Connect to separate large monitor possibility

I have the PowerBook G4. Is it possible for me to connect to a separate lrg flat screen monitor? If so what do I need for the connection, and does it have to be an apple monitor, or any suggestions of the best ones to look at. Or do I have to just save and buy the I-Mac.

Your Powerbook can drive an external monitor, and it doesn't have to be an Apple monitor. The maximum resolution supported on the external monitor depends on which Powerbook model you have, but all 17" models can support at least 2048 x 1536. The physical dimensions of the screen don't matter; it's the resolution that does. Whatever monitor you use, you will want to run it at its native (maximum) resolution, so that shouldn't exceed 2048 x 1536 pixels unless your Powerbook has a 1.67GHz processor (in which case it supports up to 2560 x 1600.

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when playing out. Also I am having a time figuring out how I am going to safely keep the monitor on somekind of music stand without falling!!! Can anyone help me with this?

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As you can see in my profile section, my MBP is older by 5 years, 2GB RAM and with regards to question 1 (Q1), has no problems with having all those programs open at the same time with the possible exception of Photoshop since I use Gimp instead. With twice the RAM and much overall much better specs, Photoshop shouldn't be an issue. But you listed some other activities that might need that additional RAM. But the advise most give is to not get it from Apple but from a third party.
Q5 - I always get Apple Care. Only had to use it once but it paid for itself that one time.
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The Apple Support Communities are an international user to user technical support forum. As a man from Mexico, Spanish is my native tongue. I do not speak English very well, however, I do write in English with the aid of the Mac OS X spelling and grammar checks. I also live in a culture perhaps very very different from your own. When offering advice in the ASC, my comments are not meant to be anything more than helpful and certainly not to be taken as insults.
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http://www.macworld.com/article/1156288/imac_second_monitor.html

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Hello
I have built a very straight forward web site to show around
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I know this isn't strictly a DW question but I don't know
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> Should I have the option for people to view the site on
a large monitor?
I don't think so. The larger the monitor/resolution, the
higher the
likelihood that the user has a sub-maximized viewport width.
Why make extra
work for yourself?
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> Hello
>
> I have built a very straight forward web site to show
around 200 images
> for an
> artist. The site is a very simple HTML/CSS and my
question is about
> whether I
> should offer an option for viewers to view on larger
monitors?
>
> Because the design/content is so minimal, on a very
large monitor (I Don't
> have one), I imagine the page content could look sparse.
I obviously want
> the
> site to be appropriate for as wide an audience as
possible and want the
> images
> to be large enough to get a good look at them without
bursting off the
> screen.
>
> However, apart from wide appeal, a significant target
audience say,
> galleries
> and other image makers, will probably have high-end kit
for their browsing
> and
> probably, have huge monitors. so my question is:
>
> Should I have the option for people to view the site on
a large monitor?
>
> If it's a good idea, I imagine that I could just
duplicate the site and
> upsize
> all the images. And then change my CSS to make the text
etc a bit bigger.
> I
> don't imagine a style-switcher is the way to go because
that would not
> deal
> with the image sizes.
>
> I would really welcome any advice.
>
> Thanks
>
> Martin
>
> I know this isn't strictly a DW question but I don't
know where else to go
> with it?
>

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