Can Surface pro run dual external monitors?

Anonymous
2013-02-05T22:36:00+00:00

With the ports configuration and specs of the announced Surface Pro, can one run  dual external monitors? By that I mean connecting two external monitors, one for primary display and one for extended display. Irrelevant what shows on the actual Surface screen.

This is the current configuration I have for my heavy laptop (with docking station) and want to recreate it if I swap to the cool Surface Pro.

I don't mind buying some port replicators, as long as the set-up works seamlessly once connected. I saw some other threads and no docking station is planned by Microsoft at this stage

Thanks for input

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Anonymous
2013-02-06T01:53:48+00:00

Greetings ManlioV,

That's a great question. Because the Surface Pro is running Windows 8, you could get a USB port hub and USB video cards and the Surface Pro would be able to install the drivers so you could hook up multiple monitors that way.

Hope that helps.

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-02-19T16:46:56+00:00

    I was curious as well as I intended to use the Surface as my desktop. Mine is working and here is my set up (bear in mind I'm not tech guy). Surface Pro has rockfish VGA adapter plugged into Surface with monitor plugged into that adapter. I have a multi-usb-hub plugged into surface and for a ha ha I plugged my old Triitton Tri-UV 150 usb adapter into the hub, downloaded the driver, restarted and voila, I am looking at IE on my right monitor while typing this, my Outlook on the middle monitor and my desktop on the left (Surface PRO) monitor. So far so good.

    Good Luck,

    Mdm

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-02-11T22:16:44+00:00

    Well that's what I was wondering (about the keyboard ports on the bottom). Hopefully they will come out with something because daisy chains and usb hubs and all of that extra trouble will be a pain for the amount of users we have.

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-02-11T21:56:10+00:00

    I take this back. Apparently, the Intel HD Graphics 4000 support multiple monitors; possibly daisy chained. Trial and error I guess.

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