Re: I want to get a LCD monitor for my G4

2010-05-12 Thread John Ruschmeyer
On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 06:37 -0700, Bruce Johnson wrote: On May 11, 2010, at 3:41 AM, icanswing wrote: Okay I googled the ATY Rage 28 Pro and it says resolutions up to 1920 x 1440. I also found out that this was standard video card for the Sawtooth. I didn't know I had a Sawtooth until

Re: I want to get a LCD monitor for my G4

2010-05-11 Thread Clark Martin
On 5/10/10 10:38 PM, Stewie de Young wrote: Subject: RE: I want to get a LCD monitor for my G4 From: icansw...@aol.com How do I find out about my video card? I don't see anything under the system prefs. I have 2 hookups

Re: I want to get a LCD monitor for my G4

2010-05-11 Thread icanswing
Okay I googled the ATY Rage 28 Pro and it says resolutions up to 1920 x 1440.   I also found out that this was standard video card for the Sawtooth.  I didn't know I had a Sawtooth until now.  I have 2 connectors so how do you differentiate between ADC and DVI.  Mine had 10 pins across and 3

Re: I want to get a LCD monitor for my G4

2010-05-11 Thread Bruce Johnson
On May 11, 2010, at 3:41 AM, icanswing wrote: Okay I googled the ATY Rage 28 Pro and it says resolutions up to 1920 x 1440. I also found out that this was standard video card for the Sawtooth. I didn't know I had a Sawtooth until now. I have 2 connectors so how do you differentiate

RE: I want to get a LCD monitor for my G4

2010-05-11 Thread Stewie de Young
Okay I googled the ATY Rage 28 Pro and it says resolutions up to 1920 x 1440. I also found out that this was standard video card for the Sawtooth. I didn't know I had a Sawtooth until now. I have 2 connectors so how do you differentiate between ADC and DVI. Mine had 10 pins

Re: I want to get a LCD monitor for my G4

2010-05-11 Thread John Carmonne
On May 11, 2010, at 3:41 AM, icanswing wrote: Okay I googled the ATY Rage 28 Pro and it says resolutions up to 1920 x 1440. I also found out that this was standard video card for the Sawtooth. I didn't know I had a Sawtooth until now. I have 2 connectors so how do you differentiate

Re: I want to get a LCD monitor for my G4

2010-05-10 Thread Bruce Johnson
On May 10, 2010, at 8:34 AM, 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

RE: I want to get a LCD monitor for my G4

2010-05-10 Thread Stewie de Young
'any'. VGA is VGA is VGA, so any VGA compatible one is ok. Viewsonic does make quite good monitors, so that's an excellent choice. -- Bruce Johnson The only thing you have to watch is that your video card can output what the monitor requires. If you have something like a radeon

Re: I want to get a LCD monitor for my G4

2010-05-10 Thread TVirkkala
My ViewSonic is a great monitor . . . 'any'. VGA is VGA is VGA, so any VGA compatible one is ok. Viewsonic does make quite good monitors, so that's an excellent choice. . . . but when I'd hooked it up to the VGA adapter off my iMac, its visual quality was NOT great. Only when hooked up

Re: I want to get a LCD monitor for my G4

2010-05-10 Thread Kris Tilford
On May 10, 2010, at 3:53 PM, Stewie de Young wrote: The only thing you have to watch is that your video card can output what the monitor requires. If you have something like a radeon 7500 32mb which can handle 1024 x 768 and then buy a 24 LCD that needs 1920 x 1080 then the card will not

Re: I want to get a LCD monitor for my G4

2010-05-10 Thread Clark Martin
On 5/10/10 2:17 PM, TVirkkala wrote: My ViewSonic is a great monitor . . . 'any'. VGA is VGA is VGA, so any VGA compatible one is ok. Viewsonic does make quite good monitors, so that's an excellent choice. . . . but when I'd hooked it up to the VGA adapter off my iMac, its visual quality

Re: I want to get a LCD monitor for my G4

2010-05-10 Thread Bruce Johnson
On May 10, 2010, at 2:17 PM, TVirkkala wrote: . . . but when I'd hooked it up to the VGA adapter off my iMac, its visual quality was NOT great. Only when hooked up to DVI on my G5 tower or off my MacBook Pro (where it is now) does it look OK. make sure you were driving it at the right

RE: I want to get a LCD monitor for my G4

2010-05-10 Thread Stewie de Young
On May 10, 2010, at 3:53 PM, Stewie de Young wrote: The only thing you have to watch is that your video card can output what the monitor requires. If you have something like a radeon 7500 32mb which can handle 1024 x 768 and then buy a 24 LCD that needs 1920 x 1080 then the card

RE: I want to get a LCD monitor for my G4

2010-05-10 Thread icanswing
How do I find out about my video card?  I don't see anything under the system prefs.   I have 2 hookups on the back of my mac.  I'm guessing one is VGA. On May 10, 2010, at 8:25:24 PM, Stewie de Young stewies...@hotmail.com wrote: From: Stewie de Young stewies...@hotmail.com Subject:RE: I

RE: I want to get a LCD monitor for my G4

2010-05-10 Thread Stewie de Young
Subject: RE: I want to get a LCD monitor for my G4 From: icansw...@aol.com How do I find out about my video card? I don't see anything under the system prefs. I have 2 hookups on the back of my mac. I'm guessing one is VGA. If you drop the door down on your ( I presume G4 ) Mac and

Re: I want to get a LCD monitor for my G4

2010-05-10 Thread Justin The Cynical
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?