Monitor Problem

Hi Dusty -

Ideally the center of the monitor should be about at eye level, but never higher. Lower is okay, but laptops’ screens usually sit right on the desk & are sometimes too low.

Yes, attaching an external monitor to the laptop is no problem. There’s a video connector on the side or back of the laptop that would allow you to connect and monitor. Simply turn off the laptop, connect the monitor, turn the monitor on, then turn on the laptop. If the monitor is working correctly, you should see the same thing on the large screen that you see on the laptop screen.

Attaching an external keyboard to the laptop is also a possibility, thought it sounds like we’d have to find the right match.

Do you want to try connecting the monitor yourself and let us know if it doesn’t work or if you have any difficulties?

Best,

hunter greene Brainspiral Technologies, Inc. ————————————————————————————- hunter@brainspiral.com http://brainspiral.com w: 413-458-5755 c: 413-281-4918

On Feb 25, 2010, at 2:16 PM, wrote:

> Hi Hunter — > > My wife has a continuing problem with arthritis in her neck and shoulders, and we think that looking DOWN at the laptop keyboard may be producing neck/shoulder pain. But she needs the laptop since her arthritis-damaged fingers can handle its keyboard better than the keyboards for desktop she used to use. > > I am wondering if we can somehow hook up the laptop to an old desktop monitor (which we will put at eye level), and let her read off that monitor without having to look down at the laptop screen. > > Would that work, and can you do it? If not, do you have any other idea about how she could work at the computer without having to look down. >