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Any idea what the first mac laptop or tower/card to support monitor rotation is? - pRICE cUBE - 12-01-2009
I want to hook up a monitor to put in a hallway that displays pictures, videos, announcements on a vertical screen. My mind and my searches are not bearing fruit as to what Mac laptop supports a vertical external monitor orientation. Maybe a tower would be cheaper or g4 mac mini? What OS combo and what cards supported this? I am looking for the lowest possible price as this is for a non profit group. I am also open to...doing this one a pc....uuuuugh.
Thanks in advance.
Re: Any idea what the first mac laptop or tower/card to support monitor rotation is? - M A V I C - 12-01-2009
PC should be easy as it has to do with drivers.
IIRC, I think it was nvidia that supported it first on Macs. I think my Radeon 9000 did it, or was it my Nvidia 5200... one of those two. Either way, fairly old.
Re: Any idea what the first mac laptop or tower/card to support monitor rotation is? - JoeH - 12-01-2009
Their may be earlier models that supported it, but as I recall it first became available on OS X Macs with Radeon 9000 series video. Not sure when the capability was added for nVidia video chip sets. Pretty sure it was supported by 10.3.
Re: Any idea what the first mac laptop or tower/card to support monitor rotation is? - Forrest - 12-01-2009
You folks are off by about a decade. The Radius Pivot monitor was available in 1990 with System 6 http://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/17/science/personal-computers-looking-at-life-from-both-sides.html
Re: Any idea what the first mac laptop or tower/card to support monitor rotation is? - lost in space - 12-01-2009
Apple had a vertical grey-scale monitor for the IIci.
Re: Any idea what the first mac laptop or tower/card to support monitor rotation is? - Filliam H. Muffman - 12-01-2009
I am pretty sure any cheap laptop with Nvidia graphics will do display rotation. It might take a step up from the onboard graphics. I could stop BestBuy and check if you want.
Edit: I thought the Radius Pivot was out in 1989....
Re: Any idea what the first mac laptop or tower/card to support monitor rotation is? - cbelt3 - 12-01-2009
Radius Pivot with a Radius card for the SE/30. I had one. It was most cool ! But definitely get the Daystar 68040 card, and max out the RAM at 16MB if you can. There are times I miss that beast. Aldus Pagemaker, and when you get bored or need a break, Ambrosia screen saver games. Good times... goood times.
Re: Any idea what the first mac laptop or tower/card to support monitor rotation is? - pRICE cUBE - 12-01-2009
Thanks for the radius suggestions but I think I will need a bit more speed to run video clips.
Re: Any idea what the first mac laptop or tower/card to support monitor rotation is? - M A V I C - 12-01-2009
HD video clips? Then your issue is likely going to be finding a computer that's fast enough and not if it will rotate or not.
Re: Any idea what the first mac laptop or tower/card to support monitor rotation is? - pRICE cUBE - 12-01-2009
M A V I C wrote:
HD video clips? Then your issue is likely going to be finding a computer that's fast enough and not if it will rotate or not.
Probably not HD clips, probably just 640x480 and set the monitor to a lower res. setting vertically.