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Triple Displays Possible with Mac OS X!!!
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Great lets all get the 30 inch LCDs and get 3 and have 90 inches 
... Well I have 4 17inch ones on a 9650/350 before...
... Well I have 4 17inch ones on a 9650/350 before...
you could run a powermac 9600 with a 1GHz upgrade with 12 screens connected to 6 9200's, but i'd still rather have a g5 with a 6800 running 4 23"ers (i'd like to see if one of those splitters actually work) and 3 9200's with 6 23" apple panels connected to them (you can use them on the vga socket with a vga-dvi converter (expensive buggers))
drool 10 23" apple lcd's
drool 10 23" apple lcd's
Hector said:
You would only be able to use 2 9200s in that G5 as the 6800 takes up the AGP and one PCI slot. Hoever if you scale the First video card back to a 9800 and then you could use 3 9200s.
MacNut said:
DVDs don't play on more than one screen. Full screen will only expand the video to fill whatever screen the viwer is on and you cannot manually strech the window.
It's better that way anyway, you can have a movie going on one screen while working on another. I'm watching Aliens on DVD right now. hehe
Jeez I wish I would have seen this thread earlier! I finally got my setup running nice. Using the ATI 9200 PCI to run a 3rd monitor and it works like a charm! Have a 23" Apple Display and 17" Samsung runnin on the NVIDIA 6800 and the 3rd is a Samsung 17" runnin off the ATI card! It sure works nice! Where Im located right now I didnt have room for another 23" otherwise I would have two 23" and then the two 17"s on the outside! One can never have enough real estate!
im so confused.. i thought the 6800 could have Dual Dual displays.. as in four??
This card includes dual-link DVI connectors to deliver up to 2560 by 1600 resolution over each port. Even better, with two connectors, or Dual dual-link (DDL), you can drive two 30-inch displays, for the ultimate creative canvas.
from apple's site.
Ok.. so why have they written dual dual link? then say only two 30inch?
This card includes dual-link DVI connectors to deliver up to 2560 by 1600 resolution over each port. Even better, with two connectors, or Dual dual-link (DDL), you can drive two 30-inch displays, for the ultimate creative canvas.
from apple's site.
Ok.. so why have they written dual dual link? then say only two 30inch?
cb911 said:oh sweet!!!
you're going to have to search for some 3 screen wallpapers now. i know Mandoulx has dual screen walls, but good luck finding 3.
or just make a 3 screen wallpaper -- i mean if you are working on three screens you probably have the skills to do it
3 screens in Tiger !!!! looks I just might have to sell the Emac and buy a G4 afterall. In the meantime...I've sort of accomplished the same thing with one Emac and one PC with dual screens. The Emac is in the center and the pc flatscreens are on each side (with Mac desktop screens). I use the Emac 90% of the time and the two pc screens are for viewing TV or using iTunes since the pc is hooked to the Stereo system. What does a person do with 3 screens you may ask?? Anything and everything they want and ALL at the same time without flipping programs back and forth to find what the want. It's ALL on the screen and within reach of your mouse.
We have 4 of these at work, and 1 at my desk
I am talking to our Purchase account manager to see if I can get our discount on this detup.
If I get Final Cut Pro, this will be a nice monitor setup, they are nice, bright, and have good visibility.
