How do I hook my laptop up to my flat screen?

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Just a Male – Male VGA cord, as you would hook up a LCD to a Tower PC, assuming your TV has a VGA port. If not does your laptop have RGB/ DVI/ HDMI ports? if it does then you can connect it to your TV through that.

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