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How do I get a DVI port on a notebook?
Tuesday, 20 January, 2009
My laptop doesn't have DVI port. How do I get one? Is there a PCMCIA Video card that has it?
Noel , ,
 A quick Google shows that apparently there are such beasts.
I assume that you want to feed your notebook into a high-definition monitor or TV - correct?
I'd suggest that you try it before you buy because the experience may not be as wonderful as you hope, especially on a TV set. You may find that you're happy with either the VGA or S-Video connection. It won;t be as high-definition but it won't cost anything either.
If you're after the media experience in a living room another option would be to get a hi-def media player that does have a DVI or HDMI output and can take material from the notebook or from the network at home or from a connected hard disk. This probably wouldn't cost any more than the DVI card and would be more versatile.
Paul Zucker
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ira goldPosted: 19/04/2010 re: How do I get a DVI port on a notebook? when you get one can it be done? JCPosted: 24/01/2009 re: How do I get a DVI port on a notebook? Luke, you're ranting about 'nothing'.
Why, and how do I know?
You can't get my 'initials' right, for starters.
I've been into computers for 10 years now, built 4 of my very own. (Every 2 years upgrading to a better one.....on a Pension, I might add!)
The one I'm using now is a AMD Dual-Core CPU/Motherboard set-up.....with 4 Gbs of(Dual-sided) DDR2 RAM, 2 x 250 Gbs Sata Hard-drives, a 256 Mb ATI Graphics-card rated at 256 Mbs but running at 512 Mbs courtesy of 'on-board Graphics RAM' (ths is also 256 Mbs)....but, if I chose to go to a 64-bit OS, the RAM for the Graphics does jump to 1 Gb!)
I put the effort in.....to creating the best computer I could afford ("as above").
On a pension, too.
Most people can't be bothered.
They have an Pent II (or III).....with less than 20 Gbs of hard-drive....a Graphics-card of no more than 64 Mbs........using less than 512 Mbs of RAM, trying to run XP Pro!
And, what are they trying to do?
They're trying to run what they have got.......like it (their computer) is the latest and greatest available!
JEEEEEEEEEEEZ!
Are your feelings hurt?
If you want a better computer, build it yourself....OR get it built!
Stop wasting your time with 'crap'. (Crap you've been told is useless, but, you see as an easy way of getting a computer or a component 'for nothing'...or, worse, selling it on to someone else who has indeed far less knowledge about computers than you do! Just so you can make some real 'easy money').
When I build a computer (for anybody), on their budget....I do so as if I am building it for myself!
Which is the best I can give anyone, meaning that they do not get it...until it is working perfectly, in every sense of those 'words'.
In the 10 years of writing in to this web-site, I have also done my level best.......to deliver the most appropriate 'response', according what people write in about.
And, on that note, IF the Pcuser Staff never deem my replies 'worthy enough'.....they never get posted, anyway!
Like I've said, I've also been writing in...for 10 years! (So, I must be doing something right, here.)
LukePosted: 23/01/2009 re: How do I get a DVI port on a notebook? Noel,
I found this in a quick search: http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=298909
Looks like it puts out 1600x1200 (Only problem being it is for an ExpressCard port.. though i'm sure there will be something similar for PCMCIA)
To the other poster - PC. Not everyone fits into what you think, ie my laptop/graphics card does not have a dvi port but it is far from being "is an old one (or, at least, the graphics-card is.)" JCPosted: 22/01/2009 re: How do I get a DVI port on a notebook? Noel, I'll take a different track to PZ's suggestion........"Have you even remotely considered the amount of 'strain' you'll be putting on to your lap-top (Make/Origin unknown!)?"
The mere fact that you say it does NOT have a DVI port is suggestive that your lap-top/notebook is an old one (or, at least, the graphics-card is.)
And, the 'on-board' type, naturally so...for lap-tops/notebooks.
Does your lap-top/notebook have RAM.....to 'assist' in the use/upgrade of your Graphics-card (video-card)?
The ones I have had to deal with, have ALL been 'seriously lacking'....in this Department.
Okay, you have thoughts ...of using a PCMCIA Video-card...in yours.
I did a rough 'google', myself.....and, like many times before, as I have stated, components for lap-tops/notebooks are far more expensive than those 'desk-top' units.
Are you willing to pay....for a component that may cost as much as your lap-top?
I don't think you are.
You're just another one of these 'individuals'......who see a lap-top/notebook as some sort of status symbol ( Look, I have a lap-top...I can go anywhere! with it!Do anything with it!)
Then proceed to do just, in making the 'poor' laptop/notebook work in ways far beyond it's 'capabilities'.......as 'proof'..of how good you are with computers.
Any/all components you have to 'connect' your lap-top.......you will have to carry around with you (IF you have any intentions of using it in a 'mobile situation'!)
Have you thought of that, Noel?
Or, are you fully expecting 'someone else'...to do all that carrying for you, instead?
As for the 'Life-span' of your computer.....I'll give a year, before something else 'goes drastically wrong' with it, why?
You clearly have intentions....of pushing it far beyond it's 'limited capabilities'.
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