I've been searching around to find how many external screens the Clevo P377SM-A Laptop can handle and with what resolution.
To be more specific I would like to know if it would be possible, using the Thunderbolt and HDMI-port, to connect 2x 2k screens + 1x 4k screen, or to connect 4x 2k screens at the same time.
Until now I couldn't find any answer and I would be very thankful if someone could help me out.
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I know at least two... but it might be able to do three with daisy-chaining via displayport.
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Meaker@Sager Company Representative
The HDMI should do 4k using 4:2:0 subsampling, the thunderbolt port can be treated as displayport 1.1a, which has a max of 2560x1600.
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Thank you for the answers, I thought the thunderbolt port was a 1.2a display-port and so able to support two 2k screens using a daisy-chaining cable. My goal is to set up a 3 monitors installation, the first in 4k resolution and the other two in 2k resolution. I had thought about a 4x 2k monitor set-up if the 4k resolution wasn't supported, but as it seems to be, I would like to know if the computer could manage the 3 screens in this resolution without too much trouble.
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The thunderbolt port SHOULD be a 1.2 display port.
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Meaker@Sager Company Representative
Thunderbolt 1 is 1.1 as far as I understand.
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Depends on if it's Thunderbolt 2 or Thunderbolt 1. Thunderbolt 2 is displayport 1.2 support. Wikipedia said that the earliest released product to support TB2 was october 22nd 2013 in a macbook, but I don't know. But thunderbolt can support DP 1.2, yes.
Edit: Thunderbolt v1 supports Displayport 1.1a. I don't know the max for that, but it's not just DP 1. -
As it seems to be a Thunderbolt 1 port, it will probably only support Displayport 1.1a as you say. By the way, D2 Ultima, I notice that your computer is in fact a Clevo P370SM3, and as the port probably didn't change between the P370SM3 and the P377SM-A, I would like to know if you tried to use your Thunderbolt-port as a Displayport. If yes what did you manage to use as maximum resolution?
What do you think of your Laptop anyway?
Meaker, I had two question about PowerNotebooks, do you send your Laptops only in the USA or do you also send them in Europe. Until now I didn't found good resellers, so perhaps you could help me out. If yes, is it possible to request a computer with an other keyboard or do you only do the standard one for US?
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I think when my laptop works it's a thing of beauty and I love it absolutely to death. Sometimes I find the CPU runs just a bit hot, but it actually can't be helped all that much really. When I go in a AC room of 25 degrees, I rarely cross 70 deg doing anything on the CPU or GPU, so it's mainly my exceedingly hot room that's doing it.
As for the displayport thing, I don't think there are any displayport using machines in this country >_>. Seriously they're STILL selling 8800GTS cards for $300 USD in shops here. I've never even seen a DVI cable in real life. Everyone here uses DVI or HDMI alone. I wish I could help more about the displayport thing, but unfortunately I can't XD. -
Meaker@Sager Company Representative
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Thank you for all your answers, there where very helpful. You help me to validate my choice.
How many external monitors the Clevo P377SM-A Laptop support?
Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Pan5, Oct 5, 2014.