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Another easy to achieve a quadruple monitor setup is with a Matrox TripleHead2Go - a small external box that lets you connect three monitors to a single video output on a desktop or laptop computer. If you have a dual head graphics card on your PC, you can hook up one monitor to one of the outputs, and a TripleHead2Go to the second output, giving you a total of four monitors. http://www.matrox.co...ucts/gxm/th2go/

And I thought that I was cool with my two monitor setup. I'm drooling over four, but I'll have to wait for the $$$

The TripleHead2Go won't work in a 2x2 monitor setup as it needs to have all 3 monitors horizontaly side by side to work properly. You lose a lot of flexibility with the Matrox box because in the Display Settings it shows up as only one display, so you can't reposition them around as you see fit. Not to mention many laptops can't drive a 4320x900 display (1440x900 x3). Also it's more expensive (330$) than 3 DisplayLink units (3x60$=180$ from eVGA) so it's not a very good alternative.

I like your article but I have a few questions. First I utilize notebooks mostly

for work and they are MAC's so my questions are:

Is there a way to set up 3 or 4 LCD displays on my notebooks?

What kind of software do I need to multfunction with the displays?

Also I have windows installed so if there is no way to do it with MAC let

me know about Windows.

Michael H Sadowski

OR!
You could buy a 50" TV for less then a $1000 and do the same thing with no lines through your screen.

http://www.pcworld.c...er/pricing.html

It all depends on your preference.