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External Monitor and Macbook Pro

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Josheua

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Nov 2, 2007
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Hey All,

I just recently got my macbook pro and love it. However, I am having a tiny issue. I have a 22-inch Westinghouse monitor that I want to hook up my computer to and output the screen at 1680x1050. However, I do not want to do it as a dual set up, I want to run it as if my laptop were a desktop and only use the external monitor. However, when I set it to mirror monitor mode in displays, it pumps the image out at 1440x900 (despite setting it at 1680x1050). Mind you, the laptop display and the main display are both active in this set up so I can see how this would be a problem. I want to know, is there a way to shut off the monitor on the laptop and pump out the image just to the display and set the system to it's native resolution?

I hope this makes sense.

-Josh :apple:
 
Hi,

If you close your MBP lid, so it goes to sleep, then wake it up with an external mouse or keyboard, the internal screen will be disabled, and your external will be the only active display.
You can then set the display to it's optimum resolution and have fun and games, using the MBP as a desktop! ;)
 
PCRanger said:
Hi,

If you close your MBP lid, so it goes to sleep, then wake it up with an external mouse or keyboard, the internal screen will be disabled, and your external will be the only active display.
You can then set the display to it's optimum resolution and have fun and games, using the MBP as a desktop! ;)
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Correct, if you wake the MBP up with the lid closed (using an external input device), and you have an external monitor plugged in, the screen of the MBP will be disabled, leaving you to calibrate your external.

If you have bluetooth based keyboard/mouse, make sure that your MBP is set to wake up using them.
 
How do you set it up to wake up using a bluetooth keyboard and/or mouse?

-Josh :apple:

NEVERMIND ALL GOT IT WORKING. THANKS FOR YOUR HELP
 
PCRanger said:
Hi,

If you close your MBP lid, so it goes to sleep, then wake it up with an external mouse or keyboard, the internal screen will be disabled, and your external will be the only active display.
You can then set the display to it's optimum resolution and have fun and games, using the MBP as a desktop! ;)
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Why this tips doesn't work for me? I was connect my external monitor and usb keyboard and try to close the MBP and the MBP go to sleep, after that I try to click my mouse or by pressing any key on my keyboard but, nothing happen :(

Please what's going on? and how to do this?
 
Hey!

I'd like to do the same: using the MBP as a desktop, therefore closed lid.

my worry: does the mbp get enough "fresh-air", or might it get too hot?

thanks for you help
love
michael
 
I was wondering - on the Apple Cinema Displays, does the power button on them wake up/start up the computer it's connected to (ie. MBP), like the old Apple Studio Displays used to?

If not, and I also have an Apple Keyboards/mouse plugged into my MBP when it's asleep/shut down, how do I wake up the MBP from these?
 
MarkW19 said:
I was wondering - on the Apple Cinema Displays, does the power button on them wake up/start up the computer it's connected to (ie. MBP), like the old Apple Studio Displays used to?

If not, and I also have an Apple Keyboards/mouse plugged into my MBP when it's asleep/shut down, how do I wake up the MBP from these?
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Just press a button on the keyboard and you're good to go.
 
Sleep problems

On my MBP I have problems with it waking from sleep if I just use the external display (lid closed). This is so unreliable for me I have changed to using dual display mode, lid open.
 
If I had a Macbook/Macbook Pro with a broken screen is there a way I could rip the screen off and make it think its closed? Somehow do that and use the original trackpad and keyboard with the external monitor?
 
Supreme User said:
If I had a Macbook/Macbook Pro with a broken screen is there a way I could rip the screen on and make it think its closed? Somehow do that and use the original trackpad and keyboard?
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I think there is sensor of somesort a the tip of the screen. Do you have the screen still attached? It would be easier to get a cheap external keyboard/mouse.
 
iShater said:
I think there is sensor of somesort a the tip of the screen. Do you have the screen still attached? It would be easier to get a cheap external keyboard/mouse.
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The sensor is in the base of the MacBook pro with it's circuitry based around the little latch button.
 
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