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Two monitors up to 1 Dvi source
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Hi, I know this question has been asked before, and I'm sorry for repeating it, but I couldn't seem to find some of the threads mentioning it.
Anyway, My dad recently purchased a maxed out 15" Macbook Pro, he also purchased two 20 incers. He wants to hook up both to the macbook pro, and would like to keep the lid closed during this, I know there is a box out there that takes one dvi source and duplicates it to two, I have looked all over newegg and failed to find anything that is DVI quality.
Links? Thanks.
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I miss the days of the G5 and XPS Pentium 4 running side by side as high-end machines.
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Does this box take the two 20 inchers and make one big picture? In other words, the same image isn't being mirrored by the two displays, they come togther to make one big image, like with 2 hooked up to a G5?
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I miss the days of the G5 and XPS Pentium 4 running side by side as high-end machines.
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The splitters mirror the displays - they will show the same thing. If you leave the MacBook Pro open, the built-in display can be in extended desktop mode with the external display(s), but the external displays would still mirror each other.
If you want to use two (or three) external displays in Extended mode, the only solution I know of at this time is the Matrox DualHead2Go and TripleHead2Go.
Problem: those solutions from Matrox are VGA only. You'd need to use a DVI -> VGA adapter coming off the MacBook Pro, and hook up 2 (or 3) VGA displays to the outputs from the splitter box.
Problem2: Matrox can't be bothered to supply configuration software for Mac, so you might have to configure the displays while booted into Windoze. Or you might not, Matrox doesn't seem to have a FAQ either for asking about Mac installations.
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Last edited by reader50; Sep 24, 2006 at 05:16 PM.
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Oh yes, there is also this answer, for about $900.
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My dad was looking for a very wide solution, so in case you werent kidding, thanks, its probably going to be the box you said before..
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