[amcmall]

Hello,

I am a PC user who is thinking of buying a mac. I have been debating whether to get a ibook or the powerbook.

Since the powerbooks have a G4 in them now, I have been thinking of getting the 14" 933mhz one. Is there anyway to hook it up to a DVI monitor.

I know it has a VGA hook up. (if people have experiences with hooking up their monitor with the ibook, I would appreciate any responses)

also, my LCD support 1280 x 1024, will the ibook support that resolution.

Thank you, in advance.

[Phoible]

There is no way to directly hook a DVI display into an iBook. There are some VGA -> DVI converters that you can use, but they are very expensive. Fortunately, most monitors that have DVI connections also have VGA connections, so you could use that instead.

Regarding 1280x1024 on an external display, the iBook ships from the factory with only the ability to mirror whatever is on the LCD (no spanning). However, there is a hack that will allow you to turn spanning on, which has been confirmed to work on the iBook G4. With this hack, 1280x1024 should be no problem.

[selowitch]

Originally posted by Phoible:
There is no way to directly hook a DVI display into an iBook. There are some VGA -> DVI converters that you can use, but they are very expensive.

This is one of the key reasons to get a 12" PowerBook instead. If you do a lot of presentations or if you like to work on a larger display when possible, that model will frustrate you less.

[chaldean oracle]

Incidentally, note that there are almost zero Windows laptops without DVI output. So this deficit of the iBook's is really just in comparison to the Powerbook, rather than Wintel.