I might mention the graphics card won't support connecting 2 more monitors, only one. Much less, I doubt there's more than one port (well, maybe a VGA and maybe an HDMI).
Also the computers are quite a bit better than netbooks! I have one of those too lol. I basically have three now, my core i7 desktop at home, core i7 laptop for RAND, and my little core duo netbook at home).
Good to know about the netbook part; the screen size (zero issue when using a laptop on the go) at 12" is small, close to a netbook's 10" or 11"... that was the only comparasion I was drawing. I took a quick look at the issued computers on the net, they seem fine. I think I may of used one when an AFROTC recruiter came to my home and had me take a test on his laptop. The size was similar, and it was a tablet. It also seemed to have allot of government paraphernalia on it, such as a plastic-ID password reader thing. (idk!
) I don't mean to slam netbooks - I actually bought a non-refurbished one at Costco for an unbelievable $249. So longs as you don't try to open anything besides solitare, a net browser and maybe a MS Word window, it works quite nicely (quick, fast, zero lag). The moment you try to do anything resource heavy, it, uh, vomits. Very useful for hammering through the net when I need to repair my desktop... then again that has happened only a couple of times that I recall.
Anyways about the two monitors; it is possible to do it, even if only one vga post is available (most do as I recall) on the laptop. I have seen advertisements in various PC mags for small external hardware devices that turn one VGA port into two DVI's, however I believe the popular method today for getting around the single-VGA port bottleneck is a USB-to-DVi adapter. Effectively a cheap external video card, it frees up a second display port: {Link Removed}
Also, a nice US-based company "Village Instruments" makes a clever setup for running several monitors on a laptop:
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The device connects via a laptop ExpressCard or PCCard, and effectively gives you a PCI-express slot. I believe six port video cards are available now, so (no reference to the O.P.
) you could run a Gordon Gekko setup if you'd like. BTW, is anyone getting that reference? Wall Street II? Wall Street II? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? Anyone?...
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