On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 11:28:00 -0500, (PeteCresswell) wrote:

I've got to take a second person laptop shopping on Wednesday.

For this one, cost is not a consideration, small size is, and I can
imagine them going for a Surface pro or one of the Asus Surface devices.

The Questions:

- Can the Surface pro support more than one external monitor.
I don't really expect so... but...

- With the Surface Pro attached to an external 1920x1200 monitor,
can the user see desktop on one screen and other stuff on
the second screen? i.e. Does it work like XP/7? I'm pretty
sure it will, but the penalty for my telling somebody wrong
would be severe.... -)

To help you with your decision on which device you should choose, rather
than answer your question I would like to direct you to this link:
http://www.winbeta.org/news/surface-...g-update-works
.. Apparently, Microsoft has one hell of an issue with the Surface Pro line
and has yet to fix it. Meanwhile, ASUS motherboards are considered the
best on the market and even their cheapest monitors perform beautifully
for gaming systems.
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"That is incorrect. GNU/Linux is worse then communism because at least in
a communist country you would be paid a wage for your work. In GNU/Linux
your work helps some fat cat on wall street earn bigger dividends in his
stock portfolio because nobody had to pay for your work.

Of course, Linus is a big winner since he earns millions of dollars on the
sucker programmers free labor." - Michael Bachmann