How to hook up 3 monitors to macbook pro?

Hey people,
I have searched for hours trying to find the best solution for hooking up three external monitors to my macbook pro (mid 2010).
The only serious (not homemade) solution is the Matrox TripleHead2Go DP Edition, but this solution only gives me a max resolution of 4080x768 (3x 1360x768).
Unfortunately I dont believe that would be enough to satisfy me needs.
I dont think Im the first one struggling with this problem, any solution will be much appreciated!
tl;dr:
Need to hook 3 monitors up to my macbook pro (mid 2010), whats the best solution?

Thunderbolt-capable Macs, with discrete AMD Radeon graphics can support up to TWO connected Apple Thunderbolt Displays.
MacBook Pro (15-inch and 17-inch, Early 2011) and later
iMac (Mid 2011)2
Mac mini (Mid 2011), 2.5 GHz3
All others can only support one external directly, usually based on a Mini DisplayPort with an adapter.
You could use two of these, but reports are they are "laggy":
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/NewerTech/VIDU2DVIA/

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