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MBP vs. external monitor
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OMG....what a difference. I realize it didn't show up in the screenies but the difference is night and day. I can't thank you enough!
looks like it. I just assumed he wasn't when he was certain he was running his display @ 1680x1050.
props for the good eye.
If you have the monitors set up as 2 different displays (meaning not mirrored) then the displays are able to run independently. With that being said, it seems like I read somewhere that Apple displays have somewhere around a 110 dpi, where as monitors found on normal laptops and external monitors were around 96 dpi. This would cause the fuzziness that you are talking about also. A great way to tell this is drag something like a text document from the laptop display onto the external monitor. If the window is 6 inches long, it would be longer on the external, due to a lower dpi, even though the external monitor might have a higher resolution, the dots that make that resolution are not as close together. Hope this explains things well enough.
One interesting thing.....in "clamshell mode," I can't hear the speakers on the MBP very well. Time to invest in some decent speakers. LOL
EDIT: Actually I can hear stuff from the speakers pretty well but it's still time to invest in some speakers.
EDIT: Actually I can hear stuff from the speakers pretty well but it's still time to invest in some speakers.
I can't thank you guys enough. I work on my computer the better part of the day and this makes a *huge* difference..
Odd.. I have just the opposite problem was what is reported here. I have been and am still using a 30" Dell LCD that has a very wide color gamut. The MBP colors look washed out and under saturated in comparison. I've calibrated both so I assume its just that the 30" is more capable. I had the same thought when looking at the MBPs in the store... just not very contrasty.