laptop with two extra monitors?

A while back, I discovered that my laptop's graphics driver supported an additional monitor as an extension to the desktop via a VGA cable. Major kudos, two screens is awesome, and way cheaper than my original plan of trying to find a large monitor on the cheap (which isn't cheap at all compared to $120 for a refurb monitor).

Well, my family just got a new computer with a shinny new monitor, leaving a 15" SXGA monitor up for grabs, and I'm trying to think of the easiest way to hook THAT up to my laptop so I can have a laptop running two additional monitors as desktop extensions. My laptop has only one VGA port, and the driver itself (for an ATI Mobility 9700) is already supporting the laptop screen and the one additional monitor which I believe is the highest number of monitors it can support.

I searched the web for cool ideas, and found things like Maxtor Head2Head and stuff that seems like it would work great if the two additional monitors I had were identical. Alas, they are not, the monitors arn't the same brand, resolutions, or even the same sizes with each other. I found another little bit of software where via ethernet I could use a POS computer and a monitor jacked to it as a third monitor. However, I don't really have a POS computer on hand to use. Suppose I could find one if I really wanted to though...

Anyone got any clever, slick ideas? Two monitors as desktop extensions to a laptop, no monitor is the same in any respect, both are VGA only, laptop can support only one external monitor.

 

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You might be able to get it to work with both monitors showing the same thing with an external device...but if your on board video only supports one extra monitor, I'm pretty sure your not going to be able to extend your desktop to both monitors. With a desktop, you could always get a new video card that supports 3 monitors, but you pretty limited with a laptop.

 

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yeah, figured that, i'm just wondering what all these devices out ther that claim to "merge" monitors together so a computer sees a number of them as one monitor with an ungodly-high resolution that they magically make your computer able to support. that seems to be how that Maxtor stuff works, but I'm not totally sure.

 

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