I use the 20" HP 2035 hooked up to my 12" PowerBook. It's given me no
problems, and it works perfectly with my Mac. It wakes and sleeps along
with the PowerBook, handles plug-in and -out during sleep or when
awake, and in all other ways behaves great with the Mac. Mac OS X 10.3
and 10.4 recognized it immediately with no additional drivers and
whatnot needed, and I suspect earlier versions would too but I haven't
tried it.
The PowerBook drives the monitor as a second display at its native
1600x1200 resolution in "millions" of colors. The PowerBook will also
work with the monitor when the laptop's lid is closed if you have an
external keyboard plugged in via USB, in case you don't want the
dual-display feature active for some reason. Video mirroring works too,
but only at the native 1024x768 resolution of my PowerBook's built-in
display.
One of the features I really like is that it has multiple inputs which
can be active simultaneously (it even has picture-in-picture). In
addition to DVI-D and VGA inputs it has video-in so you can hook up a
DVD player, or in my case I have it hooked up to an Atari 2600 for old
school gaming fun. I just have to press the "input" button on the front
to switch to full-screen Yars' Revenge whenever I want a quick game
break.
While the video-in is an advantage over the excellent Apple LCDs, the
HP does not have USB inputs and so it lacks the USB hub feature of
Apple's monitors.
I have a second computer hooked into the VGA input, and I can switch
over to that with a press of the "input" button as well so it's like a
KVM switch without the K and M. :-) It's actually quite handy if you
have a server you only need to monitor occasionally.
The 2035's stand can lift the monitor up and down, and swivel it side
to side about 30 degrees. It also tilts up and down about the same
range. The monitor can also rotate into vertical (verses landscape)
position, but this feature is not supported by the Mac. As far as I
know it's the only unsupported feature versus using it on a Windows PC.
The monitor stand is removable, and it's attached with screws in the
standard VESA mount position so unlike Apple's monitors you don't have
to buy an adaptor if you want to attach the 2035 to a VESA arm.
The 2035 is bright (far, far brighter than the PowerBook's built in
screen) and very sharp. It's a fast enough display that I've never seen
any ghosting or trails during games or when playing/editing videos.
The monitor's brightness is quite uniform across the whole display,
with only a small difference in intensity and hue in the corners (nor
more than Apple's monitors have, and far less than most LCDs). Overall
color is fairly accurate: not as good as a good CRT, but easily good
enough for anything but very high end graphic design for which color
fidelity is absolutely essential.
I use the PowerBook for video editing with Final Cut Pro and associated
software and it performs excellently. Along with Apple's LCDs it's the
only 20"+ LCD (the Dells included) I've used that can keep up with
video without ghosting. (All LCD ratings for speed are outrageously
misrepresentative, so ignore those 8ms claims.)
I'd recommend this monitor without reservations.
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On 1-Dec-05, at 12:41 PM, Joe Clark wrote:
Recommendations for reasonably-priced LCDs with a DVI connection I
can use on my Titanium PowerBook? Native 1600 resolution would be
nice but not essential.
Also, question I should already know the answer to: DVI and ADC
connectors are two different things, right? And all I need is a(n
overpriced) DVI cable?
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