Extra Monitor

Probably a simple question: I use my iMac as my main source for watching movies (DVD's, Hulu.com, streaming netflix movies (using boot camp and XP),..etc...etc)
I have a 20" iMac, and, I would like a bigger display to make my movie watching experience better.
I have my eye on this:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=39719 33&CatId=3774
Will this do what I need and still look as good as my iMac display?
I have little time to order this. I'm afraid the deal will be over at tiger Direct by the time I am ready to order it, so, any help as soon as possible would be great
I just dont want to order it to find out it doesent look that great with my iMac.

The tech specs for that display says 1920x1200 native resolution and it uses a DVI connector. So it should work. The iMac can go up to 1920x1200 resolution (for digital) on the external display. You'll need one of these to connect the mini-DVI port (on the iMac) to standard DVI cable.
http://store.apple.com/us/product/M9321G/B?mco=MTIxODk3Mw

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(please also email me too [email protected]

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Adding a extra Monitor

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PSURob,
Welcome to the HP Forum.
I am not an owner of this system type -- I must assume it will in some way support a USB monitor.
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[SOLVED] Connecting extra Monitor, laptop screen goes black.

Whenever i connect a additional monitor through HDMI (my only output), the laptop screen goes black. If i do FN + external_monitor switch, then the laptop screen turns on but the external monitor turns off.
If you move the mouse you can feel that the desktop has been extended as i wanted, it is just that one of the screens keeps going black. The gnome display settings show both screens as active, the menu is so minimalistic that there is not much to do.
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[cristobal@orion ~]$ uname -a
Linux orion 3.11.4-1-razer #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Oct 8 12:31:50 CLST 2013 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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[cristobal@orion ~]$ pacman -Q nvidia-dkms bumblebee bbswitch-dkms nvidia-utils gnome-desktop
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nvidia-utils 325.15-1
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Any ideas?
Last edited by labotsirc (2013-10-15 18:33:18)

The problem is now fixed,
For some weird reason, this time the gnome settings did work. Must have been some sort of rare bug that now i cannot reproduce.
Last edited by labotsirc (2013-10-15 18:32:53)

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Hi Roy, I'm not sure if Hossein actually read that KB or not, but it deals with displaying the front panel over the network on a Windows machine, not out through the monitor connection on the EVS running LabVIEW RT.
To answer your original question, no, it is not possible to view the standard LabVIEW front panel on the RT system today. All the code for displaying all the front panel UI buttons, controls, and indicators is simply not present in LabVIEW Real-Time and is only viewable on a seperate machine that is either running the development environment or using a web browser that has the LabVIEW plugin installed.
Having a UI display on RT is certainly a requested feature and perhaps it might be available some day. You might want to check this request: http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Real-Time-Idea-Exchange/Real-time-display/idi-p/1391108 . It has some good ideas for what other alternatives exist today as well.
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