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Re: [LUG] Monitors

 

On Sat, Jan 06, 2018 at 08:27:31PM +0000, mr meowski wrote:
 
> You kind of forgot the single most important thing, which is the exact
> make/model of laptop. Although it's clear your laptop has a 3rd gen
> Ivybridge CPU with integrated Intel HD Graphics 4000 the output of:

Samsung NP300E5C
> 
> cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'model name' | uniq
> 

Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3210M CPU @ 2.50GHz


> Would be more useful to determine the exact specs of your system.
> 
> In short, you *should* be able to run two external monitors *as well as*
> the normal laptop screen simultaneously, albeit with certain
> restrictions in supported resolutions and refresh rates. Do yourself a
> favour and forget that VGA port even exists though - you don't want that
> for anything when you have a perfectly good HDMI port available.

Oh JOY!
> 
> If you can stretch to a decent 4K monitor then definitely go for it,
> pending the research on exactly what your HD4000 can handle. IPS is
> infinitely preferable to crappy TN panels unless you're literally made
> out of money, in which case you want OLED. The main potential problem is
> if it can handle 4k @ at least 60Hz - even for the passive 2D work like
> you mention is your explicit use case, 30Hz will quickly ruin your eyes
> during page scrolling.
> 

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