Comments on: REVIEW: EVGA USB VGA Adapter Adds Two or MORE Monitors to MacBook Pro

By: Is it possible to connect a MacBook to two monitors?

Is it possible to connect a MacBook to two monitors? — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 19:01:10 +0000

[...] REVIEW: EVGA USB VGA Adapter Adds Two or MORE Monitors to MacBook Pro [...]

By: Candise

Candise — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 20:46:08 +0000

Hi, this component seems to be unavailable anywhere! Do you know where I can find it?

By: John

John — Mon, 10 May 2010 02:31:49 +0000

That was going to be my next Q. my macbook white only has 2 usb ports, will it work with a powered hub? I’m assuming that it would.

I’ve got a 20″ 1680×1050 and I want to hook up my spare 17″ 1280×1024 along with the 1280×800 of the macbook on the end.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 05:12:11 +0000

I got a similar USB adaptor from macsales, but it allows me to hook up my 1920 x 1200 external monitor, which this EVGA adaptor can’t handle. I can still use the DVI out, so I could hook up 4 x 24″ monitors to my 17″ Macbook Pro. Maybe with a USB hub, I could hook up even more..

By: John P.

John P. — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 07:06:50 +0000

I’ve experienced situations where, for no reason whatsoever, the adapter stopped working for a while. It was very frustrating. Then, randomly after like a week, it would work again. I can’t explain it, but since I updated to the latest 1.5 beta driver I’ve had no problems like this.

Good luck,

John

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:06:29 +0000

Please help! I have the same setup as you conceptually… I have two 20″ monitors and a MacBook Pro circa 2007. I bought the EVGA UV Plus 16 DVI adapter, and I cannot get both external monitors to function.

Well, the EVGA EV Plus 16 used to work, but ever since I tried it with another monitor, the screen it goes to is completely black. Even when it’s the only display plugged in. I have tried every driver for this, even out-dated ones hoping that there was a bug with the current drivers.

Now I’m scavenging the internet trying to find how other people got this to work. Thanks for any insights.

By: John P.

John P. — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:34:27 +0000

You can indeed use it to mirror the monitors if you don’t want it to extend the desktop. It basically works like any other monitor under Mac.

John P.

By: univac

univac — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 03:49:08 +0000

This sounds very interesting for a project I am doing.
Here’s a question: Will it allow for the usb-VGA monitor to mirror my other external monitor? ie: I have quartz composer running on my main laptop display and need to both monitor the QC video output and send the QC video output to a projector.
Is this device (or the software) capable of doing this?

Thanks!

By: John P.

John P. — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:50:18 +0000

When the computer is closed you can still use an external monitor. Just go into the system preferences and tell it to wake up on mouse or keyboard input. Then when the monitor is plugged in close the laptop and after it sleeps hit any key on your keyboard. It will wake up and use the external monitor. :-)

John P.

By: Ron

Ron — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:09:21 +0000

Hey i wondering how did you accomplish the multi screen with your macbook closed !!!!!

By: fas

fas — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:27:50 +0000

Why not get a bigger Screen, something like 42″, will serve the purpose equally well?

By: brad

brad — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:32:37 +0000

Wow preetty amaizing I never here about it before and now what I am seeing is very cool very interesting otherwise I really want to know how you will using at the same time so many screens? I don’t know if someone could tell me about it