[ale] Basic Laptop for presentations question

[James Sumners]

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The problem detailed in this thread is one of the biggest reasons (top
3) I decided to buy an Apple laptop. I had been using Dell laptops
issued to me through work/school. So I was well aware of the problems
that can arise when using a Linux laptop to do presentations. I must
say, I am extremely happy I made the decision I did.

A Unix based OS with a GUI that makes doing presentations and such
easy? That would be OS X.

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 5:14 PM, scott mcbrien <smcbrien at gmail.com> wrote:
> I do a lot of presentations, I've worked on Toshiba, IBM, and Dell laptops.
>  In my experience, the Fn+<key> commands work on some, but not others, and
> generally you need to turn on the external VGA or DVI port in the BIOS.
> I had an IBM T40 that worked great, Fn+8 worked without problems.  Now I've
> got a T60 that the external VGA port will turn on if the projector or other
> display is connected at boot, but will not turn on if the machine was booted
> prior to connecting the outside source.  Plus as an added bonus, the Fn+8
> doesn't work.  On the positive, this seems to be the behavior the operating
> system who shall not be named, which leads me to believe it's a Lenovo BIOS
> thing.
> I've seen similar behavior from some of the Dell laptops I've worked with.
>  The toshibas were old, but they seemed to work just fine.
> -Scott


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