>Chris and Don,
Hi Bea;
Sorry for delayed response. You'll see why it took a
bit though. Apologies to list for a very long mail.
> I've been thinking of buying a monitor to place in my office and use
>my laptop in another room - but I have no experience of them and am not
>sure what will suit my need.
Could you clarify your context.
Two monitors showing the same info on them? (Mirroring)
Two monitors showing different info on them? (normal
multimonitor configuration)
Are the office, both monitors, and computer all in same
house? I've never had to do one remotely so it might
be better for someone else to chime in on that item if
that's what you're doing...though I'd suspect that
RemoteMonitor isn't too hard either once you do whatever
minor little yummy stuff they want to configure it.
A few years ago, Timbuktu had a computer online sitting
there with the software hooked up so you could see a
Remote Machine connection working. Essentially it showed
a window on your machine that showed the apple menu and
hard drive of the remote machine as if the window was the
other machines monitor in 'miniature'. You could 'move'
their hard drive icon and go exploring the info on the hard
drive as if it was your own machine and hard drive. They
had write permission turned off for obvious reasons but it
demonstrated that the connection was actually working.
IIRC, it was as simple as starting the software, entering
the remote location, logging in, and voila... connected.
>In preparing an academic paper I want to
>see more pages on the screen,
>and use a larger area than I have on my 15" (?) laptop.
>So would I use a
>vertical or horizontal monitor?
Vertical ... if that's what you really want.
My normal 19" seems happy to show a full page on it
without doing anything unusual. With a large monitor
(that will serve you well in other ways), maybe its not
necessary to go vertical. Besides, vertical only
means you have to slip into a tight dress as far as
horizontal space is concerned. A normal larger monitor
means you have your cake and eat it too. Setting the
screen resolution to 870 x 1156 or higher helps too.
>Also the one I saw at the Apple store was VERY expensive.
Apple store = highest price for new perfect factory
equipment. Fine if that's what you want.
A used regular monitor is often far cheaper and generally
I've had good results with that method.
Swaplist and finding a local auction Mac guru are the best
two kinds of sources I prefer. Nobody knows everything,
so its always good to have a few different people available
to bounce stuff off.
If you don't have to have it shipped that's the ultimate
in cheap monitors. I picked one up for a new 17" (in
the sealed box from a second hand dealer) for $50 a
couple years back and happily had to rip the glue seals
to get it out of the box. Have been totally happy with
it and the $70 used 19" main monitor that is its big brother.
'USUALLY' used monitors will go cheap if you talk nice
to your favorite 'Mac guy' and are doing the 'open the
car door' shipping method. Since this isn't a desperation
buy, the best thing to do is go 'in the hunt' long before
you plan to buy. Take the laptop with and the guy should
be able to hook it up and demo it for you in a few minutes
to prove the setup works. Also helps if you're uneasy
about self installing a video card.
>I am using a Classic OS X 4.11 with OS 9 including for my Emails. I
>understand the only connection I need is a cable that fits into my laptop
>at one end and the monitor at the other.
Hardware required: Probably only a carefully selected
video card, the exact cable for your specific
configuration, plenty of RAM, and the second monitor
itself.
>Is it then just a question of dragging a folder to the
>monitor image on my laptop?
If I am assuming correctly that you're wanting to use
one machine with two monitors at one location, its easier
than that. All you need to do is hook up the hardware
correctly (there are a couple significant details to know
about that) and once hooked up, the mouse will actually
naturally pass from one monitor to the other once you
spend about 2 minutes in your monitors control panel
or the OSX system prefs / displays panel. That's so
self explanatory that you probably won't even need much
(or any) hints. What you can't see (in OS9) with single
monitor is that there is an 'arrange' panel / button that
lets you 'place' the monitors on a symbolic little panel so
that it shows how you are arranging them on the desk
they will be sitting on. That will show how your mouse
will travel from screen to screen.
> Also if I knew what I was specifically looking for I'd like to try
>obtaining a monitor on Ebay.
EBay = Shipping. I really hate shipping monitors or
machines. Try to cultivate a good working relationship
with somebody who frequents auctions and carries off
a bunch of Mac stuff regularly to sell. That will save
you some money when the time is right for hardware
renewal / replacement.
Shipped a few and was 'nail biting' the entire time
worrying that they wouldn't make it and I'd end up
eating the costs.
>Appreciate your thoughts,
>
>Bea
happy to help
Don
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