Recent content by FrankVardon

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    Driving a 2560x1440 monitor with an HDMI-equipped laptop

    I tried a few experiments at Micro Center. Bottom line: The laptops equipped with the Intel HD Graphics 4000 that I tried could not achieve 2560x1440 on a Dell UltraSharp U2713hm monitor, regardless of which connections we tried: HDMI to HDMI, or mini-DisplayPort to DisplayPort. The maximum...
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    Driving a 2560x1440 monitor with an HDMI-equipped laptop

    @noidea_77: Thanks. Are you saying in your final sentence that the HDMI-equipped Asus UX31a would/should be able to drive a monitor to 2560x1600?
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    Driving a 2560x1440 monitor with an HDMI-equipped laptop

    Thanks, noidea_77. I just had a chat with Asus: Me: Could you tell me which version of HDMI your UX31a-DH51 and N56VJ-DH71 laptops have? Asus rep: The system doesn’t tell us the version of HDMI it has. Me: Hmm. How could Asus themselves not know which version of HDMI their own laptops have? Any...
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    Driving a 2560x1440 monitor with an HDMI-equipped laptop

    Hi, guys, any pointers on this would be much appreciated. I am purchasing a Dell U2713HM monitor (2560x1440, DisplayPort, HDMI, DVI). I am considering one of two laptops: An Asus UX31a-DH51 (1920x1080, Intel HD Graphics 4000, micro-HDMI) and an Asus N56VJ-DH71 (NVIDIA GeForce GT 635M, HDMI)...