead2go-gives-your-laptop-3-more-screens/ Engadget Comments for Matrox TripleHead2Go gives your laptop 3 more screens http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/matrox-triplehead2go-gives-your-laptop-3-more-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/matrox-triplehead2go-gives-your-laptop-3-more-screens/Mar 2nd 2006 2:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/matrox-triplehead2go-gives-your-laptop-3-more-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/matrox-triplehead2go-gives-your-laptop-3-more-screens/having not picked up a calculator to work this out, i may be totally wrong, but it just seems strange.]]>Mar 2nd 2006 3:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/matrox-triplehead2go-gives-your-laptop-3-more-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/matrox-triplehead2go-gives-your-laptop-3-more-screens/Mar 2nd 2006 3:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/matrox-triplehead2go-gives-your-laptop-3-more-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/matrox-triplehead2go-gives-your-laptop-3-more-screens/Mar 2nd 2006 3:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/matrox-triplehead2go-gives-your-laptop-3-more-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/matrox-triplehead2go-gives-your-laptop-3-more-screens/
-Carl]]>Mar 2nd 2006 3:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/matrox-triplehead2go-gives-your-laptop-3-more-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/matrox-triplehead2go-gives-your-laptop-3-more-screens/Mar 2nd 2006 3:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/matrox-triplehead2go-gives-your-laptop-3-more-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/matrox-triplehead2go-gives-your-laptop-3-more-screens/
My only concern is how it would work on widescreen LCD's... I get the feeling the answer is "it wouldn't".

At the helpdesk I used to work at many of the shift supervisors and "senior" techs had dual-monitor support on Matrox dual-head cards and 19" monitors. They came in *very* handy. You don't need special software, at least not under XP, it comes with plenty of multi-monitor support. You can either setup each monitor as a seperate desktop and the cursor jumps between them as you move it, or you can spread the desktop between them (as seen in the pics above).

For the record, if you want to watch movies, this is a terrible setup, that split between the monitor is very, very annoying, no matter how thing the edges of the monitor and how close they are, it's worse than the black bars when watching a widescreen movie on a normal TV. You could watch a movie on one monitor and do desktop stuff on the other 2 or 3, but I wouldn't recommend spreading it.]]>Mar 2nd 2006 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/matrox-triplehead2go-gives-your-laptop-3-more-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/matrox-triplehead2go-gives-your-laptop-3-more-screens/Mar 2nd 2006 4:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/matrox-triplehead2go-gives-your-laptop-3-more-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/matrox-triplehead2go-gives-your-laptop-3-more-screens/Mar 2nd 2006 5:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/matrox-triplehead2go-gives-your-laptop-3-more-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/matrox-triplehead2go-gives-your-laptop-3-more-screens/
That being said, 4 x 1280x1024? I'll take two, please. Thatd be quite shwag, but a few things:

Thats some serious resolution for a laptop videocard, I can't really see anything short of top of the line playing video across all of that without artifacts and pixelizing, unless it just doesnt do anti-aliasing, but does anyone do without AA anymore?

And whats the big deal about DVI and VGA? I run dual VGA and it looks fine, my other computer with DVI looks no better. Am I doing something wrong?]]>Mar 2nd 2006 5:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/matrox-triplehead2go-gives-your-laptop-3-more-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/matrox-triplehead2go-gives-your-laptop-3-more-screens/
That being said, 4 x 1280x1024? I'll take two, please. Thatd be quite shwag, but a few things:

Thats some serious resolution for a laptop videocard, I can't really see anything short of top of the line playing video across all of that without artifacts and pixelizing, unless it just doesnt do anti-aliasing, but does anyone do without AA anymore?

And whats the big deal about DVI and VGA? I run dual VGA and it looks fine, my other computer with DVI looks no better. Am I doing something wrong?]]>Mar 2nd 2006 5:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/matrox-triplehead2go-gives-your-laptop-3-more-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/matrox-triplehead2go-gives-your-laptop-3-more-screens/Mar 2nd 2006 6:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/matrox-triplehead2go-gives-your-laptop-3-more-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/matrox-triplehead2go-gives-your-laptop-3-more-screens/
ok i understand this is made to help trick a computer to treat all the screens as it would one screen but come on... anyone that seriously needs multiple screens would buy a graphics card for their desktop that supports multiple screens. why would anyone want to do this with their laptop besides the novelty. laptop graphic cards are just to underpowered to use this to its potential, while for desktops its to expensive and impratical]]>Mar 2nd 2006 6:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/matrox-triplehead2go-gives-your-laptop-3-more-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/matrox-triplehead2go-gives-your-laptop-3-more-screens/Mar 2nd 2006 9:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/matrox-triplehead2go-gives-your-laptop-3-more-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/matrox-triplehead2go-gives-your-laptop-3-more-screens/Mar 2nd 2006 10:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/matrox-triplehead2go-gives-your-laptop-3-more-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/matrox-triplehead2go-gives-your-laptop-3-more-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/27/new-zenview-offers-six-24-inch-displays-as-one/
I know I want one :)]]>Mar 3rd 2006 7:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/matrox-triplehead2go-gives-your-laptop-3-more-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/matrox-triplehead2go-gives-your-laptop-3-more-screens/Mar 3rd 2006 7:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/matrox-triplehead2go-gives-your-laptop-3-more-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/matrox-triplehead2go-gives-your-laptop-3-more-screens/Mar 3rd 2006 3:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/matrox-triplehead2go-gives-your-laptop-3-more-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/matrox-triplehead2go-gives-your-laptop-3-more-screens/Mar 3rd 2006 3:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/matrox-triplehead2go-gives-your-laptop-3-more-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/matrox-triplehead2go-gives-your-laptop-3-more-screens/Oct 16th 2008 12:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/matrox-triplehead2go-gives-your-laptop-3-more-screens/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/02/matrox-triplehead2go-gives-your-laptop-3-more-screens/Thanks]]>Feb 18th 2007 10:49AM