Due to plumbing work at my house I stayed at a hotel last night and tried using the hotel TV as a monitor.
Worked like a charm!
I just plugged my HDMI cable into the back of their TV, then told Win 10 to extend the desktop and VOILA! my little laptop screen wasn't do little anymore.
Obviously you can't get more than HDMI resolution but the size is much better than the laptop for my old eyes. The second obvious reason for doing this is we can then stream anything to the big TV. :)
I've used Chromecast in the past, but that only schoes the screen, doesn't extend it. Plus, I'm about to travel cross country and needed to test out all my options in advance and that made this little laptop viable for serious work.
Pretty amazing what digital road warriors can do these days compared to what seems to be just a few years ago when we were using modes, carrying phone cables and connecting to AOL for internet just because AOL had access numbers everywhere in the country with no extra access fees.
Remember access fees? where you had to pay extra by the minute if you crossed some imaginary zone?
Now you can damn near call anywhere for 'free' aka a plat monthly fee, no zones, and using Skype anywhere in the world is free.
Amazing how things changed so quickly and it was all fueled by the web.
