Ha! I've had this monitor, which went with my useless MAC, sitting up and taking space for years. Years! I couldn't get rid of it. So it sat there, hulking, stubborn and bulky.
It was squatting there, gloating, as I carefully dusted the useless creature. Then, it dawned on me that I have endless Netflix movies on line.
"Hmmmm", I thought...why can't I make output to the monitor, which has a somewhat larger screen and can show a movie, at least? So I had to nudge around at the help center for a few minutes to find this:
I found a complete solution to the problem, using my VGA cable from the monitor! Dummy me! It was there all along, and the cursor works, too! Yee hah!
I found some other methods of getting output from computer to televisions and larger monitors. Here they are, for your complete frustration and viewing pleasure.
So what do I end up with? A big, smug, hulking monster that has the same size screen as my laptop and which still require my laptop to be running in order to operate. Yarrrghh. I'm selling it!!!
Today!!!!
Moving on. Next, there is that s-video cable thingie that will connect to my huge, hulking TV to the MAC.
But the MAC needs a parts and an OS upgrade, to "Wildebeest" or "Love Monkey". I don't know what animal that Mac OS is up to now.
It's all beyond me. I like my computer like my men: In good working order, fully loaded and always turned on. Yeee!
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Exactly. And this is why it is better to just get a new one than to try to fix the old one.
I've been thinking about connecting my laptop to the TV. But it looks like work. Maybe if I can get Sven the wonder Geek over here with the hot bod, I can get motivated.
You're a riot Zuma!
And though it would be seriously cool to hook my 'puter to my TV, I've not yet figured out how to do it, despite that the idiot box has every kind of jack on it that you can think of. A USB might work but I can't find one that long; do they make 20 ft USBs?
Chuckling at the Wildebeest
Good Luck with all that!
Naneh: The easiest is either the 7 pin or the 4 pin s-video.
Coyote: It might be "Muskrat" by now.
65: I got it. I'm very happy with the Dell.
Skeletnwmn: there are so many free movies and shows on line that you won't need cable.
spotted: It might have been the allergy pill...loop de doo!
R
And this is where the men and old computer analogy droops.
JK: Oooho.. *snort*
R~
Oh the joys of stand alone equipment.
Chuck: You are mad crazy. I have OS ten point ZERO. ZERO! I think it was Wombat.
OWL: I was fine until I started dinking around, and I loves me Dell.
Patrick; It is beyond me wildest nightmares, ever since a DOE spook told me about reading people's wireless emanations...
Scanner: Leave it alone! Don't touch anything! My laptop hasn't moved in two years. I mean it.
Walter: Oh hell to the no. I still have to get some stuff moved. Outta here.
Spin doctor: It's all hoodoo magic.
Gwendolyn: You made my day. I love you all, too!