This is when you would want to turn off your. If you’re watching a movie, video conferencing, or streaming your gaming session in your living room, there’s no point in having two screens. However, in most cases, you would only want the external screen to display the output. Deskspace is limited, and I had hoped to close the laptop lid & set my keyboard on top of it while I work. When you use an external monitor with an HDMI cable, it becomes an extension of your laptop’s screen. I thought I changed the settings correctly based on a video or 2 I saw online about converting a laptop to a desktop, but it doesn't seem to work. I want to be able to turn off or put the laptop to sleep "on-demand", but otherwise be able to close the laptop cover and keep it "on" (and not going to sleep or shutting-down) while I am working on it as a "desktop". The only problem I have yet to resolve is how to be able to turn on the laptop & then keep it from going to sleep when I shut the laptop (having the laptop's screen open & on while using the external monitor's screen instead bothers my eyes.)
My next step will be to hook-up the printer, hopefully. For security, I have also hooked-up an Ethernet cord directly from my router to the laptop, rather than use Wi-Fi. So far, I have been successful in attaching the monitor and external mouse/keyboard to the laptop using HDMI & USB ports. But I have eye issues which requires I use a large-screen monitor, so I am trying to set the laptop up as a desktop. My old desktop is painfully slow, so I am switching over to use my son's Sony VAIO laptop.
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