[eddiecatflap]

i have an apple 20" multiscan from c. 10 years ago and it seems to be working ok , it cost me a lot when i bought it and i'm loathe to just throw it in a skip etc

any chance it would work with a powermac g5 ?

its got a db-15 video out , how do you go about connecting it and will it slow down the video from the g5 ??

[D'Espice]

I'm not sure about the G5, but doesn't it have some kind of ADB->VGA adapter included? As for your other question, it won't slow down anything - why should it? It's just a monitor.

[eddiecatflap]

i just thought the inerface connection would slow it down

from agp to db-15?

maybe im making a deal out of nothing

[tooki]

Using the DVI->VGA adapter that came with the G5, and then adding an HD15->DB15 adapter (like the ones that came with the PowerBook G3 models and blue and white G3's), it should work just fine.

There would be no "slowdown" -- monitors just don't work like that. Only resolution and color depth make any difference. The old one will cause identical system performance to a modern monitor at the same resolution. (Mac OS X should always be run at 24-bit, so that's a non-issue as well.)

tooki