You can, but it will act as a mirror of the internal monitor on the iBook, and not as a second monitor.
There's more to this limitation. Because the iBook's internal resolution is 1024x768, you can't go above that resolution on an external monitor. This is very impractical with my 1280x1024 external LCD, which scales the 1024x768 input to its 1280x1024 pixels, generating a horizontally squished (narrow) image.
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(And about that sidewalk part, well, that?s just a nice story, but nowhere near the truth. )
I'm not so sure, Defiant. When I was young, you could eat off the sidewalk in Switzerland. Of course, nowadays...
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Originally posted by The Installer
Tag wohl, Escher
Ja guete Tag Herr Installer. Wider am Wandere im Wallis? Order haets no zvil Schnee?
So, how do you like that new 14" iBook G4/1.2Ghz with SuperDrive? Does it fulfill your expectations and needs? And on topic, have you already painted the bezel?
Wider am Wandere im Wallis? Order haets no zvil Schnee?
So, how do you like that new 14" iBook G4/1.2Ghz with SuperDrive? Does it fulfill your expectations and needs? And on topic, have you already painted the bezel?
I have not yet received it from the Apple Store. Seems a bit of a slow operation. Will post again when I have got it.
got the iBook last Friday and have been playing around with it a fair bit since, scratching every surface possible in the process. Geez, let your finger nail slip off the the track pad ever so slightly and there's a mark. I do think the material(s) used for the finish are totally unsuitable. I even get scratches from putting the iBook into my Tucano case
As to the mechanics of the machine, I am very impressed. Solidly built, and I doesn't seem to have any of the warping/badly fitting battery issues. The viewing angle could be better though. This is very noticable when watching DVD's.
I *do* like the 14" screen, meaning that images appear larger than En-print size on it. And I also like the price.
A big let-down, however, is the OS X fuzzy font issue. Why can't Apple sort this out? OS X has been around long enough. Leaving my old Apple flat screen Studio display (OS 9.2) to work on the iBook is a *huge* shock every time.
Apart from that, and having changed the GUI to something more pleasing, it's basically full steam ahead
got the iBook last Friday and have been playing around with it a fair bit since, scratching every surface possible in the process. Geez, let your finger nail slip off the the track pad ever so slightly and there's a mark.
The Installer: The situation is similar with my older iBook G3/500. But it only scratches heavily on the outside, very little on the inside. The only solution is not to pay attention to scratches, since they don't affect performance and functionality at all.
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As to the mechanics of the machine, I am very impressed.
That's great to hear. My wife is buying me a 12-inch PowerBook as a graduation present, but is waiting until June to order it. In the meantime, I am still terribly tempted to opt for the 12" iBook.
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I *do* like the 14" screen, meaning that images appear larger than En-print size on it.
I fully understand that the larger pixels on the 14" display make a big difference. After all, I run the 1280x1024 LCD that is attached to my Wintel box at 1024x768, even though it distorts the image. (Windows is ugly anyway, and I don't do any graphics on it, so I can live with the distortion.) If portability is not the top priority, the 14" display is a very good choice.
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And I also like the price.
The iBook is just such a great value. I still like the ruggedness and longer battery life, but refuse to live without clamshell mode at more than 1024x768. So I'll still get a 12-inch PowerBook.
Completely on topic: So when are you painting your new iBook's bezel?
Completely off topic: I officially graduate from law school this Saturday. I have already started studying for the bar exam, which is at the end of July. The bar is one of those do or die things in life. I can't afford to flunk it. So I will be signing off from AI completely sometime this week to avoid any possible distraction. But I hope to see everyone again in August.
Hello TI, Hello Escher, Hello Defiant : nice to see you around.
sorry to disapoint you TI : I bought a Canon 10 D. Sure the D70 is great, but I had already an EOS 10 (film) and two glasses. I buyed some glasses also. I have steady hands with my 24-70 L and my Sigma 15-30 EX, but I am a disaster with the sigma 100-300 EX F4.
Do you have any advices how to hold such big beasts ? (and not big breasts )
Merçi bien, Powerdoc. J'espère bien aussi. Au moins, ici en Amérique on peut passer le barreau deux mois après avoir fini ses études de droit, tandis qu'en Europe il faut d'abord passer deux ans comme avocât stagiaire.
Amicalement,
Escher
Ah oui les deux années d'exploitation comme avocat stagiaire, des amis avocats m'en ont parlé ...
Completely on topic: So when are you painting your new iBook's bezel?
Completely off topic: I officially graduate from law school this Saturday. I have already started studying for the bar exam, which is at the end of July. The bar is one of those do or die things in life. I can't afford to flunk it. So I will be signing off from AI completely sometime this week to avoid any possible distraction. But I hope to see everyone again in August.
