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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (68729)	9/17/2007 2:06:12 PM
From: clean86	Respond to of 213181

MBPs supporting the large monitors and MBs needing a special adaptor of some sort? It has to do with the video card in the MB which shares system memory. The Macbook Pro has a dedicated video card with it's own memory separate from the system memory. I also agree with Paul that you should buy your systems from an out of state third party vendor. If you buy from Apple you will pay the 8% tax unless you purchase the system in the store in a place with lower tax. Clean

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (68729)	9/17/2007 3:25:53 PM
From: Cogito	Respond to of 213181

>>thanks can anybody comment on the issue of MBPs supporting the large monitors and MBs needing a special adaptor of some sort? I read that but not sure what it was referring to.<< Lizzie - The MBs need and adaptor to connect to ANY monitor, because they have a mini-DVI port. As you've already read, they also don't have the graphics power to drive the 30" monitors. - Allen

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (68729)	9/17/2007 3:54:39 PM
From: Frank Walker	Respond to of 213181

My friend has a MacBook and for photography tweaking he hooks it to a Samsung 22" LCD (226BW), it works fine with a standard DVI cable at this monitor's native 1680x1050 resolution. He runs the MB display at its normal resolution in dual screen mode. He sometimes also connects the MacBook to a Sony projector HD TV for photo viewing, for this he just uses a DVI to HDMI adapter cable (sold in most TV stores). I have the same monitor and like it a lot, has good color and a 2 msec response time so it's useful for DVDs too. I use it with a Dell desktop PC which has run flawlessly 24/7 for 4 years. But the stand-alone Mac monitors probably have better color, I checked out the iBook 24" recently and its glossy display had a more saturated color than my anti-glare Samsung LCD. I'd like to switch my XP desktop computer and laptop to Macs eventually but everything Wintel still works great for me so I haven't had a big reason to make the move. Although just getting more familiar with Apple technology hands-on would probably be a good reason.