Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

The last easy hardware twiddle I can think of is reseating the graphics card... worth a bash?

boss got the hump and carted it off. thanks all though.

^upset –> apple –> cart

The apple is a metaphor for sexual knowledge.

Some of us have it.

I love apples. I'm not so keen on Apple. Not since my Mac Plus died.
Take my 9" of monochrome, 1mb ram, 100mb ext. scsi hdd goodness..

anyone got a G5?
our logic board is knackered, company tight, and won't buy a new one.

skoota was selling some a while ago.

set up for video editing tho.

Try not working so hard next time. Work is bad for Macs.

i know the sort of mac you like , ya dirty ol' man

Anyone know of anything that will split video out to two displays from a M*cBook Pro? Or a third party option not approved by A**le?

Cheers

Do you want two displays showing the same thing or two displays extending the desktop?

Not sure - it's for a client and I need to check - imagine it will be to extend the desktop - he has towo new Dell 20" monitors he wants to use

Something like this would work: http://www.dabs.com/products/matrox-dualhead2go-digital-usb-powered-4XN8.html

you will need a dvi splitter and a mini-dvi to dvi.
i don't know if the card will drive 2 separate displays though? i think they can drive the 30in? well they can certainly drive a single 23

disclaimers:
you need the correct mini-dvi thing, the current macbooks use a different one, all are avilable from the applestore.
i'm presuming your monitors are dvi not vga.
if there is no monitor profile for the dells it may default to the laptops own profile. if you profile the external monitor it can use that.
go to system prefs > displays > detect displays.
do some googling to find somebody who has done it before.

edit: the macbook may have a full size DVI out if it is an older model

Major Major pain in the arse!
Firstly Macbook Pro is DVI, most Dell monitors (if not all?) are VGA output so you need to convert it to VGA, then unless you want the resolution to be shockingly low on both monitors, you are probably going to have to buy an external or express slot powered graphics card set-up NOT CHEAP!
Way more stress than its worth, if I was you I would tell them to sell the two 20 inches and get one 24 inch monitor at a higher resolution than the 20 inches e.g. 1900 x 1200, that should be more than enough "screen real estate" for most applications that aren't going to need crazy beefed up desktop power.

Major Major pain in the arse!
Firstly Macbook Pro is DVI, most Dell monitors (if not all?) are VGA output so you need to convert it to VGA, then unless you want the resolution to be shockingly low on both monitors, you are probably going to have to buy an external or express slot powered graphics card set-up NOT CHEAP!
Way more stress than its worth, if I was you I would tell them to sell the two 20 inches and get one 24 inch monitor at a higher resolution than the 20 inches e.g. 1900 x 1200, that should be more than enough "screen real estate" for most applications that aren't going to need crazy beefed up desktop power.

what he said.

either pay a shit load or downsize.

Oh yeah in addition, as Mr Smyth said if its one of the newer Macbook pro's they have some miniport to DVI thing instead of a proper DVI socket, so thats an additional cost to take into account, more hassle than its worth, I wouldn't bother.
One decent Higher resolution monitor, and bin the two 20 inches.

so what about put one of these:

http://www.nvidia.co.uk/page/geforce_7300.html

in one of these

http://www.magma.com/products/pciexpress/expressbox1/index.html

VGA is old technology how old are the monitors? or are they cheap ones?

if they want a big screen get a 30in the macbook pro's shoud drive it o.k. they make a dual link dvi adaptor especially for it.

I'm waiting for spec of the monitors - I think they're new Dell 20" FP's

so what about put one of these:

http://www.nvidia.co.uk/page/geforce_7300.html

in one of these

http://www.magma.com/products/pciexpress/expressbox1/index.html

Waste of time, Money, and cables.
What does the client need, why on earth does he want/need 3 monitors worth of screen space?
Sometimes people need to be told what is best for their application rather than just pandering to their requests without intervening.
You would get better performance and almost as much screen space with one decent high resolution 24 inch, and it would cost less because you flog the two 20 inch monitors to subsidise it.

so what about put one of these:

http://www.nvidia.co.uk/page/geforce_7300.html

in one of these

http://www.magma.com/products/pciexpress/expressbox1/index.html

Fucking hell that magma thing is expensive..... for that price i would just buy the biggest single monitor you can.... this should be big enough! http://accessories.euro.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=uk&l=en&s=dhs&cs=ukdhs1&sku=170559

VGA is old technology how old are the monitors? or are they cheap ones?

if they want a big screen get a 30in the macbook pro's shoud drive it o.k. they make a dual link dvi adaptor especially for it.

If its one of the newer macbook pro's or the older 1 inch with half a gig of graphics card memory then it will drive the 30 inch fine, but if its the older/newer 15 inch with 256mb it will not drive it at full resolution as it hasn't got enough grunt so you might as well go for the next size monitor down and suffer no drop in performance.