2 external displays on notebook?

[thecomputeraddict]

I want to setup dual external monitors, For the second monitor which would more likely be a 17" or 22" inch would this http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815101001 work? Would I notice any lag? My laptop isn't used for gaming. Would it cause the laptop to heat up more?

 

[RaynQuist]

It'll work. If you're on XP it's pretty much smooth; if you're on Vista it's not so smooth. It does use some CPU, not much. It does work awesome for me. Driver keeps getting updated. I've had this for 4~5 months and I saw the driver updates fixing pretty much all the quirks I encountered, and those quirks are so minor I was unmotivated to update the driver. I feel the DisplayLink team just goes out of their way to make everything work awesome. In fact the plug/unplug behavior is superior to that of my VGA port (nVidia). If you've look through their driver change logs, the stuff they've fixed / are fixing are just incredible corner case quirks. I mean, they even got it working under Vista's 1-display-driver model, with aero. This thing is quality, too bad it doesn't do 1920x1200.

 

[thecomputeraddict]

So it would be fine for word documents and maybe videos. I tend to do work on my laptops main monitor and have the information open on my external along with a torrent tv show. How much of the cpu does it use? I have a T8300 running at 2.4ghz.

 

[DudeItsMe]

You will be fine. It will cause more heat, and you probably can't do it gaming.

I ran used my Lenovo x61tc to run a slideshow at a wedding for about 7-8 hours. The main display was off, the TV was running 1920 x 1200 (huge for my little tablet). After several hours, it was no longer SMOOTH (slight lag in animations), but definitely still ran fine.

Your processor is much more powerful (dual core 1.6 ghz here), I'm assuming your video card is also. You'll have no problems for what you are doing.