DIY Multi-Monitor Set up at home

Evergreen Technologies
Enterpreneurship
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3 min readDec 31, 2020

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Multi-Monitor set up at home

I am an avid watcher of the show “Criminal Minds”. I am fascinated by computer expert Garcia’s set up. I have decided to give it a try to replicate it at my home. Ever since I set it up, I found that my productivity has gone up and the number of keys hits on tab, constant screen resizing has reduced significantly. I can also react quickly to slack or if Robinhood investments move up or down.

Read on if you would like to know how I did it.

Here is my set up

set up

I have 3 computers (2 Mac mini + 1 MacBook pro), 6 monitors, 1 keyboard and 1 mouse.

All monitors and computers are controlled through one keyboard and one mouse.

Each computer is wired to 2 computers.

I have tried to use the cheapest options to make this set up affordable. I have also built this over a period of 3months and tried several different options, failed many times before coming up with the most reasonable option :-).

  1. Mac Mini (2) : $549.99 per monitor https://amzn.to/3hCp51p
  2. Macbook Pro (1) : $679.00 https://amzn.to/381ttUB
  3. Monitors (6) : $169.00 per…

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Evergreen Technologies
Enterpreneurship

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