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TruckerJo, How do you do that kind of set up for 2 screens one for map etc? I would love to do something like that! Do you have a pic that can be sent of your set up?
Thanks!
Just plug a monitor into my vga port and then go to display settings in control panel and extended or clone my display to it, u should be able to do that on any laptop as it is controlled through window and not your graphics utility
If you want to run 2 different different screens then you need a laptop (or desktop) that has 2 graphic cards... this could consist of on board graphics chip along with a graphic card, SLI ext..... this will allow you to run 2 screens separately and not just cloning a screen...
Now there are program that also help out and make things a little easier such as [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link.
To bigblue
You would be amazed "IN THE AMOUNT OF TIME SAVED" a good laptop gps will provide you.... If you have "LIVE" as I do you will know ahead of time (in areas that provide it) that traffic is going slow, indicated by green ,yellow and red roads... Thus giving you an alternative route if there is one...
Far as getting to a customer... Well Copilot Truck is correct about 90% of the time but you cannot Solly rely on it alone... New roads always being built every day or the town just has poor mapping......
But I can honestly say and I do think everybody who uses programs such as Copilot streets and maps ext... will say it "saves" them time...
And yes copilot "truck" does use "truck route" but again it does not know all local non truck routes... always follow local signs...
yeah, on my desktops i have a 3monitors plugged into 1 of them that required a separate video card plus the original that came with itgiving me the 3 monitor setup works great when i have all my charts up chat rooms open
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12.13.2007
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