[rescue] q on G4 "Digital Audio" and screen res

[Michael Parson]

On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 03:29:32PM -0400, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> Before I go out and plunk down some money for a widescreen LCD, I am
> wondering if the G4 "DA" (digital audio) Mac that I have, that has a
> 16MB ATI card, will drive a widescreen monitor at 1440x900 ?

FWIW, I run my DA at 1400x1050 with a 32 meg GForce2 MX.

> BTW, I have to say that for a 4-5 year old system, I am pretty
> impressed by general tasks like reading email, surfing the web etc. by
> this system: G4/466Mhz, 896MB RAM.

Right now, I think I want faster CPU (currently 733Mhz), then
faster/bigger graphics.  I've got pleny of RAM (1.5 GB).  Disk I can put
on firewire. =)

But it is a great box, even being 5 years old.

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Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org