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    Screen resolutoin for external display

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by snowbrdkid, Apr 23, 2009.

  1. snowbrdkid

    snowbrdkid Notebook Consultant

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    I've been looking notebooks lately, I will be buying one that is portable for school, but will be using dock per-say when I get home. I've been looking at the lattitude e4300, which has a resolution of 12k X 8k. When its connected to a monitor, will it just be the same picture, but bigger?
    I'm trying to figure out if it will be possible to actually do more work on a 19" widescreen versus the notebook screen...
     
    snowbrdkid, Apr 23, 2009
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  2. adrianu

    adrianu Notebook Geek

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    Pretty much all the new kind of VGA's that support external or second monitor have software, that can handle situations like this.

    According to dell.com, you E4300 have the same VGA as mine. In my Intel software I can rotatate, set resolution, refresh rate, color quality seperately.

    You can choose between 3 operating modes, Single, Display Clone, and Extended Desktop.

    Right now I'm using extended desktop, with a 19" Samsung monitor.

    Using 1280*800 and 1280*1024 resolutions, so basically I have a 2560 wide, and halfly 800, other half 1024px high workspace.

    In Ubuntu 9.04 (and probably in earlier releases as well) you can even setup, to what direction do you want to extend it. For example have the 19" beneath your notebook's workspace.
     
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    snowbrdkid Notebook Consultant

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    O cool thanks for the info!
     
    snowbrdkid, Apr 23, 2009
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    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    Like adrianu said, your computer can run two screen screens with different resolutions, at the same time.

    You can do that in Windows as well..
     
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    adrianu Notebook Geek

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    You are right, I just checked, and at Display Properties / Settings I can just grab then drop either screen to the desired location. Thanks for the tip. :)
     
    adrianu, Apr 23, 2009
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