[CUBE] Geforce3 VGA and DVI

[Thubten Kunga]

GeForce 3 MX cards are not TwinView. None of them are. But I didn't 
understand that until this latest string.

My enthusiasm for TwinView cards stems from having used two or three 
monitors on every Mac I have owned since 1987's Mac II forward. It has 
nothing to do with my still having six 32 MB TwinView Apple OEM ATI 
Radeon 7500 left for sale that I only sell to list members and 
CubeOwner and Cube-Zone members and never on eBay. In the case of the 
Cube, from my multi-monitor history, I see TwinView as essential and I 
don't really understand the concept of having only one monitor on any 
Mac that is inherently Multi-Monitor capable.

You'll have to forgive my TwinView enthusiasm. It stems from 16 years 
of always having more than one screen attached to all of my Macs, not 
from an uncommon tendency to write infomercials for the six TwinView 
7500 cards I have left for sale every time someone brings up the 
subject. ; ^ )

Now with the newly updated Gefen VGA+USB to ADC adapter
<http://www.gefen.com/kvm/product.jsp?prod_id=1301> for only $299, one 
can now drive all of the 2003 Apple Cinema Monitors at their native 
resolutions from the 7500's VGA port in addition to the native ADC port 
to another. So the 7500 still fits the bill for an outstanding TwinView 
experience this year when it's inside a Cube.

I am currently doing very little. I have 10 applications open. While 
the management of all these windows is certainly far from difficult 
thanks to LiteSwitch X, ASM and Minimize In Place, having two 1600 x 
1200 monitors supported from my Cube's 7500 certainly makes for a much 
more enjoyable time. I'm still driving CRTs so it's a pretty cheap 
approach. But I know many of you think that one screen is plenty. With 
me it's force of habit and familiarity that makes me love the extended 
desktop.

The fact that I have a few left for sale is incidental to my rants on 
the subject. I have been a MultiView evangelist since day one in 1987. 
You would be surprised how many Mac owners are still unaware that the 
extended desktop part of the OS is even available.

k

On Monday, February 24, 2003, at 11:56  PM, Todd Masco wrote:

> the fact that TK keeps inviting people to buy TwinView cards from him, 
> so I can't see him as holding a disinterested opinion on the matter.  
> While I'm not saying that he's consciously pushing his product 
> exactly, sometimes it feels too much like an infomercial.