Tip: Toshiba M200 - Upside Down Presentations

I do presentations and need to connect to a projector.

When you rotate the screen to switch from laptop mode to slate mode, the image that is sent to the vga port on the back of the machine inverts. The image on the projector comes out upside down.

My pet peeve about this is that if you want to work in slate mode for doing sketches during a presentation (I do this all the time), you have to turn the machine around so you are still in primary landscape mode. This puts all the connectors facing you. The alternative is to invert the image on the projector.

The real issue for me is that I often switch back and forth from laptop to slate mode several times in the course of a presentation so changing the settings on the projector is difficult to do on the fly.

Solution?
If you have access to two machines you can use one as a "viewer" for products like MaxiVista or VNC (or one of its many variants). You connect over a network connection so that this viewer mirrors what is on the Tablet PC.


Connect the projector to the viewer machine and you are off and running, literally. I use a wireless connection between the Tablet PC and the viewing machine, so I can wander about while doing the presentation.

See a discussion at tabletpcbuzz