Rig of the Day: One more headless Powerbook

You can enable mirroring just fine, rcs, and have it display through that. You can also set one monitor, the "main" one if you will, to be a different resolution than the laptop screen. I think my external is running in 1470x960, or whichever resolution is around that size. It looks ugly and stretched.

It won't have any problems taking up an entire screen, it's just that modern LCDs might have too high a maximum resolution. That and mine is really picky about colour output, too, so I don't get nearly the beauty I get on my PowerMac G4.

Have been trying to get my 5300c 603e to display to an external monitor and have not been able to do so. Is a control strip modual required? I have the contol panel for the monitor and another to display on a monitor but the choice is never active. The monitor(NEC) works on my 7500/100 so I don't think it's a mac/win problem.

And can anybody recommend a group/s that still discuss 7500/100, 5300c, Claris 3/4 spreadsheets(AppleWorks does not support macros or so I've been told).

Ryan I was wondering the same thing. Seems like Henri answered part of the question but I am still wondering if it worth the effort to go with a larger screen if it can't be used. Did you find out anything else. The image seems to use the whole screen on the flickr page where there shots are shown.


Thanks

If you close the lid but have and external keyboard and mouse plugged in, it will disable the internal LCD. I used to run my Lombard like that all the time.

These screenless laptops make taking those pretend I don't have a screen or see through screen pictures much easier!!!
;-)

Well it's is surely not a media centre setup but still a cool iTunes-on-my-TV rig! Even the visualizer is too much for the Lombard (333Mhz/384Ram) running OSX 10.2.8. (I did use it for Mpeg playing on TV in the OS( days though)

@Ryan, I don't think it's possible to disable the internal screen. Even in my setup, with the screen 'missing', mirroring is needed to get a picture on my TV.

Its use is pretty limited, actually. I recently picked up a G3 PowerBook Lombard, which I absolutely love, but honestly it's not much of a machine anymore. I've upped its RAM to 384MB from 128, which gives it at least a little bit of punch, but it can't play video to any real degree on Panther.

One thing I would like to know is whether or not it can run ONLY on an external monitor. Mine's currently plugged into my desktop monitor, where it can only do 1440x960 on a 1650x1080 monitor, and only gives me the opion of mirroring or running dual. Mirroring, obviously, removes the widescreen from the external (which then displays it even more stretched), while dual is just not all that practical. Kind of disappointing, really.

Ah, well, that's what my PowerMac is for.

i like the idea, but could it really be used as a media centre? For iTunes maybe, but for video I think it would just be too slow - for video, xvid etc, even my 800 MHz iBook g3 drops frames all over the place