I have a 24" dell external monitor that I use with my 17" MBP. My wife would like to hook up her 12" ibook to the 24" monitor. Is this possible, and what cables would I need?
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12" ibook & external monitor
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1. Mini-VGA to VGA adapter.
2. Screen Spanning Hack
It'll be a little sluggish with the external. Which 12" iBook as well?
2. Screen Spanning Hack
It'll be a little sluggish with the external. Which 12" iBook as well?
I've done the exact thing once, my 1.2GHz iBook G4 hooked up to a 24" Dell display with a mini VGA adapter and Screen Spanning Doctor installed.
It worked but there were many issues - it was very VERY sluggish if you were doing anything that involved moving objects around the screen and I couldn't go all the way to 1920x1200, it stopped me at 1920x1080 which was fine but there's always the slightly blurry look when you're running an LCD at a res lower than native.
Oh, and if you do do it, don't enable Clamshell mode - you'll fry your iBook.
It worked but there were many issues - it was very VERY sluggish if you were doing anything that involved moving objects around the screen and I couldn't go all the way to 1920x1200, it stopped me at 1920x1080 which was fine but there's always the slightly blurry look when you're running an LCD at a res lower than native.
Oh, and if you do do it, don't enable Clamshell mode - you'll fry your iBook.