If you have a laptop and an external display, is it possible to connect the laptop to the display, and then close the lid on the laptop and continue using it?
If you have a laptop and an external display, is it possible to connect the laptop to the display, and then close the lid on the laptop and continue using it?
BTW: Operating a notebook with the lid closed and connected to an external monitor is often referred to as clamshell mode. You'll find tons of useful posts if you search the forums for "clamshell."
As stated above, clamshell mode is officially only supported on the PowerBooks. However, there is a hack for the iBook that was originally designed to enable screen spanning (using the internal LCD and an external monitor at the same time to increase your desktop space) but that also supports clamshell mode on iBooks. If you do a search, however, you will read that the hacked clamshell mode on iBooks only lets you use half the video memory and is unreliable in several other respects.
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Originally posted by Luca
Yes. However, this is generally only possible with PowerBooks, not iBooks.
Ta.
Originally posted by Messiah
If you have a laptop and an external display, is it possible to connect the laptop to the display, and then close the lid on the laptop and continue using it?
BTW: Operating a notebook with the lid closed and connected to an external monitor is often referred to as clamshell mode. You'll find tons of useful posts if you search the forums for "clamshell."
As stated above, clamshell mode is officially only supported on the PowerBooks. However, there is a hack for the iBook that was originally designed to enable screen spanning (using the internal LCD and an external monitor at the same time to increase your desktop space) but that also supports clamshell mode on iBooks. If you do a search, however, you will read that the hacked clamshell mode on iBooks only lets you use half the video memory and is unreliable in several other respects.
Escher