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G4 Tips on Connecting to an External Monitor?
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<blockquote data-quote="pigoo3" data-source="post: 910957" data-attributes="member: 56379"><p>If by "not as good" as your iBook you mean the quality is not as good...as "Sur3mac" mentioned, your iBook's external monitor abilities are "mirroring" only...so you can only mirror the resolution that is on your iBook (1024 x 768).</p><p></p><p>A 23" monitor is a pretty good size display...and as you may know, LCD monitors have a "native" resolution where they look their best.</p><p></p><p>Your 23" display is probably a "widescreen" format monitor (16:9), and probably has a native resolution of 1680x1050, 1920 x 1080, or 1920 x 1200.</p><p></p><p>So forcing it to run at 1024 x 768 (a 4:3 format) will stretch things horizontally...and cause the text & graphics to not be as sharp as it would be at it's "native" resolution.</p><p></p><p>Hope this helps,</p><p></p><p>- Nick</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pigoo3, post: 910957, member: 56379"] If by "not as good" as your iBook you mean the quality is not as good...as "Sur3mac" mentioned, your iBook's external monitor abilities are "mirroring" only...so you can only mirror the resolution that is on your iBook (1024 x 768). A 23" monitor is a pretty good size display...and as you may know, LCD monitors have a "native" resolution where they look their best. Your 23" display is probably a "widescreen" format monitor (16:9), and probably has a native resolution of 1680x1050, 1920 x 1080, or 1920 x 1200. So forcing it to run at 1024 x 768 (a 4:3 format) will stretch things horizontally...and cause the text & graphics to not be as sharp as it would be at it's "native" resolution. Hope this helps, - Nick [/QUOTE]
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