06-06-2006, 01:46 PM
Hi,
I have a 17" HP LCD that I bought way back when the price was around $450 (ouch).
Anyway, when I used to have a G4 mini, the display looked fuzzy and washed out (you may remember that the G4 minis initially had lots of user-reported problems regarding poor quality image with various monitors (VGA and DVI if I remember correctly)).
Then, when I had a G4 iMac (17", 1.25 GHz, USB 2.0), I spanned the desktop (using the hack) and the image looked great...sharp, crisp, clear and bright.
Now, I have a MacBook (white, 2.0 GHz). I bought the mini-DVI to VGA adapter from the Apple store yesterday and proceeded to hook up the MacBook to the VGA LCD. Bam! Same problems I was having with the mini recurred. The image looks blurry/washed out/faint and just plain old blah. The image on the MacBook, however, is awesome.
I tried changing the settings: mirror only, extended desktop, I changed the resolution on the HP LCD, on the MacBook, on both at the same time, etc., etc., but to no avail.
Anybody know what's up with this?
I understand that my LCD is VGA, so it shouldn't put out as crisp an image as a DVI LCD, but it doesn't make sense that the image looked great with the G4 iMac, but pathetic with the G4 mini and now with the MacBook.
Thanks!
I have a 17" HP LCD that I bought way back when the price was around $450 (ouch).
Anyway, when I used to have a G4 mini, the display looked fuzzy and washed out (you may remember that the G4 minis initially had lots of user-reported problems regarding poor quality image with various monitors (VGA and DVI if I remember correctly)).
Then, when I had a G4 iMac (17", 1.25 GHz, USB 2.0), I spanned the desktop (using the hack) and the image looked great...sharp, crisp, clear and bright.
Now, I have a MacBook (white, 2.0 GHz). I bought the mini-DVI to VGA adapter from the Apple store yesterday and proceeded to hook up the MacBook to the VGA LCD. Bam! Same problems I was having with the mini recurred. The image looks blurry/washed out/faint and just plain old blah. The image on the MacBook, however, is awesome.
I tried changing the settings: mirror only, extended desktop, I changed the resolution on the HP LCD, on the MacBook, on both at the same time, etc., etc., but to no avail.
Anybody know what's up with this?
I understand that my LCD is VGA, so it shouldn't put out as crisp an image as a DVI LCD, but it doesn't make sense that the image looked great with the G4 iMac, but pathetic with the G4 mini and now with the MacBook.
Thanks!
