lazyweb, lazyweb, bake me a cake: MacOSX and Dell 24" Widescreen Monitors

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Dear Lazyweb,

I'm trying to find out what macintoshes can drive a Dell 24" widescreen monitor. I'm wondering about my powerbook incidentally, but I'm actually looking into this for someone who's thinking of buying a mini or a small powerbook/ibook.

my powerbook's a 1.5ghz PowerBook with a GeForce FX Go5200 64MB video card. I think this is the current spec for a 12" pb video card if this helps.

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Not really imho. I don't know about graphic design, but a lot of the problem with systems for programming is that you need to be able to see enough of the context at once to make good decisions. Big screens help with that a lot, incremental processor speed improvements not as much as you might think. Memory is a problem for these smaller systems, though; that has to be managed carefully but I can run a fairly serious application engine and development environment on my pbook without even having to mess around too much as long as I don't run a lot of office/backend stuff at the same time.

If there was a plug-and-play installation for tomcat or some other servlet engine on the mac, it would be the bestest. As it is, I'm using crippletomcat and doing a lot of good low-level webdev.

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Ah, see, when I hear programming I still think of the old days of compiler-intensive stuff, where CPU and RAM were always the critical limiting factors.

I'm not (would never) saying that a larger screen is unjustified, just that I'd probably spec more power to drive it for what I consider higher-end tasks.