I see Mac’s all the time with two monitors running side by side. I’ve poked around System Preferences, and cannot see how to tell it to use a second monitor.
I am going to want to apply an external monitor to my Titanium Powerbook running 10.3. So, use the LCD onboard AND an external LCD. I have to believe this can be done. Can it? How?
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Of course it can! Just plug it into the extra monitor port and OSX will automatically recognize it. When you go to your Display Prefs, there’ll be 2 windows in each monitor to adjust it’s settings.
Enjoy!
Also, it’ll show you a little drag-able map of your monitor layout (two squares, side by side). Which ever monitor you want to set as your MAIN monitor, drag the little top menu-strip into that square. It may already be there, tho. You can also move the squares around to the relative position of your actual monitor set up. Way cool.
If it doesn’t recognize it, there’s a ‘detect monitors’ button in the Display Prefs panel. I’ve never had to click it, because the machine always seems to know when a second monitor is hooked up.
I run three screens off my PowerBook. (The third screen hooks up via a CardBus PCMCIA card that provides an extra DVI port).
On desktop Macs, you can keep adding monitors until you run out of slots to put extra video card to hook them to, and the OS will obligingly recognize them and let arrange and use them. (I suppose there’s a ceiling imposed by the number of address bits allocated to display in general, but I’ve never heard of anyone hitting the wall).
A dude I know has three dual-head video cards in his G5 for a total of six monitors (two big LCDs and four small CRTs). He does Final Cut Pro for a living.