Try going to your Display control panel, and click the detect displays button. Or you may already have two display panels pop up. Your external monitor is not set to its native resolution. If it is big like you say, it may be set to 800x600. Bump it up to 1024x768 or 1280x1024 maybe even higher.
Give that a shot. Brian O On Jan 23, 2006, at 3:02 PM, b3 wrote: Okay, so I've got the 12" PowerBook on my desk, and it's hooked up to my old 15" Gateway LCD. But the problem that I'm running into is this: the display on the PB is nice and crisp, the external display though, is a 15" with the same resolution, so the images are a bit more "fuzzy", etc. when screen spanning, and moving windows from the PB side to the other, they of course appear huge. So, what I'm looking to do is replace the Gateway LCD with something that would provide for a better overall experience. Of course I would love to have a 20 or 23" apple display, or a Dell 2005FWP, but the budget will not allow it at this point. Does anyone have a suggestion for a good, cheap LCD display. i'd like to go with a 17" or larger to compliment my 12" PowerBook. I'm not really to keen on the whole technical side of monitors and what resolution matches up to what, so any help would be appreciated. What I do know is that larger screens at the same resolution make the images larger and fuzzier, right? any help? rick | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 24 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 24 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
