New ibooks monitor spanning?!?!?
Hey,
Has anyone with a new ibook know if it can span monitors? If not has anyone tried the hack w/ the new video card?
I currently have a 700 Combo 12.1 and thinking of upgrading b/c of bigger hard drive and vram. The final straw is monitor spanning...
Thanks in advance!
Has anyone with a new ibook know if it can span monitors? If not has anyone tried the hack w/ the new video card?
I currently have a 700 Combo 12.1 and thinking of upgrading b/c of bigger hard drive and vram. The final straw is monitor spanning...
Thanks in advance!
Comments
and why don't you try the hack on your iBook since it worrks with the 700MHz iBooks?
To zap the NVRAM hold down cmd+option+p+r when cold booting your Mac. Wait for two or three sets of chimes.
<strong>I have a new 800Mhz G3 (ordered yesterday morning, came this afternoon), but I am afraid to be the first to try it out. </strong><hr></blockquote>
Don't be afraid. As the next poster says, you can easily reset the parameter ram with option+command+p+r held down at reboot.
There are thousands of folks all over this web looking for the answer you can give us right now. Do you have an external monitor to hook it up to? PLEASE try the hack. Do you have a copy of the hack? Here's the URL to exactly how to do it and what to type:
<a href="http://www.rutemoeller.com/mp/ibook/ibook_e.html" target="_blank">http://www.rutemoeller.com/mp/ibook/ibook_e.html</a>
Are you there? Please do it for those of us who need to know. Don't you want to know too?
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Don't be afraid. As the next poster says, you can easily reset the parameter ram with option+command+p+r held down at reboot.
There are thousands of folks all over this web looking for the answer you can give us right now. Do you have an external monitor to hook it up to? PLEASE try the hack. Do you have a copy of the hack? Here's the URL to exactly how to do it and what to type:
<a href="http://www.rutemoeller.com/mp/ibook/ibook_e.html" target="_blank">http://www.rutemoeller.com/mp/ibook/ibook_e.html</a>
Are you there? Please do it for those of us who need to know. Don't you want to know too?</strong><hr></blockquote>
Yeah and if it kills his iBook are you going to buy him a new one?
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Yeah and if it kills his iBook are you going to buy him a new one?</strong><hr></blockquote>
It won't KILL it. And yes I would buy him a new one if it did. Don't you know about this hack. It is nondestructive. You just reboot with the option+command+p+r keys depressed to return the PRAM back to the factory settings. Are you daft?!
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It won't KILL it. And yes I would buy him a new one if it did. Don't you know about this hack. It is nondestructive. You just reboot with the option+command+p+r keys depressed to return the PRAM back to the factory settings. Are you daft?!</strong><hr></blockquote>
Well, I ordered the new top of the line iBook (for a few months, anyhow) and I'm just waiting for my new baby to arrive. I would be willing to try out the hack if/when you could provide me with the reasoning behind why it will not kill my new iBook. Until then I'll sit here in eager anticipation for the shipment.
2. Gelding, patching your own firmware with a non-Apple hack voids the warranty.
A@ron
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<strong>1. The firmware patch kills older iBooks, so it could quite possibly kill the new ones. Zapping NVRAM be damned.
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Thank you. That's why I said what I said.
<strong>perhaps apple can "offer" a spanning model of the iBook for an extra 30 bucks or so that allows spanning without the hack??? won't cost them any, so it is free profit...they don't have to offer it on the cheapest one, but maybe only the 800 MHz models....g</strong><hr></blockquote>
It costs them in the sense that it might cause some people to buy ibooks rather than Powerbooks, and Apple makes a lot more money on Powerbooks. The whole reason it is disabled in the first place is to make the Powerbooks seem more feature-laden and powerful.
Unless you really want to make use of this yourself and are also willing to take a pretty big risk with your brand-new machine, wait for someone else to try. Believe me, someone will, if they haven't all ready. We don't know what could happen -- the hack doesn't work with some machines that have the same video cards, but different processor speeds, and we don't really know why. It is entirely possible that it won't work (or at least won't work in its current form) with the new machines. Apple might even have disabled it on purpose, since this has been getting a fair amount of press in the apple world.
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It costs them in the sense that it might cause some people to buy ibooks rather than Powerbooks, and Apple makes a lot more money on Powerbooks. The whole reason it is disabled in the first place is to make the Powerbooks seem more feature-laden and powerful.
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But if people know that there's a way to get it to work on iBooks then I doubt they'd go for the Powerbook if they didn't have to.
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But if people know that there's a way to get it to work on iBooks then I doubt they'd go for the Powerbook if they didn't have to.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Possibly, but a lot of people don't frequent these kinds of forums, so I think most don't know this is possible, and a lot of people wouldn't consider doing it anyway. It would be a different story if Apple included it as an official feature. But I don't really want to be in the position of defending this -- I think that purposely crippling hardware to make the high-end options more attractive sucks.
sorry for the long, rambling post
[quote] This is bad news for me, though, as the odds of me being a complete goofus and buying a new iBook have just gone up a little more....
Erik <hr></blockquote>
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Doshin, you, my friend, have just cost me about $2000. (iBook +upgrade to 40gb, + iPod + RAM + AppleCare +maybe a printer so I can finally print from OS X. <hr></blockquote>
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