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    T500 external monitor's hook-up

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by drake437, Jan 21, 2011.

  1. drake437

    drake437 Notebook Consultant

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    Ok, what is the cheapest way to hook up two 21.5 monitor's to my T500 with the standard Intel gpu? If I do display port and VGA will the laptop display still work for a total of three? Is that possible? TIA

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    drake437, Jan 21, 2011
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  2. Nandarou

    Nandarou Notebook Geek

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    no way. only with optimus three minitors on once.
     
    Nandarou, Jan 21, 2011
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  3. LegendaryKA8

    LegendaryKA8 Nutty ThinkPad Guy

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    Yeah, you won't be able to use the T500's display if you connect more than one monitor. I dock mine with an Advanced Mini-dock; have a 20.1" Dell 2001FP via DVI and a 19" HP via VGA for a quick and easy disconnect(I'm even running a parallel port printer and my old IBM Model M keyboard through its legacy ports, too). You can do a similar setup with DP and VGA if you don't want to get a dock.

    If you're needing a third display you can get a USB adapter, but it would be using an external monitor. Don't expect to game on it and I believe video playback is pretty choppy on it, but it'd work for static info like text and graphics.
     
    LegendaryKA8, Jan 22, 2011
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