Hello,
Sometimes it is incovenient to lug a monitor to a windows machine that is having trouble (and the monitor is broken). I don't want to mess with a web of cables to disconnect and reconnect a monitor when working in data centers with tight space, or a monitor may not be available. I have always wondered if I could use my laptop monitor as a monitor for a windows machine. Something like connect a cable from the USB port on my laptop to the vga port on the desk top. My first guess is that what I propose is going to put a lot of electricity through the usb port and probably blow something up. That is the ease of solution that I am looking for. Is there such a hardware/software solution available? Or am I in a fantasy land and should just plug in my ipod nano as the display like everybody else does
Maybe there is a portable mini display available and I'm just the last one to find out.
Thanks
-Hallux
Sometimes it is incovenient to lug a monitor to a windows machine that is having trouble (and the monitor is broken). I don't want to mess with a web of cables to disconnect and reconnect a monitor when working in data centers with tight space, or a monitor may not be available. I have always wondered if I could use my laptop monitor as a monitor for a windows machine. Something like connect a cable from the USB port on my laptop to the vga port on the desk top. My first guess is that what I propose is going to put a lot of electricity through the usb port and probably blow something up. That is the ease of solution that I am looking for. Is there such a hardware/software solution available? Or am I in a fantasy land and should just plug in my ipod nano as the display like everybody else does
Maybe there is a portable mini display available and I'm just the last one to find out.
Thanks
-Hallux