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- Soler
Anyone have any experience hooking an Apple flat panel plastic display to a powerbook? [mini-dvi to dvi, then dvi to ADC]
The resolution looks pretty bad on the large display.
Ive set the screen res individually for each one... but it only looks good on the Flat panel when it is smaller and surrounded by a black border... doesn't seem right.
any help appreciated.. Thanks
- Soler0
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- MIJA0
I'd visit my friendly neighborhood Mac store.
I'd help you out but I'm waiting for my new flat panel to ship.
- DBitW0
Look at your System Prefs, your resolution on a mirrored display deaults to 800x600, you can set everything in there.
- Soler0
In the prefs you can set em individually.
I set the Flatty to 1024 x 768, and the pb to its optumum, I think a bit smaller cos its a 12 inch.
- Meeklo0
I had no problem at all..
flat or crt, are you sure the flat panel works right?
did you tried it with a regular computer?
- Soler0
yeah, the 17" apple flat was hooked up to my tower..... Now its connected to the 12" pb, mini dvi-dvi, dvi-adc.
I wonder if its all the adapters... but they said it should look fine cos its all digital...
- jon_0
all flat screens have an ideal resolution, the 17" studio display is 1280x1024.
you need to set the display for the flat screen to 1280x1024 in order to do this, the 12" powerbook should be capable of this resolution.
if you set a flat screen to anything other than that it will try to fit the pixels as closely as possible to what it has available but it won't be perfect. It'll look a little like really shoddy anti aliasing.
- Soler0
Hmmmmm. Actually the pb is only capable of 1024 x 768
so does that mean thats the max for the flat panel? that would suck
- jon_0
right i've just tested my 12" pb and it's quite happily outputting to a monitor at 1280x1024
admittedly this is an analogue monitor not a digital flat display, but there should be no difference except the fact it should look better on your display than my crummy old monitor.
- Soler0
Thanks... I'll try it tonight
- TenaciousG0
I have a 12 inch powerbook, and your PB suports higher res on external displays than it can on it's own screen. Set the prefs. for the large screen to the 1280 setting, and make sure there isn't any dust in your connections.