PC for presentation screen in work

[EddScott]

My work has decided to put up a big screen in the conference room to help with presentations to clients. As the only person in the office that knows anything about computers, it's been left to me to set it all up.

The computer in the room at the moment has an i3 processor with 4gb ram and video is handled by the motherboard. Nothing particularly fancy. The motherboard does have HDMI out.

We will only be showing graphs and powerpoint presentations so nothing demanding. Does it need a graphics card?

Monitors - we have decided 40" is enough as the room isn't that big. There are a couple of 40"+ monitors on OCUK but they seem quite expensive. Could we not just buy a 40" TV with HDMI? There's a good £200+ difference here.

Any suggestions/help/opinions are welcome.

 

[ExRayTed]

On board GPU will be fine and I'd suggest a TV with the needed outputs. We use similar at work and presentations run fine from our i5 (dual core with HT) laptops with 4gb RAM.

 

[varkanoid]

We were in a same position with a smallish rectangle meeting room downstairs and they insisted on a 40" TV which was actually spare but I suggested a HD projector and screen would be more suitable. One of the reasons is they thought they could watch TV on it till I told them the company doesnt have A) a TV aerial and B) A TV Licence (internet TV). So they still want it. After a week or so they started moaning about the TV had poor viewing angles and they couldnt alter the size as easy, the text was awful etc etc.

So they ended up with a Screen and HD projector for about £550. Not had a complaint since.