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Hooking my mbp to 3 cpu monitors..possible?

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illest813

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Hey guys,

Forget the reasoning for doing this, but is it possible to run a setup where I can hook up my mbp to 3 lcd monitors? the idea is to have 3 20" or so computer monitors on my desk, and when I bring my laptop home , simply plug in a a vga cord and it will display my OS across 3 screens so i can have, for example, itunes on the left monitor, ms word on middle, and safari on the right...one of my friends used to have 2 monitors that did this, so I was wondering this could work..

obv I would need a splitter of some sort, but would that be it? i'd have all 3 seperate computer monitor power cords, a splitter behind them with 1 cord to my laptop?

Also, my friend used to do this with his laptop closed, however whenever I hook up my computer to a tv for example if you close it then it shuts down, is it possible to make it work like this? And lets say I started my computer in windows and played a game for example, this would only run on 1 monitor or would it display off 3?

Sorry for the lengthy post but I was just very curious to how I could set this up, and how it would work under various applications. Any input would be appreciated, thanks guys :apple:
 
Haha, yea thats some pretty crazy stuff. Is there any other adapter thats cheaper? Would it be be smart to wait until they have hdmi-capability?

Also as a side note if anyone is reading this-my internet crashed the other day, and after resetting the router my internet has been up and running and my roomates all connect fine (windows/mac both), and when I boot in windows I connect fine, but when I am in Leopard and connect, it says I am connected however safari never loads a page, it just has a white screen and the airport keeps re scanning..any ideas?
 
wow this has come along way. i got my mbp 5 months ago and the most i could find is 3 displays with the laptop and it was 2k.

might have to have an early christmass🙄
 
Hey guys,

Sorry to be off topic, but looks like my dreams are going to be cut short. I had my MBP in my bag and the handle snapped and the bag took a nice 2 foot fall on the ground, and my MBP is broken. I brought it into repair today and they said the logic board/hard drive is broken. So, now I got to use my money i wanted to do this setup and get a new mbp..

does anyone know if there is an aftermarket for the spare parts that are still functional? i know there has to be some salvage value to this, and i cant post in the marketplace (<100 posts). i just dont know exactly how to approach this.....terrible luck 🙁
 
illest813 said:
Hey guys,

Sorry to be off topic, but looks like my dreams are going to be cut short. I had my MBP in my bag and the handle snapped and the bag took a nice 2 foot fall on the ground, and my MBP is broken. I brought it into repair today and they said the logic board/hard drive is broken. So, now I got to use my money i wanted to do this setup and get a new mbp..

does anyone know if there is an aftermarket for the spare parts that are still functional? i know there has to be some salvage value to this, and i cant post in the marketplace (<100 posts). i just dont know exactly how to approach this.....terrible luck 🙁
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ouch.
sorry to here as i am buying another screen 😀 (old one is crapping) for only dual display with my mbp and was very jealous of having 3 or even 4.

imagine having 4 displays.
imagine 4 50 in displays.
oo just wet myself.

so much real-estate. with spaces too.
o my begezzes
 
illest813 said:
Hey guys,

Sorry to be off topic, but looks like my dreams are going to be cut short. I had my MBP in my bag and the handle snapped and the bag took a nice 2 foot fall on the ground, and my MBP is broken. I brought it into repair today and they said the logic board/hard drive is broken. So, now I got to use my money i wanted to do this setup and get a new mbp..

does anyone know if there is an aftermarket for the spare parts that are still functional? i know there has to be some salvage value to this, and i cant post in the marketplace (<100 posts). i just dont know exactly how to approach this.....terrible luck 🙁
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EBAY + Craigslist
 
benlangdon said:
ouch.
sorry to here as i am buying another screen 😀 (old one is crapping) for only dual display with my mbp and was very jealous of having 3 or even 4.

imagine having 4 displays.
imagine 4 50 in displays.
oo just wet myself.

so much real-estate. with spaces too.
o my begezzes
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dont wet your pants just yet, I have a 52" wide lcd samsung (as a tv), its huge in regular sized rooms, there is no way you'd fit 4 of those suckers anywhere 🙂
 
Im wondering the same thing, I have a 23" ACD but I would like to plug my upcoming MBP to my 32" tv also at the same time.

Does the matrox support independent resolutions on all monitors?
 
hey i was wondering the same thing today "MBP to my 32" tv"
well kinda
how come a 19in widescreen monitor is close to 200
and same size tv is almost 1 1/2 times that? it was even close to 2X
 
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