[lug] Portable monitors

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 04:34:57PM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote:
>keyboard mode" directly from the laptop... shut down the laptop on board 
>computer (or have a soft-switch of some kind) and have ports to plug 
>cables into whatever you're attempting to work on.

It's something that's specific enough that most people probably wouldn't be
willing to pay the extra cost to have it built in.  My undestanding is
that, unlike a normal monitor, the laptop graphics chipsets have LCD
controllers tightly coupled with them, so you can't just have a simple
shunt to pass VGA signals one way or another...

If price were no consideration, you could get one of those KVM-over-IP
boxes and carry that with you.  More portable and less fragile than a
monitor, but also much more expensive.

We just have a 12" LCD display that is pretty portable, though the cables
for it are kind of a pain.

As far as the Toughbooks go, the only people I've seen with those are law
enforcement or military, not places where they usually need a portable
monitor/keyboard.  ;-)

Thanks,
Sean
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