help with Notebook + Monitor
 

Hey guys,

I have an Fujitsu Siemens Amilo A7640W notebook and I was thinking about buying a bigger monitor for it.

So far I have no idea which one, but I would like to know if i can buy any monitor for it, because the resolution on my laptop is only 1024 x 768 and my graphic card is a crappy onboard notebook one

Can the monitor have better resolution then? Can I hook up the monitor and use BOTH the new one and then notebook one for playing Poker? I dont really know the technical issues, though there is only a little blue plug on the other side that I consider being the monitor plug in

Help gladly appreciated

Re: help with Notebook + Monitor
 

I'm sure your laptop can run both screens at once, but the question is how high resolution the card can put out. Note that the bound probably isn't 1024x768; that's probably the restriction of the SCREEN.

Google your laptop and find what res it can output, and buy a screen that's that size.

Re: help with Notebook + Monitor
 

Thx

If i google the laptop I only find data that says 1064x768 possible, but I am sure that means the screen

The Gcard is a SIS M760

If i google that, I find this

HyperTransport™ Host Interface
- Supports AMD Turion™ 64 / Mobile Athlon™ 64 / Mobile Sempron™
- HyperTransport™ compliant bus driver with auto compensation capability
- HyperTransport™ Technology up to 1600MT/s bandwidth

AGP 8X Graphics Interface
- Universal AGP v3.5 Compliant
- Supports AGP 8X/4X Interface w/ Fast Write Transaction

Integrated Mirage™ 2 Graphics Engine
- Built-in a High Performance 256-bit 3D Engine
- DirectX 8.1 H/W Compliant, DirectX 9.0 S/W Compliant
- Supports Digital Video Interface for TV or LCD Display

Flexible Design for Display Memory
- Supports shared frame buffer, local frame buffer or both for display memory architecture

High throughout MuTIOL® Connect interfaced to SiS963L MuTIOL® Media I/O
- Proprietary Interconnect between SiSM760 and SiS963L
- Bi-Directional 16-bit Data Bus at 533MHz Operating Frequency

(http://www.sis.com/products/sism760.htm)


doesnt seem much help to me ;(

Re: help with Notebook + Monitor
 

Try finding the maximum resolution supported at the video card maker's website. I am in a similar situation and found out from Intel's website.

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[img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] Not sure about widescreen

Re: help with Notebook + Monitor
 

Ah i found it in the users manual of the notebook

max resolution is

1600 x 1200

But what about widescreen? What do I need to know about that?

Re: help with Notebook + Monitor
 

So if I buy a laptop and want to use my dell2007fp TFT with it, do i have to make sure my laptop supports 1600x1200 so i can use it for poker?

Re: help with Notebook + Monitor
 

yes. But if you buy a new laptop, you'll have a hard time finding one that doesn't support 1600x1200.

Re: help with Notebook + Monitor
 

If your notebook doesn't support the 1600 X 1200 res or any res higher than that, is there any way around this problem? In other words, is there some way to use higher resolution on the external monitor without needing a better notebook? (sorry if the question sounds dumb, I'm clueless when it comes to this stuff)

Re: help with Notebook + Monitor
 

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yes. But if you buy a new laptop, you'll have a hard time finding one that doesn't support 1600x1200.

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http://vaio.sony.co.uk/view/ShowProduct....ory=VN+N+Series

so this wont work ?

Re: help with Notebook + Monitor
 

does anyone know If I can run a widescreen on that notebook? what do you generally need for runnings widescreens?