MacBook Air with Multiple Monitors?

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Diego443

Hi all,

I have a MacBook Air 13'' and only one thunderbolt connection. I am planning to have 2 additional monitors and the laptop screen just for order entry.

However I need to make sure that I actually have 3 separate windows where I can simply just scroll to the very left and am on my laptop screen and if I scroll to the very right I will be with my pointer in monitor 3.

First question is if this is even possible and secondly what kind of thunderbolt hub I need as I want to have 2 outgoing hdmi cables to the monitors.

Thanks in advance!

Diego
 
Yeah, it's possible but somewhat expensive. You need to daisy chain two of these docks:


The basic setup is this:

two-dock-setup.gif


Here's a video showing the overall setup:

 
Thx for putting in the effort to help me. There is absolutely no way I could afford this.

Is there no other option? Or cheaper hdmi splitter.
 
No, if you bought a thunderbolt to HDMI adapter and then plugged an HDMI cable from that adapter into an HDMI splitter, and then connected the two monitors, all you would end up with is two monitors displaying the exact same thing.
 
He didnt say that. I have a macbook pro with 3 external monitors. shouldn't be too hard to do this on an air. check out display link adapters
 
Sorry misformulated. You are right but how much does one of those display link adopters cost. Barons solution is just too expensive
 
Right tool for the right job:

Desktop - Video Card(s) - Multi monitors
(no driver conflicts)

Laptop / Mac air - remote - traveling - perhaps one external monitor without adapters.
(OK)

Lap top / Mac air - multiple adapters
(potential driver conflicts)

KISS - Why complicate things
 
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