Easiest way to connect two monitors to my laptop?

Easiest way to connect two monitors to my laptop?

I have a gechic onlap monitor I connect to my laptop via HDMI. I am thinking about getting another monitor.

But there are some thing I am worried about.

1. My laptop only has one HDMI port. How could I connect two monitors to it? Of the possible solutions what is best? get something to split the HDMI port? Buy a dock with multiple HDMI ports in it?

2. Some laptops I am considering getting do not have a full HDMI and I could see how this could easily get very messy with alot of adapters and cords everywhere. How do you get alot of screens without alot of mess?

3. I got the gechic monitor because it is so easy to backpack and setup. I could just get a second monitor and it would still be easy to backpack but there would be more wires and I only have one HDMI port. What is the easiest way to handle this?

 

Doesn't your laptop have a VGA output...?

 

Yeah but


VGA Image Cable
Suitable for On-Lap 1502I / 1502T / 2501B / 2501C /1002
Connect to D-Sub Port
Length：120cm
1502 VGA Cable Size

Click this picture link
http://www.gechic.com/showimage.ashx?id=506

This is their VGA cable size. It looks nothing like a VGA to me! I thought that VGA looks huge. That does not look huge. I am confused.

I thought vga looks like tihs
https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/...8t9y9JDxpwM5NYYSzIWqqJoi0gsPa1RJvlaZlkQbRRqTQ

 

Well, that image is too small to make anything out, though the important bit is the connector itself. The body right behind it can be as wide as whatever the factory wants.

If the monitor you're connecting to (or are about to buy) has a VGA connection as well as an HDMI connection, you can simply use a VGA-to-VGA cable for that and then connect your existing monitor via HDMI-to-HDMI.

 

Muchas Gracias

Let's say I get the lenovo t440s. Got VGA. Does not have HDMI. Then what would be the best way to do it ?

My monitor has a mini VGA in and a mini HDMI in. Do the vga splitter devices actually work and would that be the most elegant solution in keeping the wire mess down? IT seems like a bad idea in my mind to split a signal won't that make the signal slower or laggy?

Plus would need splitter + two full sized VGA to mini vga coverters so I wonder if people in practice do this in a smarter way

 

The T440s has a VGA port and a mini-DisplayPort port, so I'd get a VGA-to-miniVGA cable and a mini-DisplayPort-to-mini-HDMI cable to connect to the two monitors. A splitter wouldn't send two separate video feeds from your laptop to the two monitors; the two monitors would show the same thing if you did that.