[trublue]

Is the new g4 ibook capable of monitor spanning? I somewhere have read some posts that suggest that it is not! What?

I have a friend who is interested buying an ibook, but he just picked up an 15" LCD for his PC. He would like to be able to hook up one of the new ibooks to it & benefit from the extra real estate (VGA connection). Does anyone know if it is possible? I told him that I thought that it was (I can't imagine why, with that graphics card & g4, that he wouldn't be able to).

Also, he owns a G2 (Generation 2) 20 GB ipod for windows. Can he reformat this to work with his mac?

Thanks in advance.

I have already gotten one person to switch...now probably a second (my friend) with my father following suit shortly. Apple's on a roll with their products baby. I have no problems recommending them.

-Ian

[snowdropper]

we will have to wait and see if songoku912 applies the hack on his new machine

[fraeone]

The ibooks do not support monitor spanning. I don't believe they ever have. That being said, there is a firmware patch to enable it for older ibook models, and if we're lucky, it will work on the new ones too. The ATI Radeon 9200 is most definitely physically capable, it just depends on how Apple has chosen to limit it with software. There is also another variable with Panther. Maybe someone could post whether or not the hack works for their older ibooks with Panther?

[d4nth3m4n]

Originally posted by fraeone:
The ibooks do not support monitor spanning. I don't believe they ever have. That being said, there is a firmware patch to enable it for older ibook models, and if we're lucky, it will work on the new ones too. The ATI Radeon 9200 is most definitely physically capable, it just depends on how Apple has chosen to limit it with software. There is also another variable with Panther. Maybe someone could post whether or not the hack works for their older ibooks with Panther?

i have a 700mhz/14"/16vram ibook with panther (7B85) running... the hack still holds. i think changing the firmware has little if not nothing to do with the os. i think spanning would work with os 9 if i ever booted into it

i presume this is good news.

[fraeone]

Yes, definitely good news that it works on Panther. The reason I asked is that the original author of the hack had it working in OS9 first, and added OSX support some time later, so the OS does matter to some extent.

I guess we're still waiting to find out if it works with the new Radeon 9200 Video Chip found inside the ibook g4, but it seems like a good bet that it probably will.

[Simon]

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It would be really great if somebody with a new iBook G4 would try the OF hack and see if spanning works.

If spanning works on the iBook the 12" PowerBook is going to get really tough competition!

[fraeone]

As posted in the other duplicate thread to this one, monitor spanning is reported working by xlr8yourmac.com

carry on

[palmberg]

I've a friend who's talking about getting one of the new iBooks, but she wants to continue to use the 15" Studio Display she's presently using with her Cube. Possible? Recommended? Silly? Can she connect that display to a new iBook?

[DaBeav]

Unfortunately, the iBook only supports VGA-out. Adapters to go from VGA to ADC are rather expensive, and it will be an analog rather than digital signal. If she wants to use the external display, the best bet would be to get the 12" PowerBook instead...

[d4nth3m4n]

Originally posted by palmberg:
I've a friend who's talking about getting one of the new iBooks, but she wants to continue to use the 15" Studio Display she's presently using with her Cube. Possible? Recommended? Silly? Can she connect that display to a new iBook?

she can. it wont be cheap tho. i think the vga to adc adapter is like $300-400. really. but yes it is possible. just expensive. there are threads strewn about this.

Dan.