Dual graphics card with separate LCD display

gonzobobo

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I need 3 displays. As an MC, I want to manage presentations by viewing the laptop LCD (#1). I want the presenter to view a monitor (#2) in which he sees powerpoint presentation mode. I want the slides without notes to run through a projector (display #3) for the audience. The Lenovo Y510 with dual graphics has that setup. What other computers can do that?

I do this only 3 times a year. Everything else is minimal: minimal processing speed, small hard drive, small LCD. So I'm also expecting a low price and hoping for a small lightweight laptop.

Is that popular and available? Will any laptop labeled dual graphics card work?
Paul
 
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I ran across your other post, which I had to delete since it was a hijack and a bump. But since you have your own thread I can help you here.

Dual graphics is not what you think it is. It is not simply 2 graphics cards and doesn't increase the number of monitors you can use so is irrelevant in what you want. But just an fyi, it's when you can crossfire an amd apu's igpu with an amd dgpu so neither the lenovo nor alienware you mentioned is dual graphics. Also having multiple graphics cards on a laptop does not increase the amount of monitors you can use since they don't have video ports like a desktop graphics card.

Any gpu in the past 5+ years can do at least 2 monitors, with most modern doing 3-6. The issue with laptops is not...

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I ran across your other post, which I had to delete since it was a hijack and a bump. But since you have your own thread I can help you here.

Dual graphics is not what you think it is. It is not simply 2 graphics cards and doesn't increase the number of monitors you can use so is irrelevant in what you want. But just an fyi, it's when you can crossfire an amd apu's igpu with an amd dgpu so neither the lenovo nor alienware you mentioned is dual graphics. Also having multiple graphics cards on a laptop does not increase the amount of monitors you can use since they don't have video ports like a desktop graphics card.

Any gpu in the past 5+ years can do at least 2 monitors, with most modern doing 3-6. The issue with laptops is not having enough video ports (vga, dvi, etc) for external displays. But you can get around this by using usb adapters even when the gpu doesn't support that many monitors. They don't really use the laptop's gpu but I won't go into how it works. So pretty much any laptop can do what you want.
 
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