dual display
Over the long weekend I purchased a Sony SDM-HS75 external display for my super cool geek setup at home (i.e. I’ll be bringing home the work laptop much more often now).
Since I use a 19″ Sony SDM display at work, I figured the easiest thing to do would be to see if there was a similar Sony model on display at the local electronics retailer. So, this is how I picked up the Sony.
The good things about the monitor…setup was dead simple and since my work laptop already is configured for dual display goodness, I was able to just plug and play.
One unfortunate consequence is that I went through a bit of troubleshooting to figure out why the PowerBook wasn’t able to show an image on the Sony screen. I could see that the monitor was detected and all, but no image…until I found out that PowerBooks can only use external monitors with the lid closed.
No extended OS X desktop for me.
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May 31st, 2005 at 8:29 am
That’s not true - I use my PowerBook with an external monitor for dual-display extended-OS-X-desktop constantly. Even the Apple KnowledgeBase article you linked to doesn’t say anything about closing the lid.
May 31st, 2005 at 1:08 pm
Hah, that’s nothing, check out my super-cool monitor http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0002DJPFQ.16.AA260SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
May 31st, 2005 at 6:10 pm
Newer G4 PBs support this. Time to upgrade!
May 31st, 2005 at 6:29 pm
Yeah, I have a 23″ HD monitor which I run dualhead on my 12″ Powerbook all the damn time.
May 31st, 2005 at 6:48 pm
Folks - she obviously has the “original” G4 PB, which only has 8MB of VRAM. This isn’t enough to support a large external monitor and the LCD with any decent size and/or color depth, so you can’t use both.
You all obviously have newer G4 PBs which do support this.
May 31st, 2005 at 10:33 pm
Yeah, I have a 23″ HD monitor which I run dualhead on my 12″ Powerbook all the damn time.
(Fluffy wins!)
June 2nd, 2005 at 9:10 pm
You are even hotter with two monitors.
June 2nd, 2005 at 9:12 pm
ahhh cmon …. let me post a comment
June 24th, 2005 at 2:00 pm
Tell me please what is vertical scanning frequency on your SDM-HS75.
Thank you
I had problems with 75Hz frequency after week of working… and switch it to 60 Hz