Thinkpads Forum

Hi All,

First post here. Like a lot of you I bought a z61 Lenovo with the docking station that had a PCI Express slot in hopes that I could use it to replace my desktop and run my Apple 30 inch monitor and 2 Samsung 19 inch side monitors. Well, like a lot of you have experienced the hard way, I could not get a graphics card to live happily in the docking station. I went through two laptops a docking station and 10 graphics cards. I'm glad RonS got it working but I about killed myself trying.

Anyhow I'm happy to report a solution that will work for any laptop with an Express Card. Yes it really does work. I'm using right now with my Apple 30 inch and two Samsung monitors.

Buy a Magma Express Box www.Magma.com and forget about it. You'll be in display heaven. Easily run three external displays off your laptop (2 off the box, 1 off your laptop's video card). If you use your laptop screen, you'll have four displays. Setup is easy and anyone can do it. Best of all...performance is lightning fast. It feels exactly like your working on a desktop, because in fact, you are using a desktop graphics card.

I hope this doesn't sound like a sales pitch. This is useful information that can save people from wasting weeks of their life like I did!

--STeve (steve@easysite.com)

According to the website, it's not even available yet. How did you get one? And did you really pay more than $700 for one of these???

I guess just call them to ask about ordering. I ordered back in January. Maybe they're still tweaking it, but mine works great. Yes I did pay around $700. Worth every penny.

--STeve

I dont need external displays that bad to spend $700.

Hmm, location says SD and the site says, "Manufactured and sold out of San Diego, California."