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How do you guys connect so many monitors to your computers?
I have a laptop with one 24 inch monitor connected and am considering buying another one, but the only solution how to connect both monitors is buying Matrox Dualhead2Go which is something like external graphic card powered with USB cable and connected with the laptop via VGA cable. So I'm not really sure about the quality since you know it's VGA cable..
One thing to keep in mind with monitor specs is the input lag time. This is seperate from response time, which affects picture quality and blurring. Input lag is the time it takes for the information/picture to reach your screen. Large input lag affects things like gaming a lot, and if it is very large would not be great for trading either, as you are already dealing with latency from your internet connections, brokerage etc.
In the bottom graph, the input lag time varies quite a lot between brands and models. Most of them would be quick enough not to have an affect on trading, (the good ones are around 40ms) but see the last one of that graph has a 150ms lag time... this could potentially be detrimental to a scalper.
That test is what made me look up input lag recently, and I found that article.
I took the test the other day on my home PC and got quite poor results. A lot slower than I remembered from quite a few years back when I was a keen gamer and was very interested in my reaction time. I wondered if it was just me getting old, but remembered LCD screens scale and add lag (back then I was using CRT screens). So I decided I would try it at work the next day on my Samsung monitor there. My results were about 40ms faster at work, consistently. So I am in the market for new monitors. (I have cheap BenQ ones presently)
