Looking for Laptop help

Cryptic79 · Oct 5, 2010

I'm trying to find a laptop that, with a docking station, can support up to 4 external monitors. I'm assuming that it's not possible, but thought that the forum might know something I don't (that doesn't take much).

From my understanding the Lenovo W700 series can do 3, but that's the best I could find.

bearsfan85 · Oct 5, 2010

you would need something with a ton of graphics cards....wouldnt it make more sense to buy a decent laptop for about 600 dollars then build your own computer and put in 4 or 5 graphics cards, would probably be cheaper.

I guess what I'm getting at is what is the use for it?

Cryptic79 · Oct 5, 2010

I need a beefy mobile development machine. I only get one "real" computer from work so I need a strong laptop. I have a Lenovo W500 with a dock that does 2 external, but I would kill for quad-display as I typically have Visual Studio, SharePoint Designer, at least one browser, and at least one RDP session open at one time. It would be great to have them all active/up at one time.

bearsfan85 · Oct 5, 2010

that makes sense, kinda insane but makes sense

this talks a little about that

and maybe an alienware might have something

mikedt · Oct 6, 2010

Maybe something like this:
Matrox Graphics - Products - Graphics eXpansion Module - TripleHead2Go
Apparently drives 3 monitors from one laptop.

Martimus · Oct 7, 2010

The one issue I see with this requirement is that it pretty much will turn that laptop into a desktop. Four flat panel monitors tend to make it somewhat stationary...

Eugene · Oct 12, 2010

Since your not gaming and therefore don't need graphics speed there are USB video adapters. We all lave laptops here at work and a couple of the unix folk run those USB adapters so they can have three (or more) monitors full of putty sessions.

Cryptic79 · Oct 13, 2010

Martimus said:
The one issue I see with this requirement is that it pretty much will turn that laptop into a desktop. Four flat panel monitors tend to make it somewhat stationary...

I use a dock at my desk. That's where I'm usually at. However, I need the mobility to go to meetings or work from home. Eventually, the dock will move home as the intent is to go virtual for as many staff as possible.

The issue is that I want a single machine that can move from room-to-room, location-to-location and still have 98%+ functionality (if I don't have direct access to AD, no big deal as enough should be cached).

Eugene said:
Since your not gaming and therefore don't need graphics speed there are USB video adapters. We all lave laptops here at work and a couple of the unix folk run those USB adapters so they can have three (or more) monitors full of putty sessions.

I've thought about that. They work fine for Windows? How high of resolution can the "really" handle (not the marketing amount

)?

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