DOCKING stations that allow to connect 2 monitors?

[urbantea]

I'm looking to get a docking station. I've looked at henge dock and the twelve south BOOKARC.

Which one is better?


2nd question, Both of them connect to ONE monitor.

can either connect to TWO monitors? or does anyone know of one docking station that can??

 

[Boyd01]

AFAIK, there are no simple solutions for two monitors. If you get a dock that has multiple ports, they will just mirror each other. But if you plug another thunderbolt device (like a disk) into the dock, then plug a second monitor into its pass-through port you can have two separate screens.

Matrox made a device called something like "dual head2go" and it supported two screens, however there was a big caveat. They were treated as one large virtual screen. So if you connect two 1920x1080 monitors, they would be treated as a single 3840x1080 screen. This might be fine for some uses, but not others.

You could use two Apple Thunderbolt monitors, but of course they have been discontinued.

 

[ZapNZs]

I believe some Users have accomplished this with the usage of 1 display via TB/mDP-->the monitors input and 1 display using a USB3-->VGA/DVI adapter. A dock with port replication capability could potentially do this as well, but it would depend on third party software. How well the system operates with two displays I cannot say.