Thursday, March 2, 2006
DailyTech: Matrox Announces TripleHead2Go Multi-Monitor Device
Posted by Jason Dunn in "THOUGHT" @ 04:00 PM
"Matrox has announced its new TripleHead2Go external box which builds on the foundation set forth by the previous DualHead2Go. TripleHead2Go allows users to join three monitors together with a combined resolution of up to 3840x1024...The palm-sized box uses what Matrox describes as a Graphics eXpansion Module (GXM). This allows the end-user to still use his or her existing graphics accelerator with the added functionality of external multi-monitor support."
I haven't been a fan of Matrox graphics cards since, oh, 1998 or so, but I'm a big fan of multiple monitors, and this looks like a killer solution. My main PC died on me a few weeks ago, so I've been working on my 17" laptop, and really missing multiple monitors. I feel so...slow on a single monitor. I'm not sure if this would be a solution in all cases though - it looks like it might just take a single monitor signal and blast it across three monitors. So while that might be good for a flight-sim game, it might not work under Windows and allow three different programs to be open.
I haven't been a fan of Matrox graphics cards since, oh, 1998 or so, but I'm a big fan of multiple monitors, and this looks like a killer solution. My main PC died on me a few weeks ago, so I've been working on my 17" laptop, and really missing multiple monitors. I feel so...slow on a single monitor. I'm not sure if this would be a solution in all cases though - it looks like it might just take a single monitor signal and blast it across three monitors. So while that might be good for a flight-sim game, it might not work under Windows and allow three different programs to be open.
