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Connecting monitor to laptop

  • 19-06-2012 09:24PM
    #1
    yellowlabrador
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    I'm concidering buying a laptop as a stop gap before upgrading my desktop. The problem is that my computer gets used by a few silver surfers, one of them with Parkinsons. I was hoping to set up the laptop connected to a standard keyboard and mouse and use my existing monitor, It's a flat screen monitor of about 6 years old. Will the connectors work on a new laptop? The connector on the laptop seems small compared to the one on my desktop. Do I need an adaptor? or would I connect the 2 via the desktop? Ie networking?


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  • #2
    horgan_p
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 2,612 Mod ✭✭✭✭horgan_p


    Being realistic you have a vga input on the monitor. Any laptop with a VGA port will do you.


  • #3
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,722 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    OP, the flatscreen probably doesn't have a HDMI input if it's that old so the laptop you buy will need to have a VGA output port, it's the one with three rows of pinholes...

    300px-SVGA_port.jpg

    Check the flatscreen any, this is what a HDMI port look like....

    hdmi-port.jpg


  • #4
    yellowlabrador
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,201 ✭✭✭yellowlabrador


    I haven't bought the laptop yet, from what I remember from last week, it had both a VGA and a HDMI, so I suppose I should be ok. It's been 7 years since I connected up the monitor, and I haven't had to touch it since, so all I can say is, well done Dell. I'm basically waiting for windows 8, chrome etc to sort themselves out before getting a good desktop, I feel there's lots of change on the way and I want to future proof my purchase, that's why I'm going for a laptop. I should be ok, it's just that the specs have gone up so much in the past few years and it could raise problems marrying new and old.


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