external graphic card and display

Tyler J. Wagner tyler at tolaris.com
Tue Aug 10 09:54:03 UTC 2010


On Tuesday 10 Aug 2010 09:44:06 xPol wrote:
> I would like to connect my laptop to an external, larger display. The mmin
> reason to do that is to ease my laptop work, by feeding the graphic signal
> to an external device.
> Are there displays embedding own graphic card?

That's not how they work. An external display still must be fed from your 
video device.

What do you mean by "ease my laptop work"? No change of the type you propose 
will have a noticeable impact on workload or performance, except in the case 
of installing a more powerful video device.

Regards,
Tyler

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