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some macbook pro questions

ok, i'm turning fifteen in a couple of weeks so go easy on my inexperience.

I'm planning on getting a macbook pro and, for home, hokeing it up to a 22" e228wfp dell monitor (I know acd's are probably better but at twice the price i'm all set). Anyway, I was wondering if I could use the dell monitor and the mbp's screen at the same time, like a duel screen kind of thing. I also am curious how duel screen works, as I have never used a duel screen. I would probably just do something as simple as putting iTunes on the mbp's screen and everything else on the dell. Thanks for your help and I will post pics of my setup when I get it all!

Any help would be great!!:D
 
techlover828 said:
ok, i'm turning fifteen in a couple of weeks so go easy on my inexperience.

I'm planning on getting a macbook pro and, for home, hokeing it up to a 22" e228wfp dell monitor (I know acd's are probably better but at twice the price i'm all set). Anyway, I was wondering if I could use the dell monitor and the mbp's screen at the same time, like a duel screen kind of thing. I also am curious how duel screen works, as I have never used a duel screen.

Any help would be great!!:D
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I don't use dual screens with my PowerBook, but the short answer to your question is that yes, the MBP will handle multiple screens. AFAIK, it'll recognize your second screen as soon as you plug it in. As for how it works with apps opening in a specific screen or something like that, I'm not sure. Someone else here will no doubt know, though.
 
techlover828 said:
ok, i'm turning fifteen in a couple of weeks so go easy on my inexperience.

I'm planning on getting a macbook pro and, for home, hokeing it up to a 22" e228wfp dell monitor (I know acd's are probably better but at twice the price i'm all set). Anyway, I was wondering if I could use the dell monitor and the mbp's screen at the same time, like a duel screen kind of thing. I also am curious how duel screen works, as I have never used a duel screen. I would probably just do something as simple as putting iTunes on the mbp's screen and everything else on the dell. Thanks for your help and I will post pics of my setup when I get it all!

Any help would be great!!:D
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Dual screens work essestially as one, imagine you've got the two screens side by side. You'd just launch an application (from say your dock which would only be on one screen) and you could just move it from screen 1 to screen 2 as easily as if it was just one large screen!

Its really simple and REALLY handy.

Not sure how expose would work though :S
 
techlover828 said:
ok, i'm turning fifteen in a couple of weeks so go easy on my inexperience.

I'm planning on getting a macbook pro and, for home, hokeing it up to a 22" e228wfp dell monitor (I know acd's are probably better but at twice the price i'm all set). Anyway, I was wondering if I could use the dell monitor and the mbp's screen at the same time, like a duel screen kind of thing. I also am curious how duel screen works, as I have never used a duel screen. I would probably just do something as simple as putting iTunes on the mbp's screen and everything else on the dell. Thanks for your help and I will post pics of my setup when I get it all!

Any help would be great!!:D
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you could'nt run Itunes on one screen and something else on the other, the monitor will simply display the same as the Macbook. 15 and getting a Pro, boy times have changed since I was 15. We were lucky to even inexpensive Items
 
Scarpad said:
you could'nt run Itunes on one screen and something else on the other, the monitor will simply display the same as the Macbook. 15 and getting a Pro, boy times have changed since I was 15. We were lucky to even inexpensive Items
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What are you talking about? I can use the MacBook Pro monitor and my 22" LCD independently of each other.
 
Scarpad said:
you could'nt run Itunes on one screen and something else on the other, the monitor will simply display the same as the Macbook. 15 and getting a Pro, boy times have changed since I was 15. We were lucky to even inexpensive Items
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I'm not even sure if I'm getting a mb or a mbp and I had to work for the money, and as I don't have to pay rent and stuff

Thanks

P.S. It would be helpful if you didn't try to expose me as a spoiled teenager and answer my original question as I am still a little confused (unfortunatly I have yet to recieve either the computer or the moniter so I can not toy around with it yet (do you have to set it up in system prefs? is is difficult?))

P.P.S. Thanks for those of you who actually answered my questions, I just get frustrated when everyone thinks that all teenagers with a macbook pro are spoiled
 
New setup

I just moved and arranged everything into a new setup:

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I still need to take care of a cable here and there, though.
 
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