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iBook closed lid + external display
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Sweden
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Hi,
Was wondering if it is possible to have an external screen connected to an iBook and have the lid closed? When I close the lid it just goes to sleep.
I am pretty sure I read about some way to make this work sometime ago.
Thanks
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Los Angeles
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According to what I have read, clamshell mode is not available on the iBook. Apple reserves such features for the PB. Not the answer you're looking for, but that's all I have.
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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Admin Emeritus  Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
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Search for a utility called "Screen Spanning Doctor", which enables desktop spanning and clamshell mode on later-model iBooks.
tooki
P.S. this belonged in the iBook forum.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: May 2002
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That's all fine and good unless fg has an older iBook like I do. (I have the last, very last iBook before they upped the VRAM and added the disabled Spanning hack.)
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Sweden
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Thanks for all the replies. I have the latest ibook and it looks like I have to have to lid open when I have it connected to an external screen. Not that big of deal. Don't want to mess with firmware upgrades. Read on the forum that some iBooks had broken.
Thanks again
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Boston
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Your safest (though not cheapest) option is to go the PB route, if keeping the lid closed is really important to you.
Mike
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Aug 2004
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Thanks for the heads up Tooki, I just installed Screen Spanning Doctor on my iBook and I'm now rockin' hard with iTunes Visuals/Simpsons episodes on the TV while still being able to work on the main screen.
Sweet.
Damn Apple for crippling our hardware in order to invent feature gaps between their ranges. I can't say this kind of behaviour surprises me though, by now I've gotten used to Apple's dodgy business practises. 
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