T400 dual monitor question

I have a ThinkPad T400 with two "Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family" display adapters listed in the Device Manager. I was wondering if it was possible to connect two external 1600 x 900 monitors to this laptop via an Advanced Mini Dock (obviously turning off the laptop screen) or whether I needed a different chipset to support this? Thanks!

yes you can but i am not sure whether this resolution is supported.
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I use a Intel MacPro running Tiger with latest updates in my church. We use the Mac and Keynote 2.0.2 to present PowerPoint slides on the big screen (dual outputs). Everything was going well until the pastors upgraded to new computers running Vista and Office 2007. Now neither pastor's files will load into Keynote. It comes up with an error. The pastors have saved their files from PP as 2003 PPT files, and they still will not open. Error - unable to open file type. The one pastor went back to XP (dumped Vista) but still used the Office 2007 program and saved as PP2003, but the error still appears.
FYI - I noticed that Office 2007 saves with a file with the extension of .pptx instead of the .ppt. Checking the file they gave me shows that it is indead a .ppt file and not .pptx file. It makes no difference.
I believe it is an Office 2007 problem I'm dealing with. I have taken the .ppt file and loaded it onto the PC running PP 2003 and it loads fine, except for some format problems. I then resave it with a different name and tried to load that file (hoping it was converted) , with the same error showing. The problem is transfered with the file. Other files created with the PP 2003 program load fine into Keynote, so it has to be the Office2007 doing something.
So the questions are, is there an easy fix and still use the Keynote program, OR does Keynote 3 take care of this problem in the upgrade, OR should I install Win XP home or Pro and use parallels (which I have)? Would WinXP Home be enough to support the dual outputs and be fast enough? I am familiar with XP Pro not Home.
Any information you may have, could be a help. I need this resolved soon. I hate having to bring in the old Windows PC, after enjoying the quality of the Mac.

David.Austin.Allen wrote:
You should not have issues attaching two displays to the Mac mini. You will not be able to use an iPad as one of those displays.
I have no issues streaming video on demand from all of the media sources which you have listed. My Mac mini is the Early '09, so my hardware is not as powerful as the newest Mac mini.
Dah•veed
Thanks David - glad to here the Mini supports dual monitors, and you're not having any streaming issues. Did you have any special settings, like "no hardware acceleration"? Are you streaming HD content?
If it supports dual monitors, then I would think the iPad could be used as a second display and input device - the demos I've seen with Air Display (from Avatron Software") would accomplish what I'm looking for. Here is a demo at http://www.vimeo.com/16950420 showing the iPad working with a Windows machine, but I've seen them working with Macs as well.
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T400 Dual Monitor Recommendation

Hi all,
I want to use dual monitor with additional LCD monitor.
But I do not know much about dual monitor resolution setting.
Can I ask if this monitor works well with T400 as an additional extension display?

There have been problems with 1600x900 monitors on Thinkpads - supposedly a BIOS fix in the works.
I would go after a more standard 16x10 ratio. Also, will you be using the VGA port, or DVI from a base station?
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PSE8 & Dual Monitor Question

I just connected an external display to my MacBook Pro & have a couple of very remedial questions.
I have the displays set up in the "extended desktop" mode. But when I open an image in ACR, I cannot drag the ACR window to my external display. Can you please help me here?
Also, for those of you using dual displays, I assume a desirable way to set up the 2 screens is to keep the PSE tools on one screen & the image to be edited in the other. I'm curious about how you set up your workspace.
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Well, you're using dual monitors the way I've always heard it was to be done.
First unless the monitors are identical, it does seem like quite a logistics issue to have both screens color balanced and calibrated. So, obviously keep the image on the one that "prints best".
For the sake of disucssion, if both displays were very close to identical, I suppose you could use the "clone display" mode as a constant before and after.
My own slightly eccentric self would like to have one monitor vertical, and the other horizontal. This would present both horizontal and vertical images full frame simultaneously. As it stands now, I can get this, but I need two computers to do it.
I seem to be in a minority, as none of the current graphics drivers permit this, without one of the images being sideways that is. Is this too eccentric?

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I have an X60 docked on an X6 Ultrabase...I'd like to run a couple of HP 1740 TFT monitors off the laptop (without the integrated screen operational) in the usual FN + F7 fashion.
I thought I might be able to use one of these to split the output and run up both monitors in parallel ? Will this work and detect the dual monitor real estate or do i have no choice but to go with one of these
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Dual monitoring question...

Hi,
I would appreciate any help i can get in regards to setting up a dual monitoring system on my power mac g4. I have the mirror door version which i believe has a ATI Radeon 9000 Pro graphics card (i may be wrong as i don't know much about this side of my computer) and it has two connections, DVI and VGA... I am currently using the DVI connection to run an original 17" apple cinema display off of DVI.
I am wanting to connect another one of these monitors and am wondering the cheapest way of doing this. Can i get a VGA to DVI convertor similar to DVI to VGA? or is there a PCI option?
Thanks.

