To replace the broken laptop, my church purchased an Asus K55VD laptop as this seemed good value for money and included a dedicated graphics card (NVIDIA GeForce 610M). The computer came with windows 8 (64bit) but we updated to 8.1 before installing any other software.
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The laptop res is 1366x768, the projection res is 1024x768. Using standard VGA output, all is working well. OpenLP 2.03 + VLC 2.0.8 + Office 2013. Powerpoints work fine from OpenLP and videos run smoothly.
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When we run powerpoints from Openlp, OpenLP hands over to powerpoint and powerpoint then runs in "Presenter View" which is great. To get back to OpenLP we just have to switch the computer's focus back to OpenLP, e.g. by clicking on OpenLP in the taskbar.
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The only two little bugs I have noticed are these:
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(1) If you’re in the habit of blanking the projector in OpenLP (by pressing “.”), do unblank it before going into a powerpoint presentation because it’s difficult to unblank it from within powerpoint. If you forget, use the task bar to get back to OpenLP, then unblank the projector within OpenLP (by pressing “.”), then go back into the powerpoint presentation.
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(2) If you are in the habit of removing text in OpenLP (by pressing “T”), do pop the text back on before going into a powerpoint presentation because it’s difficult to pop it back within powerpoint. If you forget, use the task bar to get back to OpenLP, then pop the text back within OpenLP (by pressing “T”), then go back into the powerpoint presentation.
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