Silly Question regarding extended desktop

I have just ordered a new 24" iMac however, the tech specs for the UK note:
+Support for external display in video mirroring mode+
Where as the US tech specs note:
+Support for extended desktop and video mirroring modes+
Which is correct? Does anyone from the UK have their aluminum iMac running in extended desktop mode?
I am upgrading from a white 20" and I have a second monitor as an extended display. I just want to make sure I do not lose this functionality.

All Intel iMac's will do extended desktop mode (by default) when you connect a second display. The next bullet says
"Simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in display, and up to a 30-inch display (2560 by 1600 pixels) on an external display"
so that basically says it will extend the desktop, since it would not support "full native resolution" up to 2560x1600, if it was simply mirroring the built-in 1920x1200 display.
The new iMacs have a Mini DisplayPort (instead of a mini-DVI port), so you will need a new adapter.

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Here is my script for copying folders from one Mac to another Mac via Ethernet:
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cop2drop("Macintosh HD:Users:home:Desktop", "zome's Public Folder:Drop Box:")
cop2drop("Macintosh HD:Users:home:Documents", "zome's Public Folder:Drop Box:")
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Hello
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1) I think you may still use System Events 'duplicate' command if you wish.
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The ditto(1) and cp(1) behave differently for the same arguments, i.e., ditto /a/b/c /d/e/f will copy the contents of the source directory into the destination directory.
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set dst to (destFolder as alias)'s POSIX Path's text 1 thru -2
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set dst to (destFolder as alias)'s POSIX Path's text 1 thru -2
set sh to "src=" & quoted form of src & ";dst=" & quoted form of dst & ¬
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Good luck,
H
Message was edited by: Hiroto (fixed typo)

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Why do I get "product level is insufficient..." error when I run my SSIS package?
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Thanks Shiven:) If Answer is Helpful, Please Vote

Hi S Kumar Dubey,
In SSIS, the Excel Source and Excel Destination natively use the Microsoft Jet 4.0 OLE DB Provider which is installed by SQL Server. The Microsoft Jet 4.0 OLE DB Provider deals with .xls files created by Excel 97-2003. To deal with .xlsx files created by
Excel 2007, we need the Microsoft ACE OLEDB Provider. SQL Server doesn’t install the Microsoft ACE OLEDB Provider, to get it we can install the
2007 Office System Driver: Data Connectivity Components or
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The drivers listed in the ODBC Data Source Administrator are ODBC drivers not OLEDB drivers, therefore, the Excel Source/Destination in SSIS won’t use the ODBC driver for Excel listed in it by default. On a 64-bit Windows platform, there are two versions
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By default, there are multiple 32-bit ODBC drivers and fewer 64-bit ODBC drivers installed on a 64-bit platform. To get more ODBC drivers, we can install the 2007 Office System Driver: Data Connectivity Components or Microsoft Access Database Engine 2010 Redistributable.
Besides, please note that 2007 Office System Driver: Data Connectivity Components only install 32-bit ODBC and OLEDB drivers because it only has 32-bit version, but the Microsoft Access Database Engine 2010 Redistributable has both 32- bit version and 64-bit
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