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Re: Travelling with 24” Monitors

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Post by tiborsaas »

marcinzm wrote: post #17
tiborsaas wrote: post #9

This sounds a bit bizarre to me. Took a few seconds to find a large pool of monitors designed for travelling. https://www.techradar.com/news/best-portable-monitor I also don't get the need for an external GPU. Maybe for machine learning it makes sense, but just to drive monitors it sounds excessive.

>Took a few seconds to find a large pool of monitors designed for travelling. Those are relatively small and ergonomically horrible (as are laptop screens in general). So wouldn't meet the authors needs to retaining current efficiency and comfort. >I also don't get the need for an external GPU I doubt his built in GPU can drive 3 large monitors and the laptop display at the same time. edit: Also, for future reference…

Meh, intelligent people do silly things sometimes, I consider this case like that.

There are larger portable monitors too.

https://www.alibaba.com/showroom/24-inch-portable-monitor.ht...

Re: Travelling with 24” Monitors

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Post by w0mbat »

Nice article. Logical next step is to drive all 3 screens from a single power supply (as these use LED backlighting, they do not require much power each). I would build the AC transformer into the middle screen and have it output DC to the ones on either side.

Re: Travelling with 24” Monitors

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Post by tiborsaas »

cerberusss wrote: post #21
tiborsaas wrote: post #9

This sounds a bit bizarre to me. Took a few seconds to find a large pool of monitors designed for travelling. https://www.techradar.com/news/best-portable-monitor I also don't get the need for an external GPU. Maybe for machine learning it makes sense, but just to drive monitors it sounds excessive.

Yes, but these aren't 24" and that's what the writer of the piece wanted. The biggest is 17", which isn't all that bad though. It's a shame that the resolution is abysmal: 1600x900 https://eu.aoc.com/en/monitors/e1759fwu

It takes a little more research to find 24 inch portable monitors even at 4k.

Re: Travelling with 24” Monitors

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Post by jotm »

Hell of a setup!

I settled on 4x 17" laptops, much easier to carry and you get extra storage and bonus processing power.

Wasn't my plan, really, but I can't sell old laptops (too cheap, no one wants them anyway, plus I always think maybe I'll use this one for smth).

So one old laptop became a second display. Then a second. But that's three and looks stupid and asymmetrical, so I added a 4th...

Traveled once with them, barely takes up half a bag. Think I'll stick with it.

Re: Travelling with 24” Monitors

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Post by 4cao »

Well, congratulations on the whole setup. It seems you planned everything down to the last detail and it worked out well.

However, if I were you, I would have asked myself: (1) do I really need 3 monitors, (2) if yes, can I just rent them wherever I'm headed, (3) if no, can I just substitute them with a larger UHD TV, which seem to be quite cheap these days (buy one and resell later).

In fact, if you are staying at a hotel or a serviced apartment, there would usually be a TV you could repurpose for this.

I also wanted to point out you can travel with more luggage as long as a single piece is under 32 kg, and stuff can be shipped internationally without including an invoice.

As long as a single item is below 20 kg, you could also use EMS, which works nearly as well, is cheaper, and, unlike parcel services, does not require you to appoint a customs agent on your behalf.

I'm not writing all this to critize what you did but just wanted to let you know alternate solutions should in fact be possible. As someone doing a lot of travelling, I've come to the conclusion that travelling light is the best thing one can do.

Re: Travelling with 24” Monitors

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Post by csomar »

seungjulee wrote: post #16

Why do you even need 3 monitors? That seems excessive.

If you are doing web dev, it's literally a must. One screen to type code, one screen for the browser, and one screen for the browser webdev tools.

Sometimes I wish I have a forth screen for the documentation.

Re: Travelling with 24” Monitors

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Post by polote »

w0mbat wrote: post #32

Nice article. Logical next step is to drive all 3 screens from a single power supply (as these use LED backlighting, they do not require much power each). I would build the AC transformer into the middle screen and have it output DC to the ones on either side.

Yes, exactly what I wanted to do initially, but the issue is that the power block also contains the video card of the screen and needs power too, so that wouldn't be so easy to do, but feasible

Re: Travelling with 24” Monitors

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Post by _jal »

eliasbagley wrote: post #29
nickjj wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's surprising at how little this matters. I came back from a tech event once with a build a robot kit, except I'm a very light packer and the box was huge so I had to take everything out and fit it into a backpack along with everything else I had. I had a compartment that had an assortment of circuit boards, screws, wires, plastic pieces, etc.. No one even batted an eye and the bag went straight through the carry o…

They aren't looking for electronics - they are looking for large masses that could be fuel for the explosives. Big blocks of clay, liquids, etc. A jumble of electronics alone with nothing that can actually explode is common and doesn't ring any alarm bells. I discovered this after talking to a TSA agent after flying a few times with my modular synthesizer, where I was surprised that it was never pulled for extra scre…

My mother makes soap and tends to give me a few bars when I visit. I have learned to mail it back to myself; taking a few 2"x3"x5"-ish blocks of a uniform-density material through the airport is a guaranteed close look.
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