When Intel Macs make you see double or triple
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Maxtor launches two external graphics boxes that extend the display of a Mac for two or three screens.
One year after the PC, Mac Matrox adapts to its boxes to display the desktop of Mac OS X and its applications on two monitors, withA DualHead2Go, or three screens, with the TripleHead2Go. The user can easily have windows of different software in use and navigate between them without wasting time. 
Behind this miraculous little box which plugs into the video output, an ingenious idea: to believe in the Mac and its operating system they calculate the image to a giant screen. Then the housing divides the video stream to display in two or three, depending on the model. For example, the graphics card will calculate a resolution of 2560 × 1024 pixels. The DualHead2Go will divide into two screens with a resolution of 1280 × 1024 pixels. Childish (apparently) and great!
The concept is attractive, and discrete cases. Yet few limits could annoy the best and sorrows. First, these devices are only compatible with Intel Macs. Previous generations, equipped with PowerPC processors, can forget their dreams of greatness. Then, all Intel Macs are not equal when it comes to  " xHead2Go". Thus, the MacBook and Mac mini can only work with the DualHead2Go. Their graphics chip shared memory (64 MB) is not powerful enough to manage a triple display.
Nothing to complain as long as the ease of use should be greatly improved with two screens, especially in the case of the MacBook, which the original screen can still be used. Finally, the last detail, it is necessary to have a DVI to VGA adapter to use these Matrox products, a legacy of the PC world probably, where the VGA is still very present. As an indication, Apple sells on its Store (online store) a mini-DVI to VGA for its laptops charged 19 euros.
Despite these few small points which push back the first enthusiasm, the DualHead2Go (155 euros) and TripleHead2Go (298 euros) should at least find a buyer with other designers and video editors, often entangled in the windows of the many applications that are for everyday computing.
Source: 01net
