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Laptop docking station w. ext. monitor?
I'm getting serious again about improving my "hunchback" situation
with some sort of different seating/viewing configuration. Does anyone here use a laptop with an external monitor? I am wondering if I should match the resolution of the monitor to the resolution of the laptop display to be assured that it would work optimally. Thanks. |
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Laptop docking station w. ext. monitor?
On Dec 23, 2:51*pm, Davej wrote:
I'm getting serious again about improving my "hunchback" situation with some sort of different seating/viewing configuration. Does anyone here use a laptop with an external monitor? I am wondering if I should match the resolution of the monitor to the resolution of the laptop display to be assured that it would work optimally. Thanks. Lots of people at work do this. The most common solution by far is a dock off to the side, with the laptop screen turning off when docked. Attached to the dock are two monitors, an external keyboard, and an external mouse. The resolution of the monitors in no way matches the resolution of the laptop. Obviously, to make this work, you'll need a dock that support multiple monitors, along with a laptop that supports docking. -- // T.Hsu |
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Laptop docking station w. ext. monitor?
On Dec 23, 3:57*pm, wrote:
On Dec 23, 2:51*pm, Davej wrote: I'm getting serious again about improving my "hunchback" situation with some sort of different seating/viewing configuration. Does anyone here use a laptop with an external monitor? I am wondering if I should match the resolution of the monitor to the resolution of the laptop display to be assured that it would work optimally. Thanks. Lots of people at work do this. The most common solution by far is a dock off to the side, with the laptop screen turning off when docked. Attached to the dock are two monitors, an external keyboard, and an external mouse. The resolution of the monitors in no way matches the resolution of the laptop. Obviously, to make this work, you'll need a dock that support multiple monitors, along with a laptop that supports docking. -- // T.Hsu Well, I had thought that the video card in the laptop was probably pretty limited and currently the properties menu seems to say that the built in display is using the highest resolution supported. That may be misleading if the visible menu options are only those supported by the built-in display. I'm not really seeing the need for a different keyboard if I can just position the monitor on a swing-arm up about a foot higher and a few inches closer than the position of the laptop display. Thanks. |
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