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Marc wrote:

no...... and ADC to anything will cost you over $100. DVI to VGA is what you have because they cost next to nothing

No it won't.  DVI --> ADC will cost you over a hundred bucks because it's more than just an adapter it also has a power brick, etc and will let you use an ADC monitor with a video card that only has a DVI port.    An ADC to DVI dongle will cost you 25 bucks and will allow you to use a DVI monitor on a video card with an ADC port.

fuzzynormal wrote:

My pop was so impressed with the 3 monitor set-up I have going (1 21" LCD and 2 17" CRT's) that he allowed me to plug another screen into his eMac.  Easy to do and it's amazing how the increased real-estate breezes the computing along.

If you have a laptop or Emac that supports it, give the dual screen thing a try.  Neat-o.

Which eMac supports  monitor spanning? I'm not aware of any that support it without hacking the firmware.

Some other people in this thread have mentioned connecting a second monitor to their iMac as well. Again, which iMac do you have that supports video spanning without a hack?

Later, Frank

Dual monitors are great for work, the ability to have many more programs open and viewable is nice. Then you realize you can watch a movie fullscreen and have another screen for work, and suddenly it's no longer so efficient.

I have an MDD dual Gig G4 with dual monitors. I had three monitors for a while. I had a Matrox RTMac card that added a VGA (at only 800x600). That card is obsolete now and has virtually no OSX support so I don't use it anymore. three monitors was nice. I had my 17" Apple studio LCD in the middle ad the main desktop, a Viewsonic 19" on the right that handled all of my tool pallets, and an old 15" CRT on the left that always had my clock, CPU viewer, print monitor and other things that I liked to have up but didn't want to waist usable screen on.

I'm looking to get a new G5. I can't afford to get new screens with it. I will have to get two Dr. Bot ADC adapters ($100 each) to plug my two ADC 17" Studio LCD's (one from another G4 I have) into the two DVI's on the new G5. I'll probably get another, cheaper LCD for the other G4.

Now a 30 with two 20's..........

That would be nice 

I've used two monitors for many years.  Running Pro Tools it's very handy to have the mix window on one screen and the edit window on the other screen.  It's so much handier just to look from one to the other  rather than have to use key commands to switch back and forth (though this isn't too hard, either -- it's just a matter of what you're used to, I guess).

I've got the DP867 with the GeForce 4MX in it, connected to two VGA monitors.  One adaptor came with the computer, the other I got at the local Apple Store for less than $30.00.  It's a Dr. Bott VGA Extractor for ADC Video Ports

I couldn't work any other way.

user wrote:

I used to have dual monitors at home because I always had to buy a second video card for my Macs to get 24-bit color support. I would hook up the menubar monitor to the stock video card.

A second monitor would be a good solution for me on my G5. I use a dual setup at work and am used to it (it's one thing that never fails to amaze PC users who visit our shop!).

Am I wrong in thinking I'll need to find another (cheap) video card for my second CRT? I have a 9600 with the dual outputs and a 17" CRT connected through the Apple-supplied adapter.

If you have a G5 with dual video outputs and only have one 17" CRT connected then you definitely DO NOT need another video card for a second monitor.

Frank

frankly wrote:

user wrote:

I used to have dual monitors at home because I always had to buy a second video card for my Macs to get 24-bit color support. I would hook up the menubar monitor to the stock video card.

A second monitor would be a good solution for me on my G5. I use a dual setup at work and am used to it (it's one thing that never fails to amaze PC users who visit our shop!).

Am I wrong in thinking I'll need to find another (cheap) video card for my second CRT? I have a 9600 with the dual outputs and a 17" CRT connected through the Apple-supplied adapter.

If you have a G5 with dual video outputs and only have one 17" CRT connected then you definitely DO NOT need another video card for a second monitor.

Frank

Thanks! I guess, then all I need is one of these, right?

Dr. Bott'sVGA Extractor for ADC Video Ports

Last edited by user (2005-05-10 10:08 am)

has anyone done the eMac screen spanning hack successfully?

thx.

Has anyone put together a PowerMac is dual monitor mode  with two non-Apple LCDs? I'm thinking of getting two 17' SXGA LCDs rather than a single 20' Apple Cinema Display. Any problems using this in Tiger?

I use 2 Nokia 20" CRTs at work on the G5, use an Apple ADC -> VGA and a DVI -> VGA and it  works great.  The GPU does not care what the hell you plug into it, as long as you have a monitor that can handle the signal, be it a projector, LCD, CRT, whatever.

-mark

clb5 wrote:

Has anyone put together a PowerMac is dual monitor mode  with two non-Apple LCDs? I'm thinking of getting two 17' SXGA LCDs rather than a single 20' Apple Cinema Display. Any problems using this in Tiger?

I have 2 Samsung 173p lcds hooked up to my G5. Monitors are plug n play.
I cant live w/out duals.

I'm gonna' heat up the soldering iron and fix my 17.4" Formac ADC display, right now...

then I'll have a 19" DVI LCD, and the ADC LCD for slim, side-by-side daul LCD goodness

I used to have two CRTs, and I must admit, I liked it much better, havin all my palettes on one screen, with my canvas on the other.