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Subject: Re: A New Machine Progresses
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2024 15:03:19 -0500
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On 12/27/24 7:50 AM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
> Farley Flud wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
> 
>> On Thu, 26 Dec 2024 16:21:10 -0500, -hh wrote:
>>
>>> e.g. work vs hobby.
>>
>> Is there a difference?
>>
>>> I recently deployed a new laptop.
>>
>> Computing with a laptop can be likened to experiencing the
>> world by looking through a soda straw.
> 
> Depends how many monitors you hook to it.

Precisely.

> My old ASUS loptap [sic] had two extras for awhile... one on the HDMI port
> and one out of the mini DP port with a VGA adapter.


Similarly, this laptop can support its built-in display, plus either:
1 external @ 8K/60Hz, or
1 external @ 4K/240Hz, or
2 externals of 6K/60Hz or at 4K/144Hz (including one of each).

That's already as many discrete displays as what Feeb's claiming he's 
going to hopefully eventually have, although if I had needed more, I 
could have opted for a higher end model, which ~doubles the amount:

Built-in display, plus either:
4 externals of 3 @ 6K/60Hz + 1 @ 4K/144Hz, or
3 externals of 2 @ 6K/60Hz + 1 @ 4K/240Hz, or
3 externals of 2 @ 6K/60Hz + 1 @ 8K/60Hz.


> The mini PC has two HDMI ports; it's nice to not have to devote one 
> of the monitors to a Corporate laptop.

Depends on the use case/workflow needs, of course: if one typically 
needs just two displays in a desktop setting, then having an allocation 
"lost" to a closed laptop screen isn't necessarily a big deal when 
built-in +2 externals are supported.

And even in the earlier days when it was +1 external, there were 
sometimes workarounds.  I can recall a Thinkpad where its workaround was 
that the built-in could be mirrored which didn't count as an "extra", so 
the solution was for the the laptop to be left open but off to the side; 
the desktop was two externals, one of which was a mirror of the 
set-aside laptop's built-in that was running but not being watched (if 
this description makes sense).


-hh