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My Margi Display-to-Go VGA arrived today and I've already got it up and working. It works exactly as advertised -- insert the PCMCIA card into your laptop, install the software, hookup a monitor and reboot. When you next startup the display control panel you have a new monitor. The card will go up to 1280x1024 in 24-bit and 1600x1200 in 16-bit, but I'm limited to 1024x768 by the LCD panel I'm using and I've chosen 16-bit because that's what the rest of my desktop is using.

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The laptop I'm using this with already supports separate desktops for the internal LCD and an external monitor, in this case a tube I'm also running at SXGA+. Monitor 4 is an old laptop using Maxivista. The layout may look odd but it matches my physical layout failrly closely.

I've been remote-controlling a desktop with a triple-head Matrox Parhelia, but if you can't drag the applications from one screen to another the windows still pile up on your "main" PC. This means that the Matrox is a little wasted at the moment, though I frequently use it to host a PHP reference document on one screen while the maintenance systems it manages display on the other.

I will be adding a fifth screen to this system using the USB 2 adapter recently announced. I could probably try two Margi adapters in the one laptop, but the thickness of the adapter cable makes that look tricky:
Also, I'd be worried about heat, the card's getting a bit toasty already. And anyway, I'm running out of space for monitors. Expect a review soon of some sort of monitor stand that lets me go up.