Re: heavy lifting
- From: Brooks Moses <bmoses-nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:21:53 -0700
David Goldfarb wrote:
In article <1i02xs2.1wu85t3aug4fdN%green_knight@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Catja Pafort <green_knight@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If your operating system or graphics card don't support different
resolutions, that's another matter, but the _monitor_ will.
I remember I had a Mac Performa, and I decided I wanted more screen
real estate, so I bought a larger monitor. Only it turned out that
the computer didn't support different resolutions, so I wound up
with exactly the same screen size, just displayed bigger. I felt
rather stupid about that.
A little while later I did get a new Mac...I bought a G4 tower rather
than an iMac because I felt I ought to get something that could use
the new monitor.
Hee. I recently got a used G4 tower, and wanted to use the monitor that came with it on my PC. And it turns out that in this case the _monitor_ doesn't support different resolutions (it's a flat-panel that assumes that the computer is doing all the resolution conversion stuff), and its native resolution was higher than what my PC would support. So I ended up getting a new video card for my PC, and then ended up getting a new motherboard because my old one wouldn't support that video card.
- Brooks
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