Ach, Bezel, Schmezel... what's the difference
Let me be the first, well the second anyway, to wish you all the very best for your exam. Once you have passed, you should be able to afford the 17" PowerBook, as I understand that lawyers earn a lot of money, even more than plastic surgeons
Let me be the first, well the second anyway, to wish you all the very best for your exam. Once you have passed, you should be able to afford the 17" PowerBook, as I understand that lawyers earn a lot of money, even more than plastic surgeons
Best o' luck then, Escher
- T. I.
I knew that I should have done alu surgery
I'll hope that you will enjoy your Powerbook. Did some of your photographers friends tried DxO photo pro ?
Glad you're happy with your iBook out of the box and don't need a paint job.
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Let me be the first, well the second anyway, to wish you all the very best for your exam.
Thank you, T.I. Every little bit helps.
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Once you have passed, you should be able to afford the 17" PowerBook, as I understand that lawyers earn a lot of money, even more than plastic surgeons
As always, it depends on which lawyer or plastic surgeon. I'm sure Michael Jackson's plastic surgeon(s) and lawyer(s) are making good money. But other plastic surgeons and lawyers may not be as lucky.
My wife is buying me a 12-inch PowerBook next month. So my needs will be filled even before I take the bar. Some lawyers do indeed earn a lot of money. However, I am still looking for a job. So it's impossible to tell whether I will be a well paid one or not. If I am, you can rest assured that some of my income will go to our favorite fruit company. If not, maybe I'll have more time to spend here at AI.
Can you please point me towards DxO photo. I have never heard of it. TIA
- T. I.
Well DxO photo pro is a software (both avalaible for PC and soon for mac) who is able to correct automatically in a quarter of minute (on a P4 2,4) the vignetting, lateral chromatic aberration, geomitrical distorsion, and sharpness of a picture.
How does it works ? Some extended tests are done by photographing a pattern with a specific lens and a specific body. This pattern is compared by the virtual pattern inside the computers, and the computer notice the difference in term of noise, vignetting, lateral chromatic abberation, sharpness and geomitrical distorsion (even the complicated ones created by the latest Ultra wide angle zooms).
This test is achieved at every stop at every focal lenght. A typical test recquieres 15 days. This tests are made on several samples.
When this test is done, the software has made a characterization of this lens. By reverse engineering the software is able to reverse automatically the process and to enhance the quality of the image.
Some people argues, that manual photoshopping work do the same work. But this soft is able to do what photoshop is not able to do like correcting the chromatic abberation. Also increasing the sharpness via DO, do not change and in fact improve the light/contrast balance and do not add any noise. For the record a typical sharp filter of photoshop increase the level of noise by 3 db.
This soft is only at the earliest stages of developpement, and the mac version seems little buggy for the moment. But I think this technology seems to have a future.
I envisage a future scenario where Powerdoc's clients come to you to sue him for mistakes he has made
Any plastic surgery is a mistake. (NB, Powerdoc: je rigole.) But I'll be happy to help them long as they have liposucked thin waists, siliconed big boobs and collagened pouty lips... and pay my bills on time.
Any plastic surgery is a mistake. (NB, Powerdoc: je rigole.) But I'll be happy to help them long as they have liposucked thin waists, siliconed big boobs and collagened pouty lips... and pay my bills on time.
Escher
I have a friend who is lawyer : he sued me in the past and he win
That was before I knew him, otherwise he will have refused this job.
However I do not push people to do plastic surgery. I piss people many time when I say that I don't want to do any surgery on them. But it bring me some peace.
Esthetic surgery is only 20 % of my busisness, for the record I practiced 900 skin surgery procedures in 2003 (from the simpliest one to the more complicated one).
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Originally posted by Defiant
You can, but it will act as a mirror of the internal monitor on the iBook, and not as a second monitor.
There's more to this limitation. Because the iBook's internal resolution is 1024x768, you can't go above that resolution on an external monitor. This is very impractical with my 1280x1024 external LCD, which scales the 1024x768 input to its 1280x1024 pixels, generating a horizontally squished (narrow) image.
(And about that sidewalk part, well, that?s just a nice story, but nowhere near the truth.
I'm not so sure, Defiant. When I was young, you could eat off the sidewalk in Switzerland. Of course, nowadays...
Originally posted by The Installer
Tag wohl, Escher
Ja guete Tag Herr Installer. Wider am Wandere im Wallis? Order haets no zvil Schnee?
