Bruce Johnson wrote: > > On Mar 20, 2009, at 9:21 PM, tonycd wrote: > > >> >>My old 17" CRT still works fine, but I'm getting greedy at home for >>the same convenient screen real estate I have at the office (I often >>need to display two Word docs at once). >> >>I see 22" monitors for $140 that sound pretty good. I am VEEERRRRY >>price-sensitive, and this is like the sirens singing to me. >> >>I also read that one monitor advertised it was "Windows Vista-ready" >>and had the drivers for that OS. (Drivers? For a monitor?) > > > More than likely this is color profiles for the monitor. > > >>a question I never even thought of: are some LCDs incompatible with OS >>X? > > > None as far as I know. Whether features such as autorotation work > (flipping it from landscape to portrait orientation) is dependent on > the vide drivers, not the monitor. You don't mention what computer you > have, and what video card you have...there are monitors on the market > today that won't work with some of the very old Video cards in the > earliest OS X compatible computers. >
Yes, I made the move nearly three years ago. Bought a Samsung 22" and it worked out of the box and I have an acient G4 with only 16MB VRAM. The "real estate" is great! JT --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
