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06-22-2003, 11:20 AM
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iBook display's
This won't affect you guy's but I thought it was cool. The Apple iBook out of the box only supports Video Mirroring to an external monitor, but I wanted to expand my desktop at a higher res on the external. The 12" iBook screen is great for 1 app at a time, but gets limiting with 2 or 3 running. I figured it was possible to drive a separate monitor at higher res as the 12"powerbook supports expanded desktop and they both use the same video etc... So I got to rooting through the boot rom on a 12" powerbook, found the "nvedit" options and made a couple of tests. Bottom line is, I now am driving an external VGA @ 1280x1024 (excellent for premier/photoshop) AND the iBook LCD @ 1024x768 native
 Kinda wondering why this was disabled from the factory, but I usually seem to find a way around these things. Don't try this yourself unless you know how to flash the PRAM and are comfortable hacking the boot rom, as I had a dead iBook there for a minute.
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06-22-2003, 11:23 AM
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Boo! MAC liker!
*throws a rock at oem_guy_2002* |
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06-22-2003, 11:33 AM
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Oem , I got a Power Pc G3 recently. It's a 300 meghrtz with 256 megs of ram. Apple's web site says it good enough to run jaguar but ........ would it really be usable or just to slow?
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06-22-2003, 11:35 AM
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It would be to slow im afraid. My G3 400 w/512 ram does run Jaguar, but it's sluggish. Stick with 9 on that system is prob the best bet.
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06-22-2003, 12:57 PM
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Thanks it's running 8.1 currently I'll go looking for an upgrade.
Can I download MAC files to my PC and copy them to the MAC? |
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06-22-2003, 01:47 PM
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Sure, either burn them to disc, or set up appletalk on the pc and network them.
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