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FaultyGluestick
Jul 11, 2006, 03:15 AM
Hi, I'm very close to purchasing a Powermac G5, but to really save money I was wondering if I can keep my current monitor, a 19 inch Dell lcd? Or do I need to buy some sort of adapter? Or do I have to buy the pricey apple display? :confused: Please help.


livingfortoday
Jul 11, 2006, 03:41 AM
All you have to do is check and see what kind of connector the video card in the G5 has, and what your LCD uses. Should be DVI in both cases, so you should be fine. If it's an older LCD, it may be VGA.
FaultyGluestick
Jul 11, 2006, 10:02 PM
Alright thanks!
GimmeSlack12
Jul 12, 2006, 04:10 AM
Yes.

Believe it or not, Macs are just PC's on the component scale. So pretty much any monitor can be used.
davegoody
Jul 12, 2006, 06:51 AM
Yes.

Believe it or not, Macs are just PC's on the component scale. So pretty much any monitor can be used.

Newer (Intel Based) Macs are very similar to PCs at the component level, the architecture of the machine that the original poster stated (G5 PowerMac) is NOT the same.

HOWEVER . . . . As far as monitors are concerned, No issues at all, I use a 20" DELL monitor (two actually) and they work fine via DVI - though they would probably work OK from the analogue VGA inputs too - not as nice quality though !