[ale] Basic Laptop for presentations question

[Geoffrey]

James Sumners wrote:
> Warning: This message contributes nothing helpful to the conversation.
> 
> The problem detailed in this thread is one of the biggest reasons (top
> 3) I decided to buy an Apple laptop. I had been using Dell laptops
> issued to me through work/school. So I was well aware of the problems
> that can arise when using a Linux laptop to do presentations. I must
> say, I am extremely happy I made the decision I did.
> 
> A Unix based OS with a GUI that makes doing presentations and such
> easy? That would be OS X.

My Macbook Pro is dual boot Linux and OS X and the external video 'just 
works' in both cases.  As someone else noted, all I had to do was 
configure it via the nvidia application and all was well.

> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 5:14 PM, scott mcbrien <smcbrien at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I do a lot of presentations, I've worked on Toshiba, IBM, and Dell laptops.
>>  In my experience, the Fn+<key> commands work on some, but not others, and
>> generally you need to turn on the external VGA or DVI port in the BIOS.
>> I had an IBM T40 that worked great, Fn+8 worked without problems.  Now I've
>> got a T60 that the external VGA port will turn on if the projector or other
>> display is connected at boot, but will not turn on if the machine was booted
>> prior to connecting the outside source.  Plus as an added bonus, the Fn+8
>> doesn't work.  On the positive, this seems to be the behavior the operating
>> system who shall not be named, which leads me to believe it's a Lenovo BIOS
>> thing.
>> I've seen similar behavior from some of the Dell laptops I've worked with.
>>  The toshibas were old, but they seemed to work just fine.
>> -Scott
> 
> 


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Until later, Geoffrey

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