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  1. Re:Just go for it....soon by morgue-ann · · Score: 1 · on When Is There a Good Time to "Switch" to Apple?

    non-mac user people I know still have PS2 keyboards and often PS2 mice

    I got a KVM that uses PS/2 keyboard & mouse & connects to the computers via USB. (iBook & PC @ home, G4 MDD tower & PC @ work)

    If my Expert "Mouse" trackball goes nuts or gets unplugged I can power-cycle the KVM by unplugging it instead of rebooting the computer.

    Also, you can use Screen Spanning Doctor to run displays at higher than built-in display resolution from iBooks and eMacs. Now that you can get SuperDrives in iBooks, they look pretty nice.

  2. iBooks can span monitors, too by alien666 · · Score: 1 · on PowerBook Performance for Java Development?

    With a tiny little (unsuported) firmware patch.

  3. Here are instructions for enabling iBook spanning by GPS+Pilot · · Score: 1 · on Is Monitor Spanning Possible on an iBook?

    http://macparts.de/ibook

  4. Re:Monitor Spanning fine in OS X by frankie · · Score: 2 · on Is Monitor Spanning Possible on an iBook?
    The idea that apple deliberately disabled it seems paranoid...

    ...but it's unfortunately true. Both Rage 128 Mobility and Radeon Mobility have built-in support for dual display. And it really can be done.

    Apple does this from time to time. For example, they underclocked the Mac IIse so that it wouldn't compete with the more expensive IIci.

  5. some info for you by Alcimedes · · Score: 3, Informative · on Is Monitor Spanning Possible on an iBook?

    first, this is possible. monitor spanning can and has been done on iBooks under OS9 and OSX.

    seems it's a software limit in the OS for the hardware.

    try this site for an account of someone who's done it.

  6. Re:Should be possible... by RevAaron · · Score: 2 · on Is Monitor Spanning Possible on an iBook?

    I have Linux installed now, but I've not tried it. I'm switching back to OS X as soon as I get a hold of Jag. [1]

    If you could, please shoot me an email and let me know of your success.

    I've a feeling that to get it working in OS 9, it involves editing a resource. I think that all ATI 128 (in general, or maybe just all Mobility 128s) share the same extension as a driver. In the extension, there is probably an if-then that gets the gestalt of the machine, and doesn't tell OS 9 that it can do monitor spanning if it's an iBook.

    Well, this appears to be yet another instance where they put up an Ask Slashdot when a 30-second Google search mostly suffices: have a look at this. :) Doesn't include a solution for OS X, but definately has our answer.

    [1] I used to use Linux as my primary OS when I used a PC, bought a Mac 2.5 years ago for OS X, but switched to Linux for a while to see if it still sucked like I remembered. Seems to suck even more after getting used to Mac OS X. :P