So, how do you like that new 14" iBook G4/1.2Ghz with SuperDrive? Does it fulfill your expectations and needs? And on topic, have you already painted the bezel?
Escher
Originally posted by Escher
Wider am Wandere im Wallis? Order haets no zvil Schnee?
So, how do you like that new 14" iBook G4/1.2Ghz with SuperDrive? Does it fulfill your expectations and needs? And on topic, have you already painted the bezel?
I have not yet received it from the Apple Store. Seems a bit of a slow operation. Will post again when I have got it.
Nee, s'haet ka Schnee mehr. Not where I am anyway
- T. I. (spray can in hand)
Hello Escher,
got the iBook last Friday and have been playing around with it a fair bit since, scratching every surface possible in the process. Geez, let your finger nail slip off the the track pad ever so slightly and there's a mark. I do think the material(s) used for the finish are totally unsuitable. I even get scratches from putting the iBook into my Tucano case
As to the mechanics of the machine, I am very impressed. Solidly built, and I doesn't seem to have any of the warping/badly fitting battery issues. The viewing angle could be better though. This is very noticable when watching DVD's.
I *do* like the 14" screen, meaning that images appear larger than En-print size on it. And I also like the price.
A big let-down, however, is the OS X fuzzy font issue. Why can't Apple sort this out? OS X has been around long enough. Leaving my old Apple flat screen Studio display (OS 9.2) to work on the iBook is a *huge* shock every time.
Apart from that, and having changed the GUI to something more pleasing, it's basically full steam ahead
- T. I.
Originally posted by The Installer
got the iBook last Friday and have been playing around with it a fair bit since, scratching every surface possible in the process. Geez, let your finger nail slip off the the track pad ever so slightly and there's a mark.
The Installer: The situation is similar with my older iBook G3/500. But it only scratches heavily on the outside, very little on the inside. The only solution is not to pay attention to scratches, since they don't affect performance and functionality at all.
As to the mechanics of the machine, I am very impressed.
That's great to hear. My wife is buying me a 12-inch PowerBook as a graduation present, but is waiting until June to order it. In the meantime, I am still terribly tempted to opt for the 12" iBook.
I *do* like the 14" screen, meaning that images appear larger than En-print size on it.
I fully understand that the larger pixels on the 14" display make a big difference. After all, I run the 1280x1024 LCD that is attached to my Wintel box at 1024x768, even though it distorts the image. (Windows is ugly anyway, and I don't do any graphics on it, so I can live with the distortion.) If portability is not the top priority, the 14" display is a very good choice.
And I also like the price.
The iBook is just such a great value. I still like the ruggedness and longer battery life, but refuse to live without clamshell mode at more than 1024x768. So I'll still get a 12-inch PowerBook.
Completely on topic: So when are you painting your new iBook's bezel?
Completely off topic: I officially graduate from law school this Saturday. I have already started studying for the bar exam, which is at the end of July. The bar is one of those do or die things in life. I can't afford to flunk it. So I will be signing off from AI completely sometime this week to avoid any possible distraction. But I hope to see everyone again in August.
Cheers,
Escher
sorry to disapoint you TI
Do you have any advices how to hold such big beasts ? (and not big breasts
Originally posted by Powerdoc
Escher : mes meilleurs voeux de reussite pour cet examen. Je n'ai bossé que deux fois dans ma vie : pour le concour d'entrée en médecine et pour le concour de l'internat. Je ne le regrette pas. A bientot en Automne avec des bonnes nouvelles Ã* la clef je l'espere
Merçi bien, Powerdoc. J'espère bien aussi. Au moins, ici en Amérique on peut passer le barreau deux mois après avoir fini ses études de droit, tandis qu'en Europe il faut d'abord passer deux ans comme avocât stagiaire.
Amicalement,
Escher
Originally posted by Escher
Merçi bien, Powerdoc. J'espère bien aussi. Au moins, ici en Amérique on peut passer le barreau deux mois après avoir fini ses études de droit, tandis qu'en Europe il faut d'abord passer deux ans comme avocât stagiaire.
Amicalement,
Escher
Ah oui les deux années d'exploitation comme avocat stagiaire, des amis avocats m'en ont parlé ...
Originally posted by Powerdoc
Ah oui les deux années d'exploitation comme avocat stagiaire, des amis avocats m'en ont parlé ...
Ça ne pourrait pas être pire qu'un internât en médecine...
Escher
Originally posted by Escher
Completely on topic: So when are you painting your new iBook's bezel?
Completely off topic: I officially graduate from law school this Saturday. I have already started studying for the bar exam, which is at the end of July. The bar is one of those do or die things in life. I can't afford to flunk it. So I will be signing off from AI completely sometime this week to avoid any possible distraction. But I hope to see everyone again in August.
