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Tenoke comments on Ergonomics Revisited - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Tenoke 23 April 2014 03:12:45PM -1 points [-]

I use a laptop with 2 external monitors (I turn the internal one off), however, it does suck that you are limited to 2.

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 23 April 2014 08:43:28PM 0 points [-]

I have a Thinkpad W530 and can connect 4 external monitors :-) But I didn't get around to setup and use this capability (it also only works with the docking station, otherwise only 2+internal).

Why do you turn off the internal one? I use a screen layout which works well with one or more external monitors (I does limit playement of the laptop though).

Comment author: Tenoke 23 April 2014 09:14:33PM *  0 points [-]

Because you can normally only use 2 monitors per video card( I guess yours has the option run 2 on an integrated and 2 on a dedicated card?) and any 1 of my external monitors is much better than the 15" laptop screen. If I had the option of running all 3 of them, I'd take it.

At any rate, nowadays I use my laptop purely as a desktop computer (external monitors, keyboard, mouse; almost never using it outside of home), so I am just going to build a desktop (with 2 graphics cards) next time around. With the level of functionality that smartphones and tablets have today, laptops are becoming obsolete for users like me.

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 23 April 2014 09:27:13PM 1 point [-]

My thinkpad has two integrated ones. One for power saving, one for gaming and can really drive 4 screens. The docking station is dumb (but expensive nonetheless).

There are external graphics cards or splitters you could use e.g. matrox triplehead2go.