First, check exactly what graphics card you have by running the system profiler. If you're not familiar with this, click on the Apple menu item at top left and select "About this Mac" Then click on "More info" to run the system profiler. Once that is up select "Graphics/Displays" to check which card you have. Anyone advising needs to know exactly which card you've got, guesswork might lead to suggestions that don't work.
You can simply plug another display into some cards that have multiple outputs, but some will only drive one display at a time. If you have in fact got a Radeon 9000 then you're in luck. You have an ADC connector and a DVI, and you can run a second display from the ADC connector by using an ADC to DVI-converter and a monitor with a DVI input. You could also use any old Apple monitors that take ADC connections with a suitable cable, but modern displays would be a lot better.
There used to be plenty of Mac PCI cards around and any of those would work in your G4, but the problem nowadays would be finding one. I got one on eBay for my G4 and it works a treat driving a second display, but that card is no longer easy to find and wasn't the best choice anyway. Your Radeon 9000 (if that's what you have) is a much better card.

T400 dual monitors to standard display switch?

Hello...
I have a T400 I bought in August 2009 running Windows XP. When I am home, I use my T400 in conjunction with a second dual display that acts as an extended desktop. I also like to take the laptop with me. The problem is that every time I return home to connect my external screen, I have to go through this whole process in Catalyst Control Center to configure the extended display, along with its respective resolution, which monitor is primary and secondary, etc. On another laptop, this process happens automatically, detecting the monitor correctly. If this can't be done automatically, could someone please walk me through how to set this up so it can be seamless? It seems like this should be very easy but I can't figure it out for the life of me!
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As far as completely automatic, you may or may not be able to have a reliable experience. BUT the good news is that the Thinkpad Presentation Director utility can make this a "one click" choice rather than completely reconfiguring your displays every time you reconnect. The utility should already be installed on your machine, most likely in the Thinkvantage section. If it is not, just go to the Lenovo site and in the support section for your machine you can download it. Once installed just run through its wizard to set your displays for the way you want them (resolution, primary, extended etc) and it will have you give that a name- from then on when you connect at home you just click on the icon in the taskbar, select that named profile and you are done. Really works quite well and is pretty painless.

T420 dual monitors question?

I have a T420 (Intel Graphics Intergrated) and two Dell U2413 monitors. Can someone tell me if it's possible to connect two displays to the laptop through display port. I only want to run the monitors in dual mode, I'm not worried about using the laptop LCD. Also is there a guide on what cables I need two use? I've tried rigging everything up (I'm not using a dock) but I can't seem to get things working properly?

Not like the later 27" models, because the 2008 iMac's Mini-DVI output port does not support input.
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I just got a 30" monitor and had already been using a 23" monitor. I'm just wondering if there is any way that I can have the dock and the menu bar along the top display on both monitors? I'm guessing not, but it would be great if it is possible. Thanks in advance.
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I always do something like what you propose. Even if it is only from 10.5.7 to 10.5.8.
And format a new drive fully (zero) with new OS (SL) and clone my stuff over (SuperDuper) and run latest SL-compatible Disk Warrior (4.2, or use DG2, TTPro 5.x if they are ready).
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I have a G4 Mac with 2 monitor connections on the back (1.25mhz). I have one monitor, Samsung, 24" plugged into the DVI plug. I have my 'old' but still good 15" Samsung that I was thinking of hooking up. If I get an ADC adapter for the 15", will it work even though it's not an Apple Display? Secondly, how much will my computer slow down with 2 monitors hooked up? Significantly? Very little? Somewhere in the middle? It has 2G RAM. Will any ADC adapter work or is there one brand that is better than another? I just started looking at them and they are much more expensive than I thought! Thanks for any tips, Judy

To connect a DVI display to the ADC port on the computer you need the ADC to DVI adapter, which is just a connector adapter, such as:
<http://www.gefen.com/kvm/product.jsp?prod_id=1198>
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<http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/wa/RSLID?mco=18 72D402&nplm=M8661LL/B> You do NOT want one of these.

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I've been using my geforce FX5200 nvidia card single monitor, just a CRT plugged into the VGA port. I had two CRTs and used a VGA->DVI adapter to attempt to get the second monitor to show (the card has a DVI and a VGA). I was never able to get the second screen to work that way, I don't know if the adapter was bad or the wrong one, but nonetheless it didn't work. I finally got a "DVI monitor." What's the easiest way to get this second monitor to work?

