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

Surface | Surface Pro | USB-C

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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
    2013-02-20T16:29:01+00:00

    You can use the HDMI port and the DisplayPort on this docking station below. You can even connect to the built-in miniDisplayPort on the Surface Pro to get the 3rd monitor.

     

    DisplayLink Enables Docking Station Expansion for Microsoft’s Surface Pro Tablet

    http://www.bloomberg.com/article/2013-02-19/arYbDgKzPvVk.html

     

    Picture of the USB 3.0 Docking Station

    http://mms.businesswire.com/bwapps/mediaserver/ViewMedia?mgid=358627&vid=5&download=1

     

     

    Great find Joe! I'm pretty excited about this. I wish Microsoft would have left the keyboard connector open to support a docking station but I guess that would kind of get messy having to remove the keyboard to dock it... Still a great solution having only 1 usb cord to plug in to make it all work.

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-02-19T21:45:00+00:00

    You can use the HDMI port and the DisplayPort on this docking station below. You can even connect to the built-in miniDisplayPort on the Surface Pro to get the 3rd monitor.

    DisplayLink Enables Docking Station Expansion for Microsoft’s Surface Pro Tablet

    http://www.bloomberg.com/article/2013-02-19/arYbDgKzPvVk.html

    Picture of the USB 3.0 Docking Station

    http://mms.businesswire.com/bwapps/mediaserver/ViewMedia?mgid=358627&vid=5&download=1

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  3. 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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