Monitor and Merrimack

Jastroch · Post by **Jastroch** » October 24th, 2007, 7:16 pm

My spare monitor just went fuzzy. As my laptop's monitor is blown, this is a bad thing.

Also, I have no money.

Anyone have a mac compatible Monitor that isn't super ancient that they feel like donating. I do a lot of graphics 'n' shit.

Thanks in advance.

Walking out the door when this happened, but I'm checking Craigslist when I get home.

Jastroch · Post by **Jastroch** » October 24th, 2007, 7:17 pm

Never mind. Sort of.

Slapping it seemed to work, for now, but this doesn't bode well for the future.

apiaryist · Post by **apiaryist** » October 24th, 2007, 10:43 pm

Jastroch wrote:Never mind. Sort of.

Slapping it seemed to work, for now, but this doesn't bode well for the future.

I've found that a liberal dose of canned air will buy you some time. Smoking near your monitor also greatly increases the chances of crap trapped inside. You might want to use the entire can of air to really be sure.

Asaf · Post by **Asaf** » October 24th, 2007, 10:49 pm

I could also use a Mac compatible monitor as I tripped the other day and my laptop slammed down leaving a crack in my LCD screen. So now at least one third of my screen is not usable. Makes it hard to do stuff. so if anyone has a Mac compatible screen...

scook · Post by **scook** » October 25th, 2007, 12:30 am

The UT College of Communication just replaced all of their Mac systems. I don't know what they do with the old ones, but I bet you could call someone and find out.

slappywhite · Post by **slappywhite** » October 25th, 2007, 9:09 am

I'm not amazingly familiar with old school Mac products but, didn't they just use plain a old VGA plug like a PC? Or a DVI connection? If so you can just buy any monitor and at worst need to buy a 5$ DVI to VGA adapter at frys...

http://www.logicapproach.com/index.php? ... cts_id=170

These guys have monitors for between 5$ and 100$ depending on how nice you want to go. I could probably scrounge an old one from work but whoever got rid of it probably did so for a reason so it might not last long.

Mo Daviau · Post by **Mo Daviau** » October 25th, 2007, 10:54 am

There's an el cheapo used computer store on Anderson. Discount Electronics, I think it's called? They usually have older Mac hardware for around $20-30.

mpbrockman · Post by **mpbrockman** » October 25th, 2007, 11:37 am

slappywhite wrote:I'm not amazingly familiar with old school Mac products but, didn't they just use plain a old VGA plug like a PC? Or a DVI connection?

No, they used a now extinct proprietary DB15 plug. However, Belkin makes a Mac-VGA adapter that works quite nicely if you're a classic Mac user. It only runs about $15-20.

slappywhite · Post by **slappywhite** » October 25th, 2007, 2:07 pm

mpbrockman wrote:
slappywhite wrote:I'm not amazingly familiar with old school Mac products but, didn't they just use plain a old VGA plug like a PC? Or a DVI connection?
No, they used a now extinct proprietary DB15 plug. However, Belkin makes a Mac-VGA adapter that works quite nicely if you're a classic Mac user. It only runs about $15-20.

I know Apple has always been big on proprietary hardware, but monitors? Sheesh that was going a bit far.

madeline · Post by **madeline** » October 28th, 2007, 4:35 pm

looks like there's a free monitor to be had, grab it grab it:

http://austin.craigslist.org/zip/455467910.html