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Old 01-12-2021, 05:25 PM   #35
fjtorres
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Yes. I'm disappointed how few screens can go Portrait. Even fewer laptops.

Seems laptops and monitor screens dominated by the idea of delivering 16:9 landscape made for TV video. I use a 48" screen for video.
Years ago I even occasionally propped CRTs with books to read longer PDF documents full page in a decent font size.
Thanks to VESA pretty much every monitor can be set up in portrait. You can remove the stand on many (most?) rotate tbe panel and reattach.
Or, if you want to switch back and forth, you can get something like this stand starting around US$20.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/slredirect...DAAO6TDKV4R7PK

Pretty much all PC video cards support rotation right from the desktop.

For laptops you need a convertible and an easel or a tablet PC. Not as convenient.

Oddly enough, there were a couple of portrait all-in-ones way back in the prehistory, most notably, the Xerox Alto in 1973 and its followers.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Alto


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith_(computer)

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