On 22 Apr 2004, at 08:52, Tom Burke wrote:
Anyway, the point of this email is just to report that I have run this hack on the 800 Mhz G3 iBook, and it works perfectly in Jaguar - I can now 'turn off mirroring' in Display, set the VGA screen to the resolution I want (1280 x 1024 in my case), and rearrange the screens so that the VGA screen holds the menu bar. Brilliant!
'tis indeed wonderful - I've been using is on my 700MHz G3 iBook for several months, just as you describe. Works fine with both X and 9.2. Seems that Apple disabled the spanning capability of the graphics chips involved just to protect PB sales.
This hack also works on the G4 iBooks; well, the immediately-previous ones, the brand new ones aren't available yet so it hasn't been tested on them. But there's no reason to believe that it won't work on the new ones; the point about the firmware hack is the iBook graphics chip natively possesses these capabilities but that Apple have disabled them to create a distinction between iBooks and Powerbooks; the hack just reverses Apple's disabling.
Given this, there's not a lot of difference between the new 12" 1 Ghz iBook (costing �800) and the new 12" Powerbook (costing �1150).
Absolutely. Can't see the point in the 12" PB at all.
Stuart
(Of course, spanning an iBook could affect your warranty - but that's arguable, since it's a firmware mod, not a hardware hack. In any case, it would be un-do-able with most faults before returning the iBook under warranty. And if there's no external screen connected, the system puts the menu bar back on the iBook screen, so the mod would almost certainly not be detected.)
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