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Hi All - I'm wondering if anyone is successfully driving dual 20" LCD monitors at 1600x1200 with a docked T60p. I assume one of them would be DVI and the other analog. (I'm currently driving dual 20" Dell's with a Latitude D610 and want to replace it with a T60p.)

Can you do this with the mini Dock? What about the full-sized Advanced Dock without an extra vid card? The T60p has a pretty seriouus video card, it seems like a waste to get an external pci card for the big dock - it'd be great if there was a solution that just involved getting a dock.

Thanks.

Yes, you can easily run that with the dock. Put a video card in the PCI-e slot, and you can do even more.

RonS wrote:Yes, you can easily run that with the dock. Put a video card in the PCI-e slot, and you can do even more.

Thanks for the reply, Ron. Which dock are you speaking of - the mini dock or just the advanced dock?

The Advanced Dock. The mini dock does not have a PCI-Express slot.

RonS wrote:The Advanced Dock. The mini dock does not have a PCI-Express slot.

Thanks again for the reply, Ron. Here's a different version of the question - can you do this:

* with a mini dock?

* with an advanced dock (full-sized) without a PCI-X card?

Sorry for the repeated question.

Yes, you can use either the mini dock or advanced dock to drive two external monitors. One will be DVI, the other will be VGA.

Keep in mind that you can't have both external displays active AND the internal display. You can't drive more than two displays without adding another video adapter.

Thanks! That's exactly what I needed to know - and driving the two external monitors (one analog the other DVI) is exactly what I need. (The internal screen is not necessary.)

Great to hear I can get along with the mini dock. Yeeha!