Two monitors into one laptop?

[DaveShoelace]

You lucky chuffs, its time for a saturday evening PC question.

I have a dudey little laptop, and when I play poker I hook it up to a LCD monitor for many a table-aments (just getting my 'aments' quota in for the month).

Just bought an even bigger monitor for this task, I actually would really like to have both monitors going at the same time. If I had a desktop this wouldnt be a problem, because they have two ports with which to hook up monitors, but my lappy only has the one.

My question is, is there any sort of adapter I can buy to hook two monitors to my laptop?

[ifm]

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/145272/tritton-see2-usb-to-vga-adapter.html

[Ecosse]

Nice find, the only thing you need to watch out for in these situations is your laptop video card RAM.

If their aint enough of it, the second display will only be capable of less than optimum resolutions.

So, although the adapter says it will handle a nice res, your video card may not.  Just a word of warning.

Dougie.

[DaveShoelace]

Good stuff, cheers guys

[Grey_Pete]

Hi Dave

One other option is if your laptop has either a TV-out or a SVHS output you can use either of these to run a second screen. If the screen does not support it then you will need a VGA box to convert the output to VGA or HDMI whichever you need.

I used to use my laptop running with three screens, its own, a monitor and a projector, worked fine with all memory etc as it was designed to output to all three devices. With a USB adapter then it is using a third party item which can cause some difficulties, generally not insurmountable though.

Hope this helps a little.