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Mac Mini--any way to use two monitors?
Posted by: anonymouse1
Date: November 15, 2006 05:41PM
That would just about seal the deal for me. I don't do anything require heavy graphics firepower; just want the screen space.

Anybody know how to run two monitors with one little Mini?
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Re: Mac Mini--any way to use two monitors?
Posted by: tahoedrew
Date: November 15, 2006 05:47PM
There may be accessories that let you run two monitors with the same image on them (kind of like signal amplifiers), but no way to run monitors in spanning mode that I'm aware of.

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Re: Mac Mini--any way to use two monitors?
Posted by: The Grim Ninja
Date: November 15, 2006 06:02PM
[www.123macmini.com]
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Re: Mac Mini--any way to use two monitors?
Posted by: jdc
Date: November 15, 2006 06:11PM
i would think 1 24" dell might be enough =)





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Re: Mac Mini--any way to use two monitors?
Posted by: Filliam H. Muffman
Date: November 15, 2006 06:32PM
For the extra $150 the DualHead2Go costs, you may as well just get a 20" iMac and run the second display from that. A mini configured up as much as possible to match an iMac is $1,225 (biggest hard drive, 1 GB RAM, and the DualHead2Go), and the base 20" iMac is $1,500. For the extra $275, the iMac has a faster 64 bit processor, an extra FireWire port, a bigger and faster hard drive, a much better graphics chip with more VRAM, and includes the 20" LCD.



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Re: Mac Mini--any way to use two monitors?
Posted by: BigGuynRusty
Date: November 15, 2006 06:49PM
The MuffinMan speaks the truth!

BGnR



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Re: Mac Mini--any way to use two monitors?
Posted by: The Grim Ninja
Date: November 15, 2006 07:23PM
I didn't say it made sense, I was just showing that it was possible.

Did you know that there's a Compact Flash adapter for the Apple II? I don't know why, but it exists...
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Re: Mac Mini--any way to use two monitors?
Posted by: BigGuynRusty
Date: November 15, 2006 07:34PM
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The Grim Ninja
I didn't say it made sense, I was just showing that it was possible.

Did you know that there's a Compact Flash adapter for the Apple II? I don't know why, but it exists...

Nothing against your link Grimster, but what a chunk of crap!
Dialog boxes appear split between the screens! Also, it is finicky as hell.

Also, don't make fun of my AppleII CF card reader!
I'm gonna get this thing running as a photo server any day now!

BGnR



"Good heavens, Miss Sakamoto! You're beautiful!"
"If we dig precious things from the land, we will invite disaster."
"Near the day of Purification, there will be cobwebs spun back and forth in the sky."
"A container of ashes might one day be thrown from the sky, which could burn the land and boil the oceans."
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Re: Mac Mini--any way to use two monitors?
Posted by: endymion
Date: November 15, 2006 10:16PM
I haven't had the opportunity to compare, but aren't the video chipsets in the Mac mini and the MacBooks the same? The MacBook can drive two displays... (one is internal).

On a related note, I've never quite understood how "dual link DVI" works... does that mean that, on a MacBook Pro, if I had the right adapter, I could run two displays of lesser resolution than the 30"?
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Re: Mac Mini--any way to use two monitors?
Posted by: SteveJobs
Date: November 16, 2006 06:31AM
All our winders boxes that run dual monitors, the pop-up message are always split between the two screens. It's windows's fault it sucks.



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