Recommend a multi-monitor computer setup

[MacGyver]

I run a 32” in portrait mode. It’s hard to go back. 

[hipower]

5 hours ago, TripleGGG said:

This is my next setup. I posted in another thread by mistake.  Needed more monitors to see what I was doing. 

What are you trying to do...recreate the control room from "One Ping. One ping only please"?

[TripleGGG]

41 minutes ago, hipower said:

What are you trying to do...recreate the control room from "One Ping. One ping only please"?

LOL. Hadn't thought of that. Now you've given me a goal. 

 

[jgradyc]

Thanks to everyone for your help. I'm operational and using a USB C hub connecting HDMI =>HDMI port on the hub for one monitor and HDMI => USB C port on the hub for the other. However, my laptop screen is still on and shows as a 3rd monitor. Is there a way to only show the two 28" monitors? The display mode doesn't appear to give me an option of turning off the laptop screen.

Maybe I can add a bluetooth keyboard+mouse and then just close the lid? I kinda prefer my laptop keyboard. I've used these smaller keyboards so long that a full size keyboard seems uncomfortable.

Edited December 11, 2020 by jgradyc

[Defender]

1 hour ago, jgradyc said:

Thanks to everyone for your help. I'm operational and using a USB C hub connecting HDMI =>HDMI port on the hub for one monitor and HDMI => USB C port on the hub for the other. However, my laptop screen is still on and shows as a 3rd monitor. Is there a way to only show the two 28" monitors? The display mode doesn't appear to give me an option of turning off the laptop screen.

Maybe I can add a bluetooth keyboard+mouse and then just close the lid? I kinda prefer my laptop keyboard. I've used these smaller keyboards so long that a full size keyboard seems uncomfortable.

No answer for ya, but how does the monitor work thru a USB C?  Any issues with that?

[jgradyc]

8 hours ago, Defender said:

No answer for ya, but how does the monitor work thru a USB C?  Any issues with that?

Ah! I misspoke. It didn't work this way. First, I tried using a USB C hub. I connected an HDMI=> to HDMI on the Hub. Then, I connected an HDMI => USB C on the hub. The HDMI=>HDMI monitor worked.  The HDMI=>USB C on the hub did not work. 

So didn't use the hub. I did this instead.

I connected one HDMI => HDMI port on the laptop and the other HDMI to the USB C port on the laptop. That DOES work for both monitors and that's how I'm running it now.