I must admit that I'm usually a PC person, but I've just got hold of an ibook G4 to use at work, and am trying to hook it up to a 17" monitor (brand new viewsonic VX715). I couldn't work out why I couldn't set the display to its native res (1280x1024)- the highest option seems to be 1024x768, same as the built in 12" screen. Now I have read somewhere that the ibook only supports "mirroring" to an external monitor... surely this doesn't mean that there is no standard way to set the resolution of the external monitor above 1024x768!??!! The ibook has 32MB video memory! If this is genuinely the case then I swear I will trust my suspicions in future and NEVER buy apple again. I just can't believe that this is the case, however. Can someone please explain how to set an acceptable resolution for my external monitor?

If you want to work on a large monitor buy a something other than a 12 inch IBook. Did you check that it supports this monitor before you purchased it?. Perhaps you could find a 12 inch windows lap top that supports your monitor? Go back to your windows machine and put on your propeller head hat and think code. And don't forget your anti-virus and anti-spyware software, and the average of 12.5 hours of onsite support your windows machine will need in its first year. We, the insignificant mac users will just plod along and use our macs to be productive in the real world. Please continue to use Windows, it gives us mac users a competitive advantage in the business world. Grant South Australia