Power Efficient Computer Monitor Upgrade?
Hopefully this separate thread will eliminate hijacking another. Many RV'ers including myself use laptops instead of desktop units. But the 17" laptops seem to gobble laptop battery power at an ast...
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pnichols wrote:
... and don't forget you gotta have some way of getting sound to it from your laptop ...
Sound is where TV beats monitor. You can get a VGA cable with 3.5mm audio
and have both picture and sound on your TV. New TV might not have 3.5mm input, only red-white RCA audio in (and HDMI that is useless to you). 3.5mm a.k.a. "headphone jack" is a 2-channel stereo. So you will need an adapter 3.5mm Female to RCA red-white Male, it's cheap: if you find it in Mexico :)
Or get a monitor and small external speakers.
