On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 03:23:56PM -0400, Michael Hill via talk wrote:
Good to know. If I add a ThinkPad docking station, will anything stop me from running *two* monitors at resolutions higher than 1920x1200?
If the laptop is reasonably new it should handle 3 or 4 displays and should handle even 4k displays. So with a docking station you should be able to run at least a couple of high resolution external displays using displayport or dual link DVI. With newer models and displayport, you can even daisychain a pair of 2560x1600 displays on one displayport (as long as the screens and system are all displayport 1.2 compatible), or 3 1920x1200 screens. The real limit is usually that intel only allows a total of 3 displays and nvidia usually only allows 4 in total for a system. I think AMD has allowed 6 in some cases. So a single displayport output on a laptop could go to 2 or 3 decent monitors without a docking station being required. Now how well linux supports this yet I don't know. Displayport MST support is pretty new. -- Len Sorensen