They should both be picked up on the nvidia-settings tool?
In theory yes, but in practice there was a problem (or possibly a "feature") on some nvidia cards (or maybe a limitation in the driver) which I also experienced on FX5500 where you couldn't use certain pipes in combination. For example using VGA+TV-Out was not possible so you would have to get a vga-to-dvi adapter and use DVI+TV-Out, which was possible. Since your first try with two CRT monitors failed it might be that your can't use VGA+DVI in combination.
Edit: unfortunately it was so long ago that I don't have any resources on this. But a quick search now brought me to another example of this
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Dual Monitor Setup S5-1070t

I am trying to connect a second monitor to my HP S5-1070t desktop It has an AMD Radeon HD 6450 graphics card installed which was ordered with the computer. This card has a DVI and an HDMI port on it. My main monitor is an HP 2011x connected to the DVI port on the card. I am attempting to connect a Compaq Q1859 monitor to the HDMI port using an HDMI to VGA adapter. I updated the AMD Calalyst Control Center to Version 2013.0328.2218.38225. When I run Detect Displays it only shows my HP2011x display.
I scanned through the previous dual monitor questions but I didn't find anything related to my problem.
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Here are the original specs and configurable options for your HP Pavilion Slimline s5-1070t CTO Desktop Computer. Here are the specs for your HP Pavilion 2011x WLED backlit monitor and your Compaq Q1859 Widescreen LCD monitor. According to the specs, the 2011x monitor supports both DVI-D and VGA video input connectors, while the Q1859 only supports a VGA video input connector.
You stated the s5-1070t with HD 6450 graphics card supports both HDMI and DVI video outputs but you didn't indicate which type of DVI it is. DVI comes in DVI-I (both analog and digital), DVI-A (analog only), and DVI-D (digital only). Please review this Wikipedia DVI article to determine which type is on your card or post a photo of the ports on the card.
You also indicate you are using a HDMI-to-VGA adapter. There is no way way to "adapt" a digital HDMI signal into an analog VGA signal short of using an expensive digital-to-analog converter. These converters normallly run in the hundreds of dollars and don't always produce good results. Until the monitors are correctly connected without this "so-called" adapter, the computer is only going acknowledge one monitor.
If, and only if, the Radeon HD 6450 supports HDMI and DVI-I, you can connect both monitors as follows and both monitors will work;
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Dual monitor, and other questions....

I'm sorry for these questions if they've already been discussed... with all the back lash, I'm having a hard time wading through all the comments.
I have a macbookpro.
I use an external 24" monitor along with my 15" laptop for editing. My 15" is used for my canvas.
1: Can I use this set up with the new FCP X?
I use PPro CS5 currently and I like the way it handles media and saving my projects.
2: How does FCP X handle media?
2.a: Does it handle media like iPhoto / Aperture?
2.b: Are projects saved like in iMovie?
I keep all my media on external hard drives.
3: Will this be a problem with FCP X?
Thank you in advance for your help.
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On my dual monitor Mac pro, the main monitor has the timeline and canvas. The second monitor has the events I think, basically the bin. You'd probably want to make your 24 the main monitor
FCP X handles media and projects a lot like iMovie. iTunes and iPhoto are accessed just like iMovie. You can save media to whatever drive you want although you can't really drill down to a particular location
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Question about dual-monitor setup - advanced dock + PCIe card

I just got a Z60t at work. I had been using a dual monitor setup, but it doesn't look like my current config is going to fly w/ the new machine. Anyway, here's what I've got:
Primary monitor: Acer AL2416W (1920x1200 DVI)
Secondary monitor: Dell 1901FP (1280x1024 VGA)
I've read that the advanced dock might be able to let me use this setup with the Z60t if i put a PCIe video card in it. So here are my questions:
1. Will the advanced dock + PCIe video card allow me to run the two monitors listed above (I don't use the laptop screen at all)?
2. Which PCIe cards are compatible with the advanced dock?
3. Can I achieve the same resolutions with the advanced dock + PCIe card?
4. Will I need to split the VGA output, or can i use VGA + DVI like I do now (since the Z60t has no native DVI support)?
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Gary -- don't turn on the OS Display Mirroring. Turn it off.
You want Aperture to control how it uses your dual monitors. (You do not want the OS to determine it.)
Once you've turned off the OS "Display Mirroring", the set-up I specified above should give you what you want.
That set-up is:
"View → Main Viewer → {anything}", and
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I can't seem to figure out a few things regarding running dual monitors. Run windows XP, have the latest bridge/cs 3 updates. Sometimes everything works fine, other times it doesn't.
I like having my preview pane on monitor #1, directly in front of me. I also like opening the selected photo in RAW from monitor #1 and having the RAW window come up on monitor #1.
Most often the RAW window will open up on Monitor #2, which I do not want to happen. On Monitor #2, I have my content pane and my metadata & folders showing.
I've reversed 1:2 and 2:2 and can't get it to work right either. Could someone provide some guidance? Been searching options and can't figure it out.
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I discovered that with dual monitors if the window is maximized it has no preview image (default workspace), just a green pane. If you use the double headed arrow and pull back the dividing line between thumb/preview pane or preview/metadata pane it revels dozens of "copies" of underneath. The preview will only show up when the thumb window pane is moved quite a ways to the left. It is almost like the real workspace is on the bottom and the others are on top.
The solution I have found is to click RESTORE DOWN (middle window icon) and then everything works correctly, even if I enlarge the window to full monitor. If I maximize it reverts again. Am using Vista and 2 monitors. Can work with this now that I know what to do, but a little puzzling. For anyone not seeing a preview image, or metadata, might be worth while to see if maximize window mode is the problem.
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