[Ti] 12' Powerbook

[b]

Alexandre Kapellos paused, thought it over, and spoke thusly:

>Le Mercredi, 13 aoû 2003, à 00:01 Europe/Zurich, 
>Hayes-Holgate, Shaun a écrit :
>
>>Can't you just hook up a cheap 17 or 21"
>>monitor to the 12" powerbook when you're
>>working at home?
>>
>Exactly! Anybody out there doing this?
>
>Alexandre

Sure, lots of us, probably. I use a LaCie 
electron22blueIII monitor with my 667, all the 
time. Quark, Final Cut pro, Premiere...matter of 
fact, any Adobe app with all their palettes, and 
the Macromedia apps all have plenty of room.

The LaCie wasn't 'cheap', though, but on the 
other hand,  I can look at it for 30 - 40 hours 
without eye fatigue ... around 
deadlines.....priceless.

With full-screen renders, Photoshop, or 
PhotoRetouch Pro work happening, I can use the 
LCD to 'park' the palettes while the workspace 
dominates the LaCie.

One other benefit: Working around the limited 
video RAM on the earlier PowerBooks, like mine. I 
can run the setup in 'clamshell' mode. That is, 
with the system on 'sleep', close the PowerBook, 
wake the system, and all of the video RAM is 
devoted to the external monitor (otherwise it is 
divided between the two). This allows millions of 
colors at much higher resolutions.

Panther, in a 15-minute 'test' a month ago, gave 
me millions of colors at 100 Hz, at very high 
res. Looking forward to it when it comes out. My 
monitor only runs at up to 85 Hz, for now. The 
higher Hz yields even less 'flicker'...makes for 
an extremely stable, easy-to-view image.

If your budget permits, go for the external.

~flipper