[macbain80]

I've got a 1ghz TiBook, and am looking at buying one of the phenomenally reviewed Dell 24 inch LCD monitors. I'm wondering what the viability of this is... I have an ATI Radeon 9000 in my TiBook, with DVI that supposedly supports the resolution of the Dell monitor, so my questions are...

1. Would driving this size monitor tax my CPU? I need all the clock speed I have, and I don't know if a monitor like this would leech a lot of my power.

2. Should I go DVI, or analog for the connection? I've seen some people say DVI makes for mouse lag with high resolutions...

3. Would it create enough of a heat issue that it could shorten the life of my powerbook? (assuming I'm running it in clamshell mode)

4. Is my graphics card bad for this setup? I hear some people have talked about "image tearing" with ATI cards and these LCD's when playing DVD's, etc.

Any help would be most appreciated!

(P.S. I'd much rather get an Apple display, but those 23" monitors and their pink tinging scare me off, especially for that much more cash...)

[tooki]

1. Nothing to worry about.

2. That's utter nonsense about the mouse. Go DVI.

3. More heat? Yes, slightly. Shorten life of the PowerBook? No. You'd just hear the fan come on more often with the lid closed.

4. No more or less than with the internal display. Under Panther and Tiger, you'll see image tearing over video when there's something overlapping the video (for example, the DVD controller), but as soon as nothing overlaps, it will go into a synced mode that prevents tearing.

tooki