On Aug 18, 2010, at 10:23 PM, Clark Martin wrote:
How do you figure the LCD has more pixels, it's a 1920 x 1080 screen.
You're correct. 1920 BIG pixels, which is why HDTV make bad monitors unless you're sitting about 10 feet away. You can buy 15" notebooks with the same 1920x1080 resolution. That means the notebook has over 11x the pixel density of the 52" HDTV. Eleven pixels of the notebook would fit inside one single pixel of the HDTV with room to spare.
I'm running Leopard, not sure of the Mini version off hand.
All the G4 Mini's came with Radeon 9200 video cards, but the final 1.5 GHz Mini has a different 9200 with 64MB VRAM rather than the standard 32MB that all the other G4 had. This final 1.5 GHz Mini may possibly have better DVI output than the other G4 Minis with the 32MB Radeon 9200, an Achilles' heel of the G4 Mini. The other Achilles' heel of the G4 Mini is the single RAM slot and the need for low-density RAM, which limits the G4 Mini to 1 GB RAM total.
AFAIK DVI doesn't support audio at all.
On older computers it doesn't. But with the proliferation of DVI-to- HDMI adapters, many video card and computer manufacturers started using some of the unused pins of the DVI output to handle audio, and then adapted this non-standardized audio into special DVI-to-HDMI cables so that you could achieve standard HDMI audio/video from a DVI port. If you have a newer Mac, you can get standard HDMI audio/video from a DVI or mini-DVI port IF you have the correct Apple approved cable. Other cables should always work for the video only, and the audio may or may not work depending upon how the DVI-to-HDMI adapter cable is wired AND the DVI port supports audio output.
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