A few weeks back, Microsoft asked if I’d be interested in writing some Windows 10 blog posts if they could arrange a demo machine for me for a few months.\u00a0 I thought it seemed like a good idea, signed the paperwork when it came through, and promptly forgot about it whilst I immersed myself in work!<\/p>\n
Then, earlier this week, I got a text from my wife that said:<\/p>\n
“[…] We have a mystery parcel from Lenovo here… [my son] is speculating… what time will you be home this evening? […]”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
At first I had to think “what have I bought from Lenovo?” (funnily enough, that’s what Mrs W was thinking too…) but then I remembered the PC that Microsoft were sending…<\/p>\n
I got home to find my two geeks apprentices, aged nearly-9 and nearly-11, desperate to see what was in the box and help me set it up.\u00a0 Within minutes, the Lenovo B50 all-in-one PC<\/a> was taking up a sizable chunk of my desk and, over the next few months I’m hoping to write at least one Windows 10 post each week.<\/p>\n
Having an all-in one PC has another use though: I’ve been considering buying a new monitor for a while, to use with my company-supplied Surface Pro 3<\/a>\u00a0when I’m working at home\u00a0and I wondered if the B50 would do the job for the next few months. As it happens, yes it will –\u00a0the tech-specs include both HDMI output (to a second monitor) and input<\/a>\u00a0– but I couldn’t work out how to get it working (and both ports are labelled as output). I knew it was possible though as Brian Fagioli’s Betanews review mentions using the all-in-one as a display<\/a>.<\/p>\n