I suppose I could always just fold the top over completely flat, then put
the external monitor on top of of the old one -- with some kind of platform,
of course.


"~misfit~" <misfit61nz******.com.au> wrote in message
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> Somewhere on teh intarwebs Ray wrote:
>> I have an eight-year-old HP ZE5300 laptop which is still in pretty
>> good shape except for the screen.
>>
>> My question: Can I simply remove the entire top, plug the laptop into
>> an LCD monitor, and essentially use the laptop as a desktop?
>
> As long as ther is no switch gear in the lid then the answer is; Probably.
> --
> Shaun.
>
> "Build a man a fire, and he`ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and
> he`ll be warm for the rest of his life." Terry Pratchett, Jingo.
>