The $1995 Matrox M9188 comes with 2GB of video RAM, and works with Windows 7, Vista, XP, and Linux. It can be combined with a second one to form a seamless desktop across 16 monitors. Apparently, this is perfect for "energy, transportation, process control, financial trading," and making your head explode. [Matrox]

Its price tag is a bit lower than its $2300 Extio F1400 brandmate, and it lets you hook up two 1920x1200 digital (DVI) or analog monitors to its quiet little fanless desktop unit, unlike the F1400 which will let you feed four DVI monitors but only at a resolution of 1600x1200.

But Extio lets you do much more than that, offering some intriguing possibilities:

With its 6 USB 2.0 ports and two 1394 FireWire ports, along with integrated audio jacks, you can plug in your speakers, camcorders and external DVD, Blu-ray or HD DVD drives and have them right there at your fingertips. Suddenly that distant, wheezing computer that sounds like a vacuum cleaner is a distant memory unless you need to take a hike to give it a cold boot.

But Extio is expensive. That's because it all works with a fat fiber optic pipe, sending its signals back and forth with bandwidth to spare, and for that it needs both a PCI card and a PCIe card in the host computer. Plus, there's 128MB of graphics memory in that desktop unit, too. Hooking up all this tech and making it work perfectly every time can't be cheap. However, the cost of this technology is destined to plummet, as it always does.

But take look at the technology in this system, and imagine it nestled in a home theater, its quiet little box connected to a 1080p projector and the other end to a remote server with terabytes of HD movies on board. That's what I'm talkin' about. The Extio F1220 will be shipping in Q2 of this year. – Charlie White

Product Page [Matrox]

Following up from yesterday's Dealzmodo, the best comment was from Elvisisdead, alerting us to a Vizio 37" LCD at Costco for $999. Rumor has it that you can get the 42" for $1299 - brick and mortar only. And hey, if you can find a hotter deal on TVs, PCs—whatever you can find for cheap—post the URL in comments. No comment account? Shoot an email to iwanttocomment@gizmodo.com and we'll hook you up. – Charlie White

Matrox Millenium G450 16MB AGP 4x Dual Head Video Card [Tiger Direct, via BargainJack]

MXO is capable of some counterintuitive feats as well, such as extracting 8 channels of SDI embedded audio with stereo audio monitoring from the secondary DVI port on a Mac. Another advantage is that it's compatible with most Macs including laptops, iMacs and G5 desktops. Final Cut Pro video editors on the Mac will love this thing.

The best part of MXO is, until now, Mac users couldn't get an accurate view of what would actually be seen on a television screen when watching their productions in full-screen view on a computer display. Now they can get that full 1080i effect, using this $995 box. I've seen this baby, and it's fo' real. – Charlie White

Product Page [Matrox]

First Look [Creative Mac]

This adapter will be useful in trading rooms where having lots of information in front of you is key, and probably also in facilities that do a lot of graphics rendering, since most of the computing is done on powerful servers.

There is a TC2 version that goes up to 3840x1200 resolution and a TC2 Lite that's 2560x1024 resolution. No word on pricing yet, but it's shipping now. – Jason Chen

Matrox ships four-panel display card [Reg Hardware]

The device comes with a power supply, some adapters, and a CD with drivers and documentation. Our test setup consisted of a Pentium 4 SFF PC, a Xerox LCD monitor, and two old Sony monitors from 1920. The LCD required the included DVI-to-VGA converter while the other two monitors plugged in just fine.

After a bit of confusion during the initial start-up, we were able to install the drivers and now had a widescreen Windows PC. A small LED on the front of the unit lights green, informing you that everything is just fine. Driver installation is key in any case, so until you pop in the CD and reboot, your triple-head PC is just a single-head.

The TripleHead2Go doesn't work with OS X, which made me very sad. We're also assuming Linux is right out. In terms of performance, we didn't notice any problems when comparing our ATI card driving one monitor or three. The maximum supported resolution, after installation, is 3840x1024 and the included PowerDesk utility allows Windows to support 3840 wide windows, which is quite a treat. If you're intending to create a new PC with this set-up, we recommend picking up three identical monitors with small bezels. Anything bigger than an inch detracts from the total majesty of the 3840x1024 experience.

TripleHead2Go costs $299 and is available online and in most retail stores. If you're looking to expand your Windows Vistas (har har), this is the dongle for you. – John Biggs

Product Page [Matrox]

Not only can it run an SLI graphics setup at a superwide 3840x1024 resolution over three displays, according to Matrox there are 135 games are compatible with the TripleHead2Go, including World of Warcraft, Half-Life 2: Lost Coast and Unreal Tournament 2004. Available now directly from Matrox or elsewhere for around $300. – Charlie White

Product Page [Matrox]

While this device can be used in a wide variety of situations, it can really shine when applied to gaming. If you happen to be running an SLI graphics setup, then the TripleHead2Go can project games over the three screens. This may be well worth it if you own a beefy system that can handle games at a 3840x1024 resolution. There is no official word on pricing yet, but expect to pay upwards of $250 to $300.

TripleHead2Go [Via jkOnTheRun]

Matrox Extio F1400 is world's first remote graphics unit [Matrox Press Release]

Matrox Box Splits One Monitor Into Two [Extremetech]

Pre-Order Matrox DualHead2Go [ShopMatrox]