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• Two heads are better than one? (Score:2)

  by nicholas (3034) <nwc10+useperl@colon.colondot.net> on 2006.05.16 12:00 (#47713) Homepage Journal

  second display at higher resolution

  So it will properly run dual headed? That's better than the iBook, and one of the two reasons that put me off buying one. (The other being that 1024 isn't really wide enough to have two terminals side by side the way I like them.)

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  • Re:Two heads are better than one? (Score:1)

    by rjbs (4671)

    Exactly right, and one of the reasons I "needed" a PowerBook. Of course, when I got my PowerBook, the iBook was still a G3, and by the end of the PowerBook G4's life, there were a number of ways to hack the iBook to do real dual headed-ness, although they ate up your RAM.
    
    I love my little 12" display, but I can't do all my work on it all the time. I also love my 20" display.

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    rjbs
    • Re:Two heads are better than one? (Score:2)

      by Matts (1087)

      There's a firmware hack you can do to make the 12" iBooks work with an external display (extended, not mirrored). Works perfectly.
      • Re:Two heads are better than one? (Score:1)

        by rjbs (4671)

        Right, but my understanding was that this would use your system RAM for the video, rather than only dedicated video ram... am I mistaken?

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        rjbs
        • Re:Two heads are better than one? (Score:2)

          by Matts (1087)

          Not sure. But it's only 16MB at most. Who doesn't have that to spare these days?