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<blockquote data-quote="walkerj" data-source="post: 643584" data-attributes="member: 9385"><p>Yes. You need a $20 Mini-DVI to DVI or Mini-DVI to VGA adapter, but other than that no problem.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>However you want it. Mine is arranged vertically but if I had the desk space I could do it side by side, at an angle, wherever. The display preferences show a virtual representation of how you want the monitor configured and you drag each one to where you'd like it to be. In my case the Menu is at the top of the external, and the Dock is at the bottom of the Macbook display. The mouse cursor traverses as though it were one big monitor. When I disconnect the external all windows gather 'down' into the Macbook screen. When I get back and reconnect it remembers my configuration and obediently sets it instantly. Small pet peeve, with Tiger it also remembered where I wanted my open windows to live, but with Leopard it seems to have forgotten to do that. No biggee, I just drag the windows 'up' into the external. EDIT: oh, forgot the background thing. Each display gets it's own background. You can set each to be a different one, the same one, or you can edit one big one into two halves to display on each. Either way you set the background on each display independently.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Pretty large. Mine is a 23" Samsung Syncmaster run at 1680x1050, which is the monitor's native resolution. IIRC the Macbook will drive up to an Apple 23" Cinema or something of that, but pretty much anything widescreen with DVI/VGA connectors that you'd buy at any Costco or the like will work just fine.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="walkerj, post: 643584, member: 9385"] Yes. You need a $20 Mini-DVI to DVI or Mini-DVI to VGA adapter, but other than that no problem. However you want it. Mine is arranged vertically but if I had the desk space I could do it side by side, at an angle, wherever. The display preferences show a virtual representation of how you want the monitor configured and you drag each one to where you'd like it to be. In my case the Menu is at the top of the external, and the Dock is at the bottom of the Macbook display. The mouse cursor traverses as though it were one big monitor. When I disconnect the external all windows gather 'down' into the Macbook screen. When I get back and reconnect it remembers my configuration and obediently sets it instantly. Small pet peeve, with Tiger it also remembered where I wanted my open windows to live, but with Leopard it seems to have forgotten to do that. No biggee, I just drag the windows 'up' into the external. EDIT: oh, forgot the background thing. Each display gets it's own background. You can set each to be a different one, the same one, or you can edit one big one into two halves to display on each. Either way you set the background on each display independently. Pretty large. Mine is a 23" Samsung Syncmaster run at 1680x1050, which is the monitor's native resolution. IIRC the Macbook will drive up to an Apple 23" Cinema or something of that, but pretty much anything widescreen with DVI/VGA connectors that you'd buy at any Costco or the like will work just fine. [/QUOTE]
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