Old 21" CRT Monitor with a new PowerMac G5?

Stefan Daehler gesar at tiscalinet.ch
Sun May 23 11:16:58 PDT 2004


Original Message:

>> Yes, this will work perfectly. By the way, I did that several times 
>> the
>> other way around, to hook a PC-Monitor to a Vintage-Mac. If, with 
>> these
>> boxes, I have to replace a monitor, I always look for one with a
>> connector at the monitor's side. I still have a few cables with a
>> VGA-Connector at the one end and a DB-15 Connector at the other end.
>
> Hi Steff,
> Do you know if there is any performance hit using this setup?
>
> Will Apple's video provide acceleration for the Radius CRT?
>
> Thanks, and so long for now, TOM

Well, as I understand,  video-acceleration is generally being provided 
by the video-card and not by the monitor. In short: Yes.

Cheers.     Steff



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