The eternal dilemna, etc

[Tom Burke]

On 12 Jul 2004, at 17:50, iBook List wrote:

>> Soooo...This is why I think I will stick again with the iBook...
>>
>> P.S.:Got to be reasonable,hey ?
>> But I am not a monk or a saint!!
>> Got to please me a little too either...
>>
>> -Can't refrain to add a 512 meg of ram (experience talking) 768 total!
>> -I want the 60 Gigs HD, not the 30 ! (always short on space)
>> -I want the Airport card (Hy graphite has it, I love this ad-on)
>> -And...I want my candy! I will take an iPod also!
>
> What do you sacrifice by taking the iBook instead of the Powerbook:

[snip]

> External video display capability with higher resolution than 1024 x
> 768 (you can only do display mirroring with the iBook; for the record,
> I've connected my Powerbook 12 inch to an external 17 inch monitor
> maybe twice since I bought it.... It's always on my lap, and I don't
> log monitors on the balcony or the living room).

Don't forget the (in)famous Screen Spanning Doctor hack, which 
(re)enables screen spanning for iBooks just like on Powerbooks. It 
didn't work on older iBooks, but is supposed to work on all G4 iBooks. 
Go to XLR8Yourmac.com and search for 'Screen Spanning Doctor'.

Tom Burke