Use surface book as a display

[Cmiller00000]

Hi guys wondering if you can help in having to move in with a friend for a couple of months and don't have space to fit a tv but I really want to take my ps4 and Xbox one with me which there is space for. My question is if I got a mini display to HDMI cable could I connect my ps4 and Xbox to the surface and use it just as a screen.

Cheers

 

[13thmonkey]

Unless you have information that states that the HDMi can be an input, then for 99% of laptops the HDMI is output only.

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

Microsoft Surface portables cannot take video input, only the Surface Hub can do that, a different beast altogether:

https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-surface-hub/en-gb/product-specs#tech-specs

Even the top-of-the-range Surface Pro 4 doesn't have a video input:

https://www.microsoft.com/surface/en-gb/support/getting-started/surface-pro-4-features