Can two external displays be driven from one Thunderbolt port?

Question

I have the new MacBook Air which only has a Thunderbolt output (no HDMI or DVI) and I have 2 external monitors. How can I get this all hooked up (at the lowest cost, if possible)?

EDIT: After using the DualHead2Go ME, I'm half-satisfied; it does split my single external port into 2 DVIs, but the externals act as 1 with double the width, so the resolution is very off and weird to look at. Looking back I probably should have bought the Pro to support both of my externals, but with my current Air this is the best I can do for 2 externals.

Answer 1

While Apple's display adapters will let you connect one of these external monitors, there's also the Matrox DualHead2Go Digital ME which will connect two external DVI displays (I've never seen or used one, ymmv).

Answer 2

The current-generation MacBook Air's integrated graphics only supports one external display.

Further, there are no products that I know of that are shipping (as of when I answered this) that can "split" a Thunderbolt signal to connect two non-Thunderbolt displays. The only way I know of to connect multiple displays to a Thunderbolt Mac via Thunderbolt is to use Apple's Thunderbolt Display.

You could use one of the various DisplayLink products to connect one of your displays via USB and use a plain mini DisplayPort adapter for the other display (this would connect to your Thunderbolt port).

Answer 3

Zotac provides an adapter to split a regular or mini DisplayPort into two HDMI ports. It's the ZT-DP2HD (DisplayPort) or ZT-MDP2HD (mini DisplayPort). Anandtech has a brief blurb about it here. For $50, I think it's worth checking out.