17" laptop with dual 30"s

[MINETZ]

So im looking to buy a new 17" monitor /w the specs to be really fast to run all my poker programs at once with minimal lag and the capabilities to run dual 30" monitors out of it. how do these specs look, will everything work smoothly?

My Components
SYSTEM COLOR Jet Black edit
PROCESSOR Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T7500 (2.2GHz/800Mhz FSB/4MB cache) edit
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium Edition edit
DISPLAY High Resolution, glossy widescreen 17.0 inch display (1920 x 1200) edit
VIDEO CARD 256MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8600M GT edit
MEMORY FREE! 2GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 at 667MHz edit
HARD DRIVE FREE! 160GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM) edit
OPTICAL DRIVE CD writer / DVD player (Combo Drive) edit
WIRELESS NETWORK CARDS Dell Wireless 1390 802.11g Mini-Card edit
INTEGRATED WEBCAM No Webcam Option edit
BATTERY OPTIONS 9-cell Primary Battery and 9-cell additional Lithium Ion Battery edit
SOUND OPTIONS High Definition Audio 2.0 edit

[kerowo]

Very few lappies will run one 30" monitor out of the box, basically only the MacBook Pro as far as I know, let alone 2. You are going to need some kind of external video card. Probably be better off getting a desktop.

[gobby888]

find out whats the maximum resolution that 8600M can support on the external VGA/DVI port. For a 30" monitor, isnt that res 2500xsomething?

As kerowo says, most laptops have only one video output.

[ToeHold]

You need dual-link DVI to drive a 30" monitor. The Macbook Pro supports this. Don't know of any other laptop that does.

No laptop will drive dual 30" that I'm aware of.

[MINETZ]

http://www.nvidia.com/object/geforce...techspecs.html

under tech specs it says "Advanced Display Functionality

* Dual-link DVI outputs for digital flat panel display resolutions up to 2560x1600"

does this mean it should support two 30' when i connect them both and close the lid, on the 1720 it has two different inputs.

[kerowo]

No, only one, you would need two to power two monitors. I would double check with a salesperson that it will run a 30" monitor before you order it though.

[MINETZ]

it has two different inputs, the white one and the blue one, and the video card supports 2560x1600. why would it not support both?

[Josem]

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it has two different inputs, the white one and the blue one, and the video card supports 2560x1600. why would it not support both?

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i don't think you can send 2560x1600 pixels down a vga cable. even if you did, it would look awful.



having a laptop run even one 30" monitor is unusual.

running two is really pushing it; you'd need a very special setup to run two of those things even on a desktop.

[funkyworms]

Even the flagship laptops from elite companies like Falcon Northwest and Sager will not support dual 30" monitors.

[NU Star]

Are you opposed to getting a desktop? If you're going to have $3000 in monitors, you might as well splurge an extra $500-800 on a desktop.