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Lots and Lots and Lots of Pixels on a Macbook

The problem:

At work, I plug my laptop into a 30” display. So far, so good, so spoiled. However, sitting unused in the corner is a forlorn 24” display. This cannot stand!

The solution is $43 from Amazon:

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Kensington display driver, with silicon by DisplayLink. Unlike the IOGear version, this one can drive widescreen and has no problem driving 1920x1200.

A quick action shot:

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For those of you keeping track at home, that’s 4480 pixels wide!

So far, speed is decent, I’m going to use it mainly to display web pages and terminal windows, so performance is good enough for that. If I can find another monitor, you can have more of ‘em attached to the same machine…

Supposed to also work with Windows, haven’t tested that.

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