Re: [microsound] fc4 and ibookg4 (memory size)

[Malte Steiner <steiner@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

>  the other thing is that powerbooks will let you use an external 
monitor,
> but you can use both at once, as a kind of super big display (which is really useful for 
> editing stuff where you have lots of tool windows etc)... ibooks will only let external 
> monitors mirror the laptop display.  both features seem useful for video editing.

Its true but because I- and Powerbook uses the same graphic processor 
there is a firmware hack out to enable expanded desktop on Ibook. I have 
no experience with it so far but got a recommendation by a VJ so it 
should work and give good framerates for realtime.

http://www.rutemoeller.com/mp/ibook/ibook_e.html

Cheers,

Malte


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