Ach, Bezel, Schmezel... what's the difference
Let me be the first, well the second anyway, to wish you all the very best for your exam. Once you have passed, you should be able to afford the 17" PowerBook, as I understand that lawyers
Best o' luck then, Escher
- T. I.
Originally posted by The Installer
Ach, Bezel, Schmezel... what's the difference
Let me be the first, well the second anyway, to wish you all the very best for your exam. Once you have passed, you should be able to afford the 17" PowerBook, as I understand that lawyers
Best o' luck then, Escher
- T. I.
I knew that I should have done alu surgery
I'll hope that you will enjoy your Powerbook. Did some of your photographers friends tried DxO photo pro ?
Originally posted by Powerdoc
I'll hope that you will enjoy your Powerbook. Did some of your photographers friends tried DxO photo pro ?
Actually it's an iBook, idoc, I mean, Powerdoc
Can you please point me towards DxO photo. I have never heard of it. TIA
- T. I.
Originally posted by The Installer
Ach, Bezel, Schmezel... what's the difference
Glad you're happy with your iBook out of the box and don't need a paint job.
Let me be the first, well the second anyway, to wish you all the very best for your exam.
Thank you, T.I. Every little bit helps.
Once you have passed, you should be able to afford the 17" PowerBook, as I understand that lawyers
As always, it depends on which lawyer or plastic surgeon. I'm sure Michael Jackson's plastic surgeon(s) and lawyer(s) are making good money. But other plastic surgeons and lawyers may not be as lucky.
My wife is buying me a 12-inch PowerBook next month. So my needs will be filled even before I take the bar. Some lawyers do indeed earn a lot of money. However, I am still looking for a job. So it's impossible to tell whether I will be a well paid one or not. If I am, you can rest assured that some of my income will go to our favorite fruit company. If not, maybe I'll have more time to spend here at AI.
Guet' Nacht!
Escher
Originally posted by The Installer
Actually it's an iBook, idoc, I mean, Powerdoc
Can you please point me towards DxO photo. I have never heard of it. TIA
- T. I.
Well DxO photo pro is a software (both avalaible for PC and soon for mac) who is able to correct automatically in a quarter of minute (on a P4 2,4) the vignetting, lateral chromatic aberration, geomitrical distorsion, and sharpness of a picture.
How does it works ? Some extended tests are done by photographing a pattern with a specific lens and a specific body. This pattern is compared by the virtual pattern inside the computers, and the computer notice the difference in term of noise, vignetting, lateral chromatic abberation, sharpness and geomitrical distorsion (even the complicated ones created by the latest Ultra wide angle zooms).
This test is achieved at every stop at every focal lenght. A typical test recquieres 15 days. This tests are made on several samples.
When this test is done, the software has made a characterization of this lens. By reverse engineering the software is able to reverse automatically the process and to enhance the quality of the image.
Some people argues, that manual photoshopping work do the same work. But this soft is able to do what photoshop is not able to do like correcting the chromatic abberation. Also increasing the sharpness via DO, do not change and in fact improve the light/contrast balance and do not add any noise. For the record a typical sharp filter of photoshop increase the level of noise by 3 db.
This soft is only at the earliest stages of developpement, and the mac version seems little buggy for the moment. But I think this technology seems to have a future.
Are you actually using this software?
- T. I.
Originally posted by Escher
As always, it depends on which lawyer or plastic surgeon.
I envisage a future scenario where Powerdoc's clients come to you to sue him for mistakes he has made
One big happy AI community
- T. I.
Originally posted by The Installer
I envisage a future scenario where Powerdoc's clients come to you to sue him for mistakes he has made
Any plastic surgery is a mistake.
Escher
Originally posted by The Installer
Thanks for the link and all the information, Powerdoc. Interesting.
Are you actually using this software?
- T. I.
No but I consider to use it : excellent for the lazy photographer that I am.
Originally posted by Escher
Any plastic surgery is a mistake.
Escher
I have a friend who is lawyer : he sued me in the past and he win
That was before I knew him, otherwise he will have refused this job.
However I do not push people to do plastic surgery. I piss people many time when I say that I don't want to do any surgery on them. But it bring me some peace.
Esthetic surgery is only 20 % of my busisness, for the record I practiced 900 skin surgery procedures in 2003 (from the simpliest one to the more complicated one).
Originally posted by Powerdoc
Esthetic surgery is only 20 % of my busisness, for the record I practiced 900 skin surgery procedures...
Time to put on my white coat before I carry on reading, I think
BTW the iBook is white
-T. I.