[MacDV] Re: New Towers, Old Towers, LCDs, OS9, OSX, etc...

[Thubten Kunga]

You can drive all sorts of third party DVI monitors with the older 
cards with a $35 Dr. Bott ADC to DVI adapter Kathy.

k

On Tuesday, January 28, 2003, at 06:36  PM, Mike Stanley wrote:

> Just thinking out loud here - but might it be because the 20" runs at 
> an
> unusual resolution and the don't want to spend the effort retooling 
> the OS 9
> video drivers to make them run at that resolution?
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "KathyMac!" <Mac4Music at MusiCareOnline.org>
> To: "Macintosh Digital Video List" <MacDV at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 7:52 PM
> Subject: [MacDV] New Towers, Old Towers, LCDs, OS9, OSX, etc...
>
>
>> Ok, so maybe it's a hardware and chipset issue now and labor is money 
>> and
>> time is money. I understand. But NOW I see on the website that the 
>> new 20
>> inch LCD REQUIRES Jaguar to run. ???? What is the purpose of making a
>> monitor that way? Is it not to control the public and force them into
> buying
>> the X only machines if they want a nice LCD? It doesn't make much 
>> sense to
>> me. What about everyone on the planet right now running 9 in nice 
>> (albeit
>> slightly older) G4 towers that would like to add a display? Monitors 
>> are
>> supposed to be more universal than that.