- Using laptop with screen removed?
- Posted by BoyntonStu on November 6th, 2007
If you can remove the screen from a laptop and use an external
monitor, wouldn't that become a really compact desktop?
A really intelligent keyboard.
Will a dell Inspiron 8600 operate with the screen removed?
- Posted by Daniel O'Shea on November 6th, 2007
http://www.cybernetman.com/default.cfm?DocId=602
- Posted by BoyntonStu on November 6th, 2007
On Nov 6, 12:06 am, Daniel O'Shea <u...@example.net> wrote:
Yes BUT.
I have a working laptop with a dead screen.
It is fine now with an external monitor.
I hate looking at the dead screen.
It would be 'neater' using it like one of http://www.cybernetman.com/default.cfm?DocId=602
Can it be done?
- Posted by Alynn Baker on November 6th, 2007
If you lay the lid (screen) flat and place a small stand or shelf on legs
above it, you could put the monitor on that shelf. You won't really see the
screen. I did that years ago when laptop screens were far inferior to my
monitor.
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- Posted by BoyntonStu on November 7th, 2007
On Nov 6, 4:35 pm, "Alynn Baker" <mathbookl...@yahoo.com> wrote:
A great idea!
I can also be used as a shelf for pencils, etc.
Another idea is remove the glass LCD and all other screen electrical
components.
Save electricity, heat, and lose weight.
Place 'leg's beneath the horizontal screen to make it a shelf.
- Posted by Phil_12345@hotmail.com on November 8th, 2007
This remind me of the Commodore 64/128, Amiga 500 and Atari ST but
with modern hardware :-) - the good old days.
Yes, you can remove the screen on almost any laptop. Download the
service manual of your laptop model and follow the instructions to
remove the screen. Normally the laptop screen attached to the base
by couple of latches with few screws; you also need to remove the
video cable (normally ribbon type) from inside the base to the screen.
- Posted by cmdrdata on November 8th, 2007
On Nov 5, 10:53 pm, BoyntonStu <s...@aaronj.com> wrote:
Here's a suggestion: most laptop have a small switch that gets
activated when the screen is in a closed position, thus telling
the PC to shutdown/hibernate/sleep. If you carefully drill a small
hole
above this switch, the swicth will not be activated when display
is in the close position, thus the PC keeps on running. Then
attach an external keyboard as well as USB mouse and you
now essentially have a desktop PC.
