Geek Posted April 7, 2012 Posted April 7, 2012 <div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/three-apple-displays.jpg" alt="Three Apple Displays" title="three-apple-displays" width="620" height="239" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-29236" /></p> <p>How’d you like to drive three external displays from a single MacBook Pro? That’s exactly what this weeks <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-setups/">Mac setup</a> is doing with the help of an external video card. Coming to us from journalist and blogger Pierra D, here is the hardware pictured:</p> <ul> <li>MacBook Pro 17″ (2009) – 8GB RAM and dual 256 GB SSD</li> <li>Apple Cinema Display 27″ (center)</li> <li>Apple Cinema Display 22″ (left)</li> <li>Apple Cinema Display 20″ (right)</li> <li>Additional external displays driven by <a href="http://www.villageinstruments.com/tiki-index.php?page=ViDock">ViDock External GPU</a> with a GeForce GT 120</li> <li>iPhone 4</li> <li>iPod shuffle</l> <li>Magic Mouse</li> <li>Bluetooth Keyboard</li> <li>Wacom Intuos 4M</li> </ul> <p>Anyone can install dual hard drives on a MacBook Pro by removing the built-in Super Drive and using a <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/05/19/install-an-ssd-into-the-optical-drive-slot-on-a-macbook-pro/">replacement bay to hold a hard disk or SSD instead</a>. These are offered through a variety of companies and are a good solution for individuals who don’t use the DVD drive on a portable Mac, some replacement bays even include a caddy for the SuperDrive to turn it into an external device instead.</p> <p>I hope external video cards become more common and more powerful, other than allowing for fully powered external displays like shown here, they offer some serious promise for dramatically enhanced gaming even from Macs with weaker video cards like the MacBook Air. </p> <p><em>Want your Mac setup featured? Send pictures of Apple & Mac setups to osxdailycom@gmail.com and include some brief hardware details and what you use it for. We get tons of submissions so we can’t post them all.</em></p> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/uMyZssnARpm1FT3RzCmDdIo6Wwo/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/uMyZssnARpm1FT3RzCmDdIo6Wwo/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/uMyZssnARpm1FT3RzCmDdIo6Wwo/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/uMyZssnARpm1FT3RzCmDdIo6Wwo/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=iSeJVsNVHfI:olgdjrinCj4:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=iSeJVsNVHfI:olgdjrinCj4:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=iSeJVsNVHfI:olgdjrinCj4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=iSeJVsNVHfI:olgdjrinCj4:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=iSeJVsNVHfI:olgdjrinCj4:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=iSeJVsNVHfI:olgdjrinCj4:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=iSeJVsNVHfI:olgdjrinCj4:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/osxdaily/~4/iSeJVsNVHfI" height="1" width="1"/> View the full article
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