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I'd go with the video card option. You can get one that supports multiple displays and is at least as fast as the on-board video for under $100 (GT710 or GT1030). To get dual DisplayPorts will probably cost $200 but will be much faster than the on-board video. One advantage is the video card will have its own display memory rather than using a chuck of main memory.
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I don't use dual displays, I never have.
I do, however, have a 40 inch Television with a VGA input for use as a computer screen.
It is a SEIKI, does 1920x1080 resolution. If you set the font size, etc. to 90% or so for my laptop, I have more screen real estate than I could use.
The only fly in the ointment is that my new HP laptop only has an HDMI output port. My old Dell laptop had a VGA and worked just fine, until the USB ports quit working, hence the new HP. To make a long story just a little longer, $25.00 and a new HP HDMI to VGA adapter, and I have my large display in business again.
If you have an old TV laying around with a VGA input you should consider that. Even if you don't, the big flat screens are so cheap these days, I would think you could spend lesson a setup like mine, than on a docking device.
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The adjective for metal is metallic, but not so for iron, which is ironic.
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Nah, this is fort of the day[^]
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Pretty sure déjà vu is the proper term.
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Isn't the feeling you've heard an iron joke before 'feja vu?'
If that joke doesn't work, I'm sorry. I am feeling a bit rusty.
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Meanwhile, in the ancient past of last Friday:
The Lounge[^]
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Knew as I was posting it there was a good chance I had read it here first 😂
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The irony.
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Isn't it "Ironiferrous"?
Yes I have a steely gaze!
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If baroque musicians don't like their presents, do they give them Bach?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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You can't return them once you Handel them.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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If you try, you have to go into Haydn.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Unfortunately that's not my forte, but as I say, if it ain't baroque don't fix it.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I can't Handel anymore Bach Bach jokes.
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Mike Hankey wrote: Bach Bach Who's there?
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OriginalGriff wrote: If baroque musicians don't like their presents, They are more fascinated by pasts, is that why?
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Don't toot your own horn. That was just OK.
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A tutor who tooted the flute
tried to tutor two tutors to toot.
Said the two to the tutor:
Is it harder to toot,
or to tout two tutors
to toot?
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No, they go into a fugue and toccata the walls.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I'd like to not that that's a rather Strauss-ful preposition and you coda toned it down. I'll Beethoven you don't know!
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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(Not that I'd ever used Teams, but you all know how that goes...)
My neighbour has been having problems; he can't get the "join now" button to enable when he follows a link.
So it took a while, because I took my Surface so we could set up a meeting and make sure it all worked, which meant my phone as well to provide a portable hotspot for me, and installed Teams desktop, set up a team, added him to it, sent him an invite ... and found the problem: he hadn't selected an audio source. Click on that, and it all "just works" and pretty damn well (well, apart from audio feedback)
Only I got thinking ... I'm on my Surface, which is WiFied to my phone, which is 4Ged to a radio mast, which talks to a base station, which talks to Vodaphone, which uses fibre to connect to the internet, which connects to Seattle, which talks to the internet, which uses fibre to go back under the ocean to talk to Sky (his ISP), to talk to a BT exchange for his broadband, which talks to his lappie via his WiFi so I can ask him to plug in some headphones because the feedback is hurting my ears ...
And it all worked. From one end of a dining table to the other via a different continent and a huge variety of physical and logical connections we get good quality moving pictures. All by clicking a link in an email!
Clarke was right: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" - but only for 90% of the population who have no idea how it does work ... and that doesn't include us, now does it?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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En français c'est mieux!
I'd rather be phishing!
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Et en joual, ce serait encore mieux!
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