I've seen lots of articles on running multiple monitors but that's only useful once you have them up and running.

Finding information on the hardware is not so easy. I've now tried Matrox. Yucky. Wintars. Unsuccessfully. USB docking stations from Toshiba (with some success) and Asus (less so).

I now have 3 Samsung USB 3 monitors which work well although they are at times a little flakey and take a few minutes of turning on and off to get the whole lot working. The info on the Samsungs was short on specifics but I gather they use DisplayPort internally.

So how about a decent article on the hardware to extend a Laptop's desktop?