Which was the case here.

Post #434,441 by Andrew Grygus 6/12/20 1:37:54 AM 6/12/20 1:37:54 AM Reply	Which was the case here. HPs tend to be highly crippled, but this one at least had a PCIe16 slot. It was also low profile, but, fortunately, the video card I'd selected came with optional low profile brackets. Fortunately, I had the foresight to take a HDMI to VGA adapter, because both their monitors had only VGA cables. I knew there would likely be limitations and prepared for them. The family that owns this company is very wealthy, so, of course, they bought their office/finance manager refurbed equipment at the lowest price. That's just the way wealthy people are.
Post #434,443 by CRConrad 6/12/20 5:10:04 AM 6/12/20 5:10:04 AM Reply	Utterly fucking weird. I don't get it. Are you saying HP goes to extra lengths to disable even the basic functionality Intel includes on its cheapo processors? Funny, that would mean an extra cost for a negative "benefit". Or that these people buy not only refurb machines (yeah, cheapskate move), but refurb boxes that are nearly a decade old? Funny, you'd think the antique collector's value would make those more expensive rather than less. Utterly fucking weird. -- Christian R. Conrad The Man Who (used to think he) Knows Fucking Everything Mail: Same username as at the top left of this post, at iki.fi
Post #434,452 by drook 6/12/20 12:20:04 PM 6/12/20 12:20:04 PM Reply	Hey, I'm using one of those low-profile HP desktops Difference is, I've had it for at least 10 years, and I got it as a work cast-off. I'm writing this on it right now as a matter of fact. -- Drew
Post #434,470 by scoenye 6/12/20 5:51:03 PM 6/12/20 5:51:03 PM Reply	It wouldn't have mattered much Recent HP boxes come with various permutations of DisplayPort and HDMI ports. VGA and DVI are getting rare as hen's teeth. Before I left my previous employer, I had the entire attic full of perfectly functional VGA monitors because we couldn't connect them to the round of Win 10 PCs they finally bought. (I picked the PCs. There just weren't any worth buying that came with 2 VGA ports.)
Post #434,482 by pwhysall 6/13/20 2:31:52 AM 6/13/20 2:31:52 AM Reply	Preach it Back before the lockdown and my WFH status, I was on the scrounge for a nicer monitor at work, and found a beautiful HP panel, 1920x1200 or thereabouts. "Come with me, my pretty", I said. Got it to my desk - VGA only. Laptop has HDMI and USB3/TB ports only. Motherfucker. I mean sure, I could have farted about purchasing adapters and whatnot, but at the end of the day, VGA is a dead, analogue standard which means pressing the auto-adjust button on the monitor every time the power goes out, or it randomly decides to forget its settings, and even then it's not quite right, and you have to adjust the phase or the sharpness or the FUCK THIS GIVE ME A DIGITAL CONNECTION IT'S TWENTY FUCKING TWENTY.
Post #434,488 by drook 6/13/20 9:28:40 AM 6/13/20 9:28:40 AM Reply	Note on USB3/TB and Macs At work we've got dual monitors mounted to each desk. I ordered docks for my group, mostly because I was tired of having to carry my dock around each morning. (Hot desking ... don't get me started.) The windows lappers work fine. Macs will either use one in extended mode, or both if you duplicate the main screen to both. It drives both just fine if you put the second in the HDMI. So no dock love for Mac users. -- Drew

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