{"id":3093,"date":"2014-03-23T15:28:45","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T21:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=3093"},"modified":"2014-03-23T15:28:52","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T21:28:52","slug":"more-on-the-dell-optiplex-780","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=3093","title":{"rendered":"More on the Dell Optiplex 780"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not a great deal of time today, but I realized I left out an important fact about the Dell 780, and presumably the other USFF machines in the same case like the 980: The all-in-one mount is <em>not<\/em> VESA compatible, and will only take Dell monitors. The all-in-one mounts for the two earlier USFF case styles (SX270 and SX280) took any 10cm VESA monitor. The flipside is true, too: More recent Dell monitors are not VESA compatible, and use the same proprietary tab-and-button mount as the 780-family all-in-one mount. Be careful when you&#8217;re assembling a refurb system. Not everything from Dell fits everthing else from Dell.<\/p>\n<p>That said, if you&#8217;re going to use a Dell LCD monitor, Dell has <a href=\"http:\/\/en.community.dell.com\/cfs-file.ashx\/__key\/communityserver-discussions-components-files\/3529\/7103.soundbar.gif\" target=\"_blank\">a very nice amplified speaker bar that clips securely to the bottom edge of the monitor<\/a>. It&#8217;s the AS501, and you can get NOS units from eBay for $15 shipped. All of the Dell UltraSharp monitors that I have here provide a 5V barrel jack on the back of the monitor to power the AS501. Very good fidelity, and certainly sufficient volume for puttering around your office or workshop. The 780 contains a tiny internal speaker, roughly equivalent to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=1758\" target=\"_blank\">the one in the SX280<\/a>, but it&#8217;s not good for much beyond notification sounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not a great deal of time today, but I realized I left out an important fact about the Dell 780, and presumably the other USFF machines in the same case like the 980: The all-in-one mount is not VESA compatible, and will only take Dell monitors. The all-in-one mounts for the two earlier USFF case [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-3093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tutorials","tag-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3094,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093\/revisions\/3094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}