You have to check the specs. Most support a VGA output to an external monitor which displays the same as the normal screen. However, that is not "dual monitor" in the extended desktop sense.
yeah that 's what I thought too. I am looking for a laptop that you can plug the LCD in and you've got 2 screens for trading.
I consider myself rather clueless in computing but extended desktop apparently doesn't mean dual monitor support ! From Dell glossary: Extended Desktop Allows two displays to have independent resolution, color depth and refresh rates (i.e. notebook panel native resolution of 1024 x 768 running a flat panel monitor with a resolution of 1600 x 1200).
The NVIDIA Geforce Go cards are are fairly standard laptop card and they all support dual screen capability. Runningbear
i am using a Dell Inspirion 7500. would i be able to attach another monitor to this laptop? thanks in advance.
why don't you get a desktop for that purpose? a nice dell w/17lcd goes for 600 now days, buy a good videocard that supports 2-3 monitors. if you really want 2-3 monitors, lookup DELL's website with 2-3 panel LCD screens with 1 analog/digital plug. i think they have up to 6 kinda expensive, but it just might be worth it
True. However, most reps I've spoken with at Digital Tigers and Margi, tell me that you can expect issues while running the Nvidia card with their products. Making the 3rd monitor option unachievable. Also, a Texas Instuments card bus is a must for both margi and digital tigers products to work properly also. It's very hard to get accurate info on the card bus from Dell Reps (i had several different stories given to me). It took me quite a bit of research to finally find out that the Insperion 9100 I got has a TI card bus before I made the purchase. To achieve 3rd independent monitor on notebook you should have following: XP PRO OS ATI video card TI card bus These items are non-conflicting, and should keep system stable when using margi or digital tigers products for the 3rd monitor. -- Z