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So.... Adventures in stud finding.
I picked up a rare earth magnet stud finder and hung it on a string, per Gris' suggestion. This *seemed* to work! I ran it along the wall, and it seemed to find a nail or something, and there seemed to be a consistent line up and down. So I drilled.
Into empty wall.
So I tried it again, and again seemed to find a stud about a foot away, so I figured this was the actual stud this time. So I drilled.
Into empty wall.
At that point, I just pulled out a wire hanger, opened the hook slightly, stuck it into both holes, and discovered the stud was precisely in between my two bad holes.
So, now I have my TV mounted to the wall. And several holes in my wall. That are mostly covered up by the TV. Mostly.
Tricksy wall. Glad you got the TV hung, anyway. When I had walls like that I just gave up.
Ha! Sorry, Sean. Maybe there were some finishing naiks or something? Plaster is bad.
The facilities people at the last place I worked were seriously incompetent picture hangers. Every picture on the wall had four or five holes behind it.
You don't want to see my walls. There's lots of spackle and sanding in my future.
Someone please tell me I don't need a Macbook Air. I have two laptops and an iPad Air. But it's really pretty and shiny, and an open box deal.
I love my MacBook Air, so I'll be an enabler and say go get it!
I confess I haven't looked at the various jacks on my TV, but would a standard network cable be sufficient to plug my laptop into the TV to watch things from the laptop? Would that be different if I was trying to run the Internet to the TV?
Network cables generally don't carry audio and video. You would need a cord specifically designed to carry video. If it's a fairly modern laptop it probably has an HDMI or Mini Display port output; running from that to your TV simply requires the right cord. What's the make and model of your laptop and TV?
TV's a Visio, a few years old, laptop's a Dell. I'll see if I have an HDMI cable anywhere about. It's been hooked up to the TV before, I just have to remember how.
If your laptop can't do HDMI it is possible that your laptop and TV both use have VGA ports: my older TV has one. That's the same port yiu would use to hook up to an older projector or monitor.
