MaxiVista – A fresh look at multiple monitors
I recently discovered this program by Bartels Media, a German software company, called MaxiVista. Despite the name, this has nothing at all to do with Windows Vista. It’s actually a really neat multimonitor package that allows you to use old laptops/computers as a secondary, tertiary, etc., monitor for your main PC/Laptop.
I have this configured with two monitors connected to one of my main laptops (I have two main laptops, one that leaves the house with me and one that doesn’t.). Then I have MaxiVista setup using an older laptop as a third monitor. This gives me a total of three monitors of screen space.
Quite frankly, I’m impressed with this program. There’s no latency between the monitors. I wouldn’t show video over the third monitor, but, it might actually work. I even pulled iTunes over to the third display and coverplay ran, albeit a little blocky, but it ran. Take that, Remote Desktop. Right now, I’m typing this message with Firefox in the third monitor, so that’s working nicely. I thought having two monitors was nice, but having three is really incredible. When I build my new desktop, it will probably have three or four (depending on how far over budget I run) monitors on two dual head video cards with 1GB DDR3 VRAM each. I haven’t decided which ones yet, though.
I just had to share this really neat program. I forgot exactly where I read about it, otherwise I’d give credit. Link: http://www.maxivista.com