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Screen tearing is when multiple bits from multiple frames in a video all display at once on the screen. Instead of seeing a solid scene, you get these smaller parts of multiple frames all jumbled into one. This may be minimal where it just looks like two or three images …

Displays are plug & play. A display is one of the most basic components of a computer so it needs to work right out of the box or a user won’t be able to interact with their system. An external display generally cannot show users the BIOS of a laptop …

MacBooks can work with external displays but unless you’re using an Apple display you are highly unlikely to get the same colors on it as you do on your internal screen. That said, Apple isn’t the only company that makes a good monitor. There are plenty of great external monitors …

Apple likes proprietary ports and as of late, it seems to be trying to give users as few ports as possible on MacBooks. If you own a newer model, you might have to use it with a USB hub. MacBooks can connect with external monitors. In fact, macOS has a …

Scaling is a feature on Windows 10 where everything is, in layman terms, magnified by a certain percentage. This feature makes the various UI elements on your screen easier to see when you have a high-resolution display. Windows 10 will enable scaling for a screen by default when you install …

Macs, whether they’re Macbooks or iMacs, or a Mac Mini are used with external monitors. The features on macOS tend to work almost flawlessly if you’re using Apple manufactured hardware but anything that hasn’t been manufactured by Apple, or that doesn’t carry its stamp of approval may, or may not …

Windows 10 allows you to set when your display will sleep if you’ve been inactive for a certain amount of time. The time interval can be set to whatever suits you, and changing it is simple. All you need to do is open the Power Options in Control Panel and …

Larger monitors are great for the screen real estate they provide but in order to use them, especially one that’s an HD display you have to scale it up or everything is going to be too small. Windows 10 has a built-in scaling feature that works, and it mostly works …

External displays have their own set of keys for controlling brightness and contrast. The brightness keys on the keyboard cannot change the brightness of an external display regardless if you’re on a Mac or a Windows 10 PC. That said, you can use an app and control brightness for external …

A while back, Intel released special drivers for their newer CPU models. These modern drivers came with their own problems; they wouldn’t install on systems with supported CPUs. Users were able to force install the driver but Intel discouraged it to the point they removed the file that was used …