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Notebook Driving Two Displays

Anonymous
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I have two NVIDIA cards in my deskstop system to drive two displays. I'm looking to purchase a laptop (Windows based) & I definitely want it to have the ability to drive two monitors (hard to go back to one). Does anyone have experience with a Windows laptop with the capability of driving two displays?

Thanks,

Don
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Anonymous
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all laptops on the market have that option

from P1 may be from 486 most of them have 2 display option

just get one of them ,)
Anonymous
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My ThinkPads have supported dual monitors since my first one in 1999. Keep in mind that one of the monitors is the built-in screen. Dual EXTERNAL monitors may not be an option (at least I don't know of any).
Anonymous
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Hi Don, I am using a Sager Laptop (4780) purchased from
http://pctorque.com/ & a 19" LCD from Costco. Working Great. Some adjustment due to different screen resolutions.

Some Posts about my Dual monitors:

http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=8634&highlight=#8634

http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=9338&highlight=#9338
JCovarrubias
Graphisoft Alumni
Graphisoft Alumni
Matthew wrote:
{..} Dual EXTERNAL monitors may not be an option (at least I don't know of any).
have a spare notebook/desktop computer?

http://www.maxivista.com/why.htm

I suppose you can use the external VGA from your "primary" notebook and then use MAXIVista (see below) to utilize the 2nd display of the spare notebook/desktop
http://tr.graphisoftus.com/
Jeffry Covarrubias
GS US Technical Support Team Leader
P-C2D 1.86GHz/2GB w/ 256MB GeForce 8600GTS; G4 OS 10.4.10 1GHz/1GB "[that other software] is a fancy set of electronic marker pens"
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