Hi Roger,
Its sounds more technical than just hooking up two pieces of
equipment.
Wish there was a Mac/Claris club in or near Studio City - trying to
resolve these
technical problems sounds time consuming and sadly time is the one thing
I don't have
enough time for exploration. I find having someone demonstrate how
these things work
is so much simpler than trying to explain things in words.
Appreciate your help and experience , thanks,
bea
[email protected]
>Beatrice Hopkinson <[email protected]> wrote on 1/11/09 4:59 PM:
>
>> I have no idea of what VGA and HDMI cable is. I have my cable
>> through Time Warner - does that identify it?
>
>
>I was referring to the physical wire used to connect the external display to
>my iMac. You are referring to the supplier of your broadband Internet
>connection, which comes over your cable TV wire, through your cable modem.
>
>My iMac is one of the newer (12/06) flat panel iMacs. It has a built-in
>screen, but can support an external screen -- a second screen -- with a
>resolution up to the same as the internal screen. The connection must be
>made through a physical wire -- a cable. I can use either a VGA wire
>(cable) or an HDMI wire (cable).
>
>The iMac's internal screen's resolution is 1920 x 1200. The external Dell
>display has the same resolution as the internal display, i.e., 1920 x 1200 =
>24". But when I connected the external display through the VGA cable, the
>iMac could not support 1920 x 1200. So everything on the Dell display
>looked magnified, i.e., the resolution was less than 1920 x 1200, something
>equivalent to a 20" display.*
>
>When I changed the connection cable from VGA to HDMI, the Dell display
>happily worked at 1920 x 1200. It has a rotation pivot in its support arm.
>I can turn to display from landscape to portrait, and then use the iMac's
>System Preference Displays Pane to change the view to the correct
>orientation.
>
>*Full disclosure: I first used iMac Mini-HDMI to VGA converter. Then I
>used iMac Mini-HDMI to HDMI converter.
>
>
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>Roger S. Cohen, President, Cohen International
>[email protected] http://www.rogercohen.com
>Voice: +1 (845) 358-8936 Fax: +1 (845) 358-8937
>
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