[Psilocybe pleurocystidiosa Guzmán]

I have a computer (see sig.) with an Apple studio display.

For my Company's upcoming trade-show booth we want to run a flat-panel (Cinema display, hopefully) attached to a computer, running a presentation (powerpoint, or something in a browser.)

I am toying with the idea of buying a Ti-book to run the presentation and I have heard the the Ti-books suppport dual monitor useage (like, having a screen of tools and palettes and another screen of workspace.)

1. Is this true?
2. Can I close the Ti-book and just use the external monitor?

I am also wondering if it would be possible - when this is all said and done - to bring that flat-panel monitor back to the office and use it with my studio display off my G4 in a dual monitor mode. I'm no genius but I can tell by looking at the back of my computer, at the video card, and tell that it won't run more than one monitor at a time.

1. Is there a video card that will suppport this?
2. Can I just add another - maybe identical - video card and use them in parallel?


Thanks in advance for any help...

[Wattsy]

You can forget running the Cinema Display off the TiPB. Currently the only theoretical way to do so is via a PCI card expansion box (connected via the PC Card slot), a PCI video card with DVI output, and the DVIator adaptor from Dr Bott. Extremely clumsy solution which may not even actually work. There is a PC Card video card available (from Margi?) with DVI output but for some reason it doesn't work with the TiPB.
You will have no problem running the Cinema Display with your office G4 provided you buy the above mentioned DVIator adaptor from Dr Bott. Just connect the DVIator to the DVI output of your Radeon, the Cinema Display to the DVIator, and you are up and running.

[ 08-08-2001: Message edited by: Wattsy ]

[Psilocybe pleurocystidiosa Guzmán]

Originally posted by Wattsy:
<STRONG>You can forget running the Cinema Display off the TiPB. Currently the only *theoretical* way to do so is via a PCI card expansion box (connected via the PC Card slot), a PCI video card with DVI output, and the DVIator convertor from Dr. Botts. Extremely clumsy solution which may not even work. There is a PC card video card available (from Margi?) with DVI output but for some reason it doesn't work with the TiPB.
You will have no problem running the Cinema Display with your office G4 provided you buy the above mentioned DViator adaptor from Dr. Botts. Just connect the DViator to the DVI output of your Radeon, the Cinema Display to the DVIator, and you are up and running.</STRONG>

Woa!

First, thanks a lot.

I was in a CompUSA (very lame chain of American computer stores) this afternoon returning a broken cable and I wondered over to the Apple section. I asked a salesperson if I could run the cinema display off the Ti-book and he said yes. If this is indeed incorrect I am not all surprised, though at the same time it is a little shocking.....

Second, one thing I still need clarification on... if I hook up the Cinema display via DVIator to the Radeon, will I have real dual-monitors where the mouse can leave one and appear on the other?

Sorry to be so dense, its just that I have never done this before...

[Wattsy]

The CompUSA salesperson is wrong. The TiPB has an ordinary analogue VGA port on the back. You cannot connect the Cinema Display (or any of the other Apple LCD displays) to it.
For dual monitor capability as you describe you will need to have 2 video cards or a dual head card. My advice would be to keep the Radeon (nice card) and get a second PCI video card. It doesn't need to be the same make or model of card but the tidiest solution would be to get another Radeon (PCI variety).

[Wattsy]

Actually I haven't been engaging my brain about the office G4. If the Radeon in it was a BTO option when it was bought it should already have an ADC port on it. The Cinema Display will plug straight into it with no need for the DVIator. However, if the Radeon was a retail card bought later on it will most likely have a DVI port and will require the Dr Bott thingy.