Multi-screen with a powerbook G4 ? need an external graphic card or ...?
hi
im on powerbook G4 of 2003.
want to have either a very large display screen(28 or even 30 fts)or maybe two or three external screens ...dunno yet , depends of your answers ...
is a 1920x1200 resolution like the 28 fts viewsonic screen will overload my internal graphic card ? if not ? can i try an 30 fts even if i will not use the native 2500x ... resolution of course ..
if yes ,any of you guys know an external graphic card , powerfull enough to support 2 external screens ? any recommandations ?
ty all for your help
Assuming your PB is the original 2003-vintage with a 1.0G video processor and 64MB of video memory, the Apple spec sheet shows this:
===========
Video and graphics support
--NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go graphics processor
with AGP 4X support and 64MB of DDR SDRAM
video memory for 2D/3D graphics acceleration
--Dual display and video mirroring: Simultaneously
supports up to 1440 by 900 pixels on the built-in
display and up to 2048 by 1536 pixels on an
external display, both at millions of colors5
--DVI output port
===========
Yours may have an ATI video chipset; run System Profiler from your Utilities folder to find your exact video processor details.
Beyond that, you may need to contact ViewSonic to see if there are any "gotchas" that would prevent one of their monitors from working on a 1G machine.
This Cardbus adaptor:
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Viewsonic/VTBOOK/
Gives you another display port with 32MB VRAM.
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