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I use a display link adapter on my macbook pro to drive a third screen. Works just great (there was a bad patch with driver installs in one of the later leopard versions but no problems with Snow Leopard).

You can even play video on it

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Good thing you're pointing that out, because I think that's a huge selling point.

I thought having two external monitors for a MBP was either not possible or pretty expensive. This dongle seems to say it's neither.

yes - really cheap. I paid about £65 I think

It doesn't seem to be widely known about - I only found out about it from comments on a forum - so I'm returning the favour :-) . Its made a big difference to my setup.

How do you drive a second screen? Or, are you counting the laptop's screen?

I do the same thing.

Screen 1: Laptop Display Screen 2: 23" Apple Cinema Display via on-board DVI Screen 3: 22" LCD or 60" Plasma (depending) via USB/DisplayLink

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