It wouldn't have mattered much

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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

Things you forget about desktop computers - (drook) - (33) - June 9, 2020, 10:33:16 PM EDT

Are you sure? - (a6l6e6x) - (4) - June 9, 2020, 10:56:34 PM EDT

The part that goes "beep"? - (scoenye) - (3) - June 10, 2020, 07:51:09 AM EDT

I had one of those ... yes, nearly useless -NT - (drook) - June 10, 2020, 10:02:43 AM EDT

Microsoft had a PC Speaker driver at one point. - (mmoffitt) - (1) - June 10, 2020, 12:05:31 PM EDT

Yes, it was a 16-bit Windows thing. - (static) - June 11, 2020, 11:46:06 PM EDT

Desktop computers? Is there some other kind? - (Andrew Grygus) - (27) - June 9, 2020, 11:02:17 PM EDT

Servers, workstations, mainframes, embedded ... Yeah, quite a few other kinds. -NT - (drook) - (4) - June 10, 2020, 12:52:16 AM EDT

Re: Servers, workstations, mainframes, embedded ... Yeah, quite a few other kinds. - (Andrew Grygus) - (3) - June 10, 2020, 01:47:27 AM EDT

Most browsing and media consumption is on handheld devices these days, afaik - (pwhysall) - (2) - June 10, 2020, 02:36:57 AM EDT

Google says . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (1) - June 10, 2020, 11:27:31 PM EDT

Try BrowserStack for testing. - (malraux) - June 11, 2020, 12:48:41 PM EDT

With desktop peripherals, laptops/notebooks ARE desktops. - (CRConrad) - (21) - June 11, 2020, 05:56:18 AM EDT

As long as there's a dock so I only need to fiddle with one plug -NT - (drook) - (1) - June 10, 2020, 06:18:05 PM EDT

Yeah, that would be even nicer. - (CRConrad) - June 10, 2020, 07:10:01 PM EDT

Well, my (remaining) clients mostly perfer . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (18) - June 10, 2020, 11:33:36 PM EDT

"install a dual monitor video card"... When was this, in 1987? - (CRConrad) - (17) - June 11, 2020, 05:59:45 AM EDT

A lot of desktops have embedded video. - (static) - (16) - June 11, 2020, 11:49:31 PM EDT

Which was the case here. - (Andrew Grygus) - (5) - June 12, 2020, 01:37:54 AM EDT

Utterly fucking weird. - (CRConrad) - (4) - June 12, 2020, 05:10:04 AM EDT

Hey, I'm using one of those low-profile HP desktops - (drook) - June 12, 2020, 12:20:04 PM EDT

It wouldn't have mattered much - (scoenye) - (2) - June 12, 2020, 05:51:03 PM EDT

Preach it - (pwhysall) - (1) - June 13, 2020, 02:31:52 AM EDT

Note on USB3/TB and Macs - (drook) - June 13, 2020, 09:28:40 AM EDT

What's "embedded" video, if not what laptops have had since... Idunno, the Bronze Age? - (CRConrad) - (9) - June 12, 2020, 05:04:16 AM EDT

Looking at the back of mine ... - (drook) - (7) - June 12, 2020, 12:22:26 PM EDT

OK, no USB Type C, of course... But no DisplayPort (2007) or HDMI (2003)? Or even DVI (1999)?!? -NT - (CRConrad) - (6) - June 12, 2020, 05:19:07 PM EDT

Notebooks here are starting to come with HDMI . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (4) - June 12, 2020, 07:08:16 PM EDT

My work laptop has only one HDMI port - (pwhysall) - (3) - June 13, 2020, 02:27:24 AM EDT

I got J a new Mac Mini and a 4K LG display recently. - (Another Scott) - (2) - June 15, 2020, 12:25:10 AM EDT

USB-C "docks" and adapters... *sigh* - (static) - (1) - June 15, 2020, 04:17:39 AM EDT

Insert standard XKCD reference here -NT - (drook) - June 15, 2020, 09:01:28 AM EDT

Nope, nope, and nope -NT - (drook) - June 13, 2020, 12:29:03 AM EDT

Not just the processor. - (static) - June 14, 2020, 06:14:39 AM EDT

Not CRRRRRRAP!
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