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Last week in Engadget there was an review of the new Matrox Triplehead2Go system.

Here is the excerpt:

“Just when we thought adding a second external display to our laptop would be the ultimate in desktop luxury, Matrox has thrown us for a loop with the TripleHead2Go, a box that — you guessed it — lets you add up to three external displays to almost any Windows PC. Like Matrox’s earlier DualHead2Go, the device connects to your computer’s VGA port and tricks the PC into believing that the three 19-inch displays now gracing your desk are actually one mammoth 3840×1024 display (and, yes, you can still use your laptop display, giving you a total of four screens). The TripleHead will be available in April for $299, which seems like a small price to pay to get behind three screens. Of course, that price doesn’t include the actual displays themselves — or the bigger desk you’ll need to buy to hold them.”

Since I moved to a two screen setup a while ago, I have a laptop and have been limited by what it can do. You can also do this with a desktop but you don’t have to set up an expensive gaming rig to accomplish the same thing.

Since I am moving to the MacBook pro, the DVI connection would still work with the converter cable and it you have a few 19″ monitors laying around, this would do the trick. You could buy a 30″ Apple Display, but then again you are bootstrapping, right?

The reason I put this in GoGo is the use of multiple monitors that increase your efficiency as an entrepreneur. For example, if you were writing your business plan you could have a browser on one monitor for competitive analysis, word on the other for your plan and excel on the other with your financial model.

Pretty cool, huh?

Tags: Matrox, TripleHead2Go

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Written by Steven Fisher on March 17, 2006

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