Laptops have their screen built-in. It's not a monitor. Besides, no one calls a laptop a PC. They call it a laptop. PC is generally known as a desktop.
Nowadays most pc monitors are just another LCD display, the same thing you watch your television, dvds, console games on. Although you do need the special VGA or DVI adaptor cable because MS is greedy and designed the Xbox to use a nonstandard connector and insist you having to buy their MS cable to play on your monitor.
You are going to need some sort of capture card, you have a VGA port on the laptop, but it for output only. Even if you do get a card, its not going to work for gaming, there will be a processing delay between what the Xbox outputs and what gets displayed on the laptops screen. The capture card doesnt output directly to the screen, it sends it to the laptop and it has to actually "think" about what it is going to display. I saw this is action a few years back when a friend bought a new Toshiba with video input, it made just enough of a delay to make the games unplayable.
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