Anyone notice this about the new iMac yet?
Seems when Apple lets Intel help build their machines, it becomes a little harder to intentionally cripple them as well.
From the new iMac spec page..
Support for external display in extended desktop and video mirroring modes
* Digital resolutions up to 1920 x 1200
* Analog resolutions up to 2045 x 1536
Support for external displays AND dual-core processing.. seems like Apple just obsoleted most of the PowerMacs as well.
Nick
From the new iMac spec page..
Support for external display in extended desktop and video mirroring modes
* Digital resolutions up to 1920 x 1200
* Analog resolutions up to 2045 x 1536
Support for external displays AND dual-core processing.. seems like Apple just obsoleted most of the PowerMacs as well.
Nick
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Originally posted by trumptman
Seems when Apple lets Intel help build their machines, it becomes a little harder to intentionally cripple them as well.
I don't think this is the reason. It seems to me that Apple just got a lot more aggressive with the iMac lately, a behavior forgotten in the G4 and early G5 days.
Originally posted by PB
I don't think this is the reason. It seems to me that Apple just got a lot more aggressive with the iMac lately, a behavior forgotten in the G4 and early G5 days.
i hope apple got some aggressiveness left for the 'whatever-they'll-call-the-intel-ibook'...
The specint benchmarks are very similar.
Its MacBook PRO
Untill the iMac got the G5 in them they were always more or less a desktop PowerBook
http://www.apple.com/imac/graphics.html
And scroll down to the bottom ? entitled "Take In More Pixels". Yeah!!!
From the new iMac spec page..
Support for external display in extended desktop and video mirroring modes
* Digital resolutions up to 1920 x 1200
* Analog resolutions up to 2045 x 1536
Does anyone know if it may now be possible to use the i(ntel)Mac as an external display?
Originally posted by Telomar
Nope you can run an external display from it but it still has no inputs to work as a monitor. Why would you want to exactly?
Researching recently into which external display to get for my ageing TiBook it occured that I might be able use an iMac G5. That way I'd retain the mobile capabilty when needed and have another Mac ? attached to the display, so to speak ? for around the same price as I'd been quoted for the display alone.
Having been categorically advised that this set up was not possible, I forgot the whole thing. Then I noticed that the i(ntel)Mac sports a connector for an external display so I became curious as to whether this might also permit video input from another Mac.
Idle and perverse speculations no doubt but I thought I'd invite comment. Thank you for your reply.
Originally posted by Cubit
Does this mean that I could buy a new iMac (intel) and run a 23" Apple HD display from it?
Yes.
Originally posted by DHagan4755
Yes.
Anyone have any experience on this? I take it this is not mirroring, but if it is a full second screen, like running a Cinema Display HD from my Al Book G4, it might have solved my problems! You see, I already have all the hardware-- old Cinema 22" and 15" running from my Cubes, a reasonably new 23" Cinema HD getting rare use when I hook it up to my PB at home or when it was just sitting on my office desk since the G4^3 could not drive it. My wife uses our G4 iMac20" and is addicted to it.
Couldn't bring myself to go PowerMac G5 just because I had two monitors and once used to the large ones I could not see going back to either 17" or 20" iMac, but now if I can hook up the 23" display, I've got all I want and a remote too! I can play those Japanese DVDs on one system and the rest of our collection for our zone (US) on the new set up without skipping a beat!
Originally posted by Merovingian
Go to here:
http://www.apple.com/imac/graphics.html
And scroll down to the bottom ? entitled "Take In More Pixels". Yeah!!!
Thank you for leading me deeper into the iMac description forest Merogingian. Charlemagne Rules!
Originally posted by CheapFrag
Now that apple has allowed spanning on consumer models (ibook or whatever will get it too) the defining pro factor for video display is support for dual-link dvi.
hurray!
i never thought i'd see the day...
Originally posted by Cubit
Anyone have any experience on this? I take it this is not mirroring, but if it is a full second screen, like running a Cinema Display HD from my Al Book G4, it might have solved my problems! You see, I already have all the hardware-- old Cinema 22" and 15" running from my Cubes, a reasonably new 23" Cinema HD getting rare use when I hook it up to my PB at home or when it was just sitting on my office desk since the G4^3 could not drive it. My wife uses our G4 iMac20" and is addicted to it.
I have a 21" CRT hooked up to my Intel iMac with an extended desktop. My CRT is the primary screen and the iMac is secondary. I sure do want a 23" ACD though...
Originally posted by CheapFrag
Now that apple has allowed spanning on consumer models (ibook or whatever will get it too) the defining pro factor for video display is support for dual-link dvi.
probably not!
my guess MacBook (iBook) will support only DVI out
(as of now, it has only VGA out)
MacBook - DVI
MacBook Pro - Dual DVI
iMac - mini DVI - cannot drive 30"
Mac Pro - Best graphic card in the planet with Dual DVI
you see the difference b/n pro and consumer line?
Originally posted by CheapFrag
Now that apple has allowed spanning on consumer models (ibook or whatever will get it too) the defining pro factor for video display is support for dual-link dvi.
How about being able to stuff up to 8 gig of ram into the sucker...
Originally posted by Spinnetti
Related, I noticed that you can change the screen orientation from landscape to Portrait, which is like the old pivot monitors (I assume only useful with a VESA mount).. Was it always able to do this? I don't remember that on my G5 iMac
I missed that one Spinnetti. Where is that described? I used to have one of those landscape monitors, back in the IIci days....