[MacDV] iMovie3 on Clamshell iBook (Conspiracy?)

[Mark M. Florida]

On Sunday, February 2, 2003, at 11:36 PM, David Crump wrote:

> Anyone out there who's been using iMovie2 on a clamshell iBook?
> I've got the 466MHz G3 iBook SE and was very frustrated to see that 
> iMovie3 will not work on my machine due to my 800x600 resolution 
> limitation.  I guess it's upgrade to a new machine, or stick with 
> iMovie2.  Any workarounds?

Yup, seems like the only "workaround" is to use the "required" 
hardware... any G3 or G4 Mac that supports a screen resolution of 
1024x768 or higher... A requirement which the "clamshell" iBook does 
not meet.  And you know what sucks?  Don't these iBooks have video-out 
capability?  Like you can connect an external monitor?  Oh wait, it 
only supports "mirroring" the iBook display, which is limited to 
800x600!  Doh!  So, even though the graphics chip in these things can 
easily handle 1024x768 (and dual monitors), and even though the iBook 
built-in screen is limited to 800x600 resolution, due to the 
limitations Apple put on the VGA output, you can't connect an external 
monitor and run it at a resolution higher than 800x600...  Why?  
Because Apple didn't want these cute little iBooks to eat into any of 
the (much more profitable) sales of the "Pro" laptops, which could run 
in dual-display mode using the built-in LCD along with an external 
monitor...  Like I said before... Apple is a *hardware* company, they 
want you to buy hardware, and then buy more hardware in 2 years when 
your perfectly good hardware is rendered obsolete by their software.  
If iMovie 2 works, then just stick with it, and just to spite Apple, 
RUN IT IN MAC OS 9!  HA!

Sounds like a conspiracy to me...  (see previous LONG post about this)  
Time to switch to BeOS!

:-P

- Mark