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X200/Ultrabase - confirmed does good job driving 2 monitors

Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 11:33 pm
by bcherry
22" 1680x 1050 Dell and 19" 1280 x 1024 Dell Ultrasharp.
The X200/Ultrabase combination outputs video to the dual monitor setup just as well or maybe even better than office Quadro NVS equipped Optiplex 755. The Ultrabase needs a Displayport >>DVI adapter to drive one monitor, the other driven from the VGA out.
Overall the X200/Ultrabase does everything as good or better than office Optiplex machine plus easy to carry around and 9cell battery gives about 8 hours use each charge. This setup replaces 3 machines for me: office desktop, home desktop and T61 I used to lug around.
Starting with P133 Thinkpad and all machines since, this is the best. Very happy.
Just need to add some storage when a good drive for the ExpressCard slot becomes available. Another 64+ gb would do it. Any suggestions?

X200: 2gb RAM, 160gb/7200rpm, 2gb turbo memory, Vista Business SP2 Beta

Re: X200/Ultrabase - confirmed does good job driving 2 monitors

Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 6:38 pm
by bcherry
Whoops. While I was sleeping MS uninstalled Vista SP2 Beta. Now back to SP1!

Re: X200/Ultrabase - confirmed does good job driving 2 monitors

Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 10:49 pm
by rek
Can the Displayport connector drive a monitor that requires dual-link DVI? (eg most 30" monitors)

Re: X200/Ultrabase - confirmed does good job driving 2 monitors

Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 12:19 pm
by KajaSheen
@bcherry:

What did you do to get both DisplayPort and VGA to work? Do you have to disable the Notebook Display? Or is maybe the Presentation Director screwing with me, because I am not able to get DisplayPort and VGA to work at the same time!