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Um, can you use two external monitors with a Macbook Pro? I have a 20" widescreen and a Macbook, sitting side by side on the monitor arms recommended here: ht

Um, can you use two external monitors with a Macbook Pro? I have a 20" widescreen and a Macbook, sitting side by side on the monitor arms recommended here: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000959.html http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000959.html I find that awesome. The arms are like $200 from Provantage; you can get a 24" widescreen monitor for $300 to $400. That puts you at $500 or $600; buy another arm for $100 and you get to use the 18" monitor too (although, again, I didn't know that worked. Are Macbook Pros even niftier than I thought?)

ericb 19y ago
On the 17-inch MacBook Pro: http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/specs.html http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/specs.html NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics processor with dual-link DVI support and 512MB of GDDR3 memory * Dual display and video mirroring: Simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in display and up to 2560 by 1600 pixels on an external display, both at millions of colors But maybe I'm misunderstanding that (as in, maybe it can't drive two external ones)? Can anyone confirm?
- ericb 19y ago
  Hmm... looks like I AM misunderstanding most likely.
  - mechanical_fish 19y ago
    Yeah, if you could drive two monitors PLUS the internal monitor I would get the Macbook Pro religion, pronto. But I'm pretty sure you can't. You've got two displays, but one of them is the Macbook Pro's built-in display. This is one reason why people bother with that big-ass 30" display. The other is that, admittedly, the 30" display is one nice piece of hardware. But pricey. As it is I plan to buy an iMac, plant it in the center of the desk, and use my monitor arms to put my secondary display to the left and my Macbook to the right. Then I have two computers and three displays. Use Synergy to share mouse and keyboard between the two computers -- I've done that between Mac and Linux before, and I presume it will work from Mac to Mac.

ericb 19y ago

On the 17-inch MacBook Pro: http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/specs.html http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/specs.html NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics processor with dual-link DVI support and 512MB of GDDR3 memory * Dual display and video mirroring: Simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in display and up to 2560 by 1600 pixels on an external display, both at millions of colors But maybe I'm misunderstanding that (as in, maybe it can't drive two external ones)? Can anyone confirm?

ericb 19y ago
Hmm... looks like I AM misunderstanding most likely.
- mechanical_fish 19y ago
  Yeah, if you could drive two monitors PLUS the internal monitor I would get the Macbook Pro religion, pronto. But I'm pretty sure you can't. You've got two displays, but one of them is the Macbook Pro's built-in display. This is one reason why people bother with that big-ass 30" display. The other is that, admittedly, the 30" display is one nice piece of hardware. But pricey. As it is I plan to buy an iMac, plant it in the center of the desk, and use my monitor arms to put my secondary display to the left and my Macbook to the right. Then I have two computers and three displays. Use Synergy to share mouse and keyboard between the two computers -- I've done that between Mac and Linux before, and I presume it will work from Mac to Mac.