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Is it possible to drive three external displays (3x 22" inch monitors, each at 1680 x 1050) on the Macbook-Pro under BootCamp / Windows.

A couple of guys have shown that it works under Mac OSX (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJhvyLB_Tbw).

Do you think it would work under Windows as well?

Thanks in advance for your help!

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The problem is that Windows does not run well wit Boot Camp. You'll have to run in 150DPI, which means your external screens will also run in 150DPI (this is a no go). You could also run in eg 1920x1200 on your retina... But that is very blurry (like going from none retina to retina, just the other way). This is also true even if you run with perfect pixel doubling 1440x900 (apple.stackexchange.com/questions/59283/…). I've just sold my retina because it simply does not work in Windows (external screens or not). Period! – Thomas Jespersen Aug 4 '12 at 8:50

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I just went as far as attaching two external displays (1920x1200 + 1280x1024 + the internal at native 2880x1800) and apart from the fan blowing slightly I didn't run into any problems. I don't think that three external displays at that moderate resolution of 1680x1050 pose a problem especially when you don't bump up the internal resolution to native. The guys at OWC attached two thunderbolt displays with considerably higher resolution and a FUllHD to the rMBP. If the OS X driver is able to handle it I am pretty sure the windows driver can do just as well.

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Thanks for the help!! – Alex Jul 29 '12 at 7:19

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