If you're giving a presentation and want to spread your screens around, you can clone what appears on your portable's display onto each of the other two external monitors, producing three views of the original for maximum attention with minimum over-the-shoulder viewing. That's a slam-dunk. Alternately, you can keep your workspace on one of the external displays having the second as a task area for pop-ups or another app. This too is flawless. It's only when you go for that full 2560x1024 resolution that you'll probably notice something for the first time that you see every day a bezel.
Judging the Gap
All monitors, whether CRTs or LCDs, have a bezel. It's that strip of real estate that surrounds the outside of glass or panel. My 15-inch IBM LCD displays have a 1.25 inch bezel. My 19-inch Viewsonic displays have a 1-inch bezel. Depending on which I used as external monitors for the DH2G, there's a blank spot of between 2 and 2.5 inches in the middle of that 2560x1024 view.
Matrox doesn't really care. As your cursor disappears from the right side of the left screen, it simultaneously reappears on the left side of the right screen (and vice versa). From an application standpoint, that bezel doesn't exist. Visually, however, it can be very distracting. The worst offender, in my opinion, is video. Play a DVD to take advantage of your new widescreen capabilities and you could end up with the tip of an actor's nose showing up two inches way from his face with the bezel interposing itself between the otherwise contiguous body parts. It's not unendurable, but it's not pretty either.
Although the DualHead2Go itself is relatively inexpensive it does impose a hardware penalty on you. If you don't have two extra monitors lying around, you'll need to buy them. (And if you're using the DH2G for presentations, you'll also need to either lug them around with you or hope that your client has a pair to spare.)
On the other hand, the DualHead2Go is easy to recommend for an expanded desktop if you're doing presentations, most typical applications, and even graphics when the image you're attempting to work with is being overwhelmed by toolboxes and "helpful" pop-ups. Just be aware that it's not a panacea. Depending on the type of external monitors you have or buy, that "bezel-gap" will annoy you at times, especially if you try to work outside of the DH2G's intended environment. Still, the DualHead2Go is one the more resourceful solutions I've seen to the problems of an otherwise cramped display area.
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