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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. > -- Henry Communication not signed with an original manual signature or an appropriately verified digital signature is not binding. Sat 6 Jan 23:16:00 GMT 2018
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