Monitor for G5 - Can i use a PC monitor?

Jerry Kindall wrote:
>
> Yep. The video card in the G5 has both ADC and DVI outputs. I know
> for sure that the DVI output also has an analog VGA signal, which can
> be accessed via a simple inexpensive adapter. So you can use either a
> digital or analog PC monitor. For all I know they might actually
> include the right adapter with the G5. (One came with the Radeon I
> bought for my G5.)
>

Yes, Apple supplies a little dongle with the G5 so that you can connect
to just about any VGA monitor without any hassle or expense.

Paul

In article <10b91440.0402081021.5225d1b2.TakeThisOut@posting.google.com>,
lsimon.TakeThisOut@mail.com (Larry) wrote:

> Will a standard analog monitor designed for an intel type PC work with
> a Mac G5?
>
> I hope this isn't a stupid question, but I'm not familiar with Mac
> hardware.
> You see, I'm considering helping out by daughter, in college, with a
> new G5. We have some extra 17" monitors at work as we've been
> relpacing these with LCD's. While I know she wants an Apple Cinema
> display, I'd rather spend the limited dollars on the CPU now and let
> her add a monitor later if the PC type LCD monitors will work.

Others answered your question so I'll just toss in my two cents about
something else.

I find it strange how people often misallocate money to the wrong
components. The monitor is the one part of the computer your daughter
will be staring at with her eyes for hours on end. You're going to get
her a $1500-$2000 computer, and she's going to spend 12 hours a day
writing term papers while staring at a 17-inch CRT -- a monitor with a
street value of around twenty bucks.

I recently needed to upgrade my ancient creaking desktop Mac. I don't
want a G5 because I'm holding out for Apple's next G5 product
announcement, rumored to be imminent. Instead I picked up a used G3/266
desktop for $150. I put in a G3/500 cpu I had from another system. I
added a Radeon 7000 video card, which has a DVI output. I added 512MB
ram, on special at OWC. Total cost of a machine sufficient to run OSX,
surf the web, do email, and even a little photoshopping: $400.

Then I picked up a beautiful brand new 20-inch LCD display for $600.
It's a $1300 display but a guy bought it brand new and didn't want it,
so he sold it to me. Still in the box.

Total system cost: $1000. But my eyes are thanking me every day. I
happen to have an old Nec 17-inch CRT lying around, so today I hooked it
up side by side with the LCD. The CRT is fuzzy and by comparison very
hard on the eyes. The LCD is brilliantly clear and sharp.

What you've done is the equivalent of buying an expensive big-screen
television, but you're sitting on a ratty, smelly, uncomfortable couch
watching it. A college student is going to be surfing the web, doing
email, downloading music, and IM'ing her friends. All tasks that could
be done equally well on a machine costing a few hundred dollars. That
17" CRT, on the other hand, will be giving her headaches until she
finally tosses it in the trash.

In article
<BLOCKSPAMfishfry-C258B5.12325308022004.TakeThisOut@netnews.comcast.net>, fishfry
<BLOCKSPAMfishfry.TakeThisOut@your-mailbox.com> wrote:

> Total system cost: $1000. But my eyes are thanking me every day. I
> happen to have an old Nec 17-inch CRT lying around, so today I hooked it
> up side by side with the LCD. The CRT is fuzzy and by comparison very
> hard on the eyes. The LCD is brilliantly clear and sharp.

Yeah, I've got to agree. I recently got a couple of the Samsung 21"
LCDs. Looking at photographs on these monitors is like looking out a
window, and I can set the text smaller without any loss in legibility.
Well worth the cost (about 15% more for the pair than you'd spend for a
single 23" Cinema Display).

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Larry <lsimon.TakeThisOut@mail.com> wrote:

> Will a standard analog monitor designed for an intel type PC work with
> a Mac G5?

Sure.


Geoffrey

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In article <1g8w42y.uilyufy5cuumN@[192.168.0.170]>,
goaEXCESSBAGGAGEbrains.DeleteThis@hotmail.com (Geoffrey) wrote:

> > Will a standard analog monitor designed for an intel type PC work with
> > a Mac G5?
>
> Sure.

99.9% Sure that is. It all depends on the video card and its drivers,
but generally there should be no problem.

In article <080220041556019665%jerrykindall@nospam.invalid>, Jerry Kindall wrote:
> Yeah, I've got to agree. I recently got a couple of the Samsung 21"
> LCDs. Looking at photographs on these monitors is like looking out a
> window, and I can set the text smaller without any loss in legibility.
I would consider a LCD for another reason. Especially in a
dorm room. SPACE! They don't take the same amount of space of a CRT.
Now I am looking to replace my old Apple monitor from my Performa
6115CD with a nice LCD one just because it won't take as much room at
the 15" brute that sits on my mac now. (its older Mac monitor,
actually from a older 68030 based performa, its getting tired and
cranky.) Perhaps when I get my Renters Rebate I will go to
Computerheads and pick it up (thats a local shop in Winsted where I live
btw.)
Because I am legally blind I will most likely remain using it
at 640x480 but thats my choice

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In message <BLOCKSPAMfishfry-C258B5.12325308022004 DeleteThis @netnews.comcast.net>,
fishfry <BLOCKSPAMfishfry DeleteThis @your-mailbox.com> writes
>Then I picked up a beautiful brand new 20-inch LCD display for $600.
>It's a $1300 display but a guy bought it brand new and didn't want it,
>so he sold it to me. Still in the box.

I have Apple's 20" display hooked up to my G5. I don't know how much of
it has to do with how much I love the G5, but I suspect that it has
played a big part in my really, really enjoying using that system over
my PC or G4 with 15" Studio Display.

Richard
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