Mobile Pixels Trio 3 Pro: MacBook's dual QHD screen wingspan

Add two 14-inch screens to your MacBook.

- SIMON JARY

Connecting an external display to your MacBook to extend your desk-based screen space is a common practice, but making your laptop into a desktop workstation isn’t pushing the boundaries of laptop screen expansion.

Even with many of today’s best portable monitors (fave.co/3JsszG5), it’s not easy to take this setup on the road with you or pack it neatly away in a drawer.

The Mobile Pixels Trio 3 Pro is a foldable package weighing 4.13lbs (1.9kg) that physically attaches to your MacBook to add a 14-inch 1400p QHD screen to each side of the laptop’s own screen. It makes your MacBook look like it has wings.

DESIGN

Previously, we’ve tested some screen extenders that hang off just one side of the laptop and look rather strange and lopsided, like a motorbike with a dangling sidecar. A while ago we tested the Limink Al Alloy Portable Triple Monitor (LK14), fave.co/3QOZuV3, that looks and acts a lot like the Mobile Pixels Trio 3 Pro.

Both the Trio 3 Pro and LK14 are a more symmetrical screen setup when in standard Landscape Mode: either side of the MacBook’s own screen. When set up, the screen wings certainly create an impressive look sitting next to a standard one-screen MacBook. At the end of the day or when it’s time to move to a new space, you disconnect, and the two side screens fold onto the central area.

A cardboard template is included in the box, so the magnets are attached in the right spot.

When folded up, the Trio 3 Pro measures 13.4×8.8×0.9 inches (34×22.4×2.3cm). In all its unfurled glory, it spans 40.3 inches (just over 1m), but it can be pulled closer together if your available desk space doesn’t stretch that far.