icanswing wrote:
Hi,
What brand of LCD monitors will work on my Mac g4? It has 2 hookups one is VGA
and the other is ADC.
They never specify the hookups on the description on the monitors. But I'm
thinking that viewsonic may be the ones that are compatible with macs.
Any suggestions?
(coming in a bit late)
As others have said, VGA is VGA. Mac, Windows, Linux, etc, it's pretty
much all the same.
You mentioned that you have an ADC port on the back of your current
video card. An ADC port is basically a DVI connector with the extra
Apple-only lines for analog and digital video signals, USB, and power.
You can find ADC to DVI/VGA adapters so you can use that port with a
standard panel as well, you will just loose the ability to power the
panel/use any built on usb ports with a single cable.
I noticed that you said you tried a VGA cable before and it looked bad.
This could be caused by a low end VGA cable (analog VGA is suspect to
cheap cables) or the resolution being sent to the panel was less than
what the panel can produce (AKA the native resolution). LCD panels look
best when running them at their native resolution, otherwise they will
generally stretch, fold, spindle and mutilate the image to fit.
I've got an older Dell panel that has a native resolution of 1680x1050
that has been used on my old B&W G3 and G4 DA with out a single issue.
Now if you were talking about an Old World Mac, then things might be
different as they had some 'odd' resolution settings, but would work
with a standard VGA monitor with some fiddling (I've still got my old 15
Way D Male to 15 Way HD Female adapter cable for my pizza box performa).
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