VTBook PCMCIA to DVI and VGA Card

Village Tronic VTBook

Last Seen For: $229.95

Turn that old dusty PCMCIA port on your old laptop to a shiny new DVI port and add multiple monitors to your laptop!

The VTBook is a PCMCIA card made by a company called Village Tronic.  It is a piece of hardware that was light years ahead of its time way back in 2005 or 2006 and gave users the ability to add more monitor/desktop real estate space.  Combined with the included software, all it takes is for you to slide this card into your laptop, and the result is a whole extra monitor that you can drag windows on and off of, watch video, increase your productivity, and decrease mistakes.

 

Multiple Monitors

VTBook can add not just one monitor to your laptop, but two.  With the DualHead cable (sold seperately for around $68), you can turn that one extra video port that the VTBook provides into two.  There is also a DualHead To Go cable (with different gendered video interfaces, depending on whether or not you are planning on connecting the DualHead cable directly into the monitor, or into the monitor's cable).  Together with a dualhead cable, your laptop will be able to support a maximum of 4 screens, if you count the laptop's built-in screen and the auxiliary video port on the machine.

Applications

If you believe that your primary daily routine involves heavy computer use, adding an extra monitor of desktop space on your computer is nothing short of life changing.  Even though there have been plenty of clinical studies, you don't need a pamphlet to tell you that another monitor means faster cross-referencing, fewer mistakes when multi-tasking, and less aggravation in general from trying to juggle multiple tasks and windows in one screen.

Finance: Traders and financial consultants already know the value of having multiple monitors.  In the fast paced world of day trading and stocks and bonds tracking, you can almost never have enough desktop space.  VTBook can help those with PCMCIA slots to add a monitor or two and watch several graphs and charts simultaneously.

Medical:  Doctors, Phyisician Assistants, Dentists, Hygenists, and Nurses use many different screens every day as the medical field becomes higher tech.  Screens are used to show X-rays and test results to patients as well as patient data to doctors.  VTBook gives you flexibility, even in a mobile application.

Students: With learning materials being digitalized, students need to be able to see more than a screen's worth of material at a time.  Having multiple monitors to be able to cross reference and crunch data is important.  With student work loads being higher than ever in history, they need the tools to process and learn the information in a more effecient way: with multiple monitors.

Business:  No matter what field you are in, you can always broaden your vision.  This article was even written on a machine with three monitors while other tasks were performed.  Workloads can seem not quite so heavy when you give yourself the ability to see more at once.