Will Apple 23 Cinema Display work with my graphics card?

Hi can someone help me on this - i know its similiar to other posts

 

I have seen an ex-display Apple Cinema Display 23? at a very attractive price.

The key question is will it work with the Windows XP laptop I use for photo-

editing? Its an Acer Travelmate 8104WLMi (Pentium M 760 2GHz,.Mobile Intel 915

chipset, ATI Radeon X700 video card with 128Mb RAM) It has necessary DVI

output and a firewire connections, so key question is will that card drive the

1900x1200 resolution of the 23?display and is there anything I don?t about

that prevents attaching an Apple display to a PC laptop?

 

Also, is there any problem calibrating the display when attached to a PC

laptop?

 

(excerpt from ATI X700 spec attached below)

 

Visual Display Flexibility

 Flexible and easy-to-use interface for multiple display settings

 LCD-EE? display engine allows for support of the latest high

resolution and wide-screen notebook displays such as WXGA (1920x1200) and QXGA

(2048x1536)

 165 MHz integrated TMDS transmitter, for support of DVI Digital Flat

Panels at up to UXGA resolution (1600x1200)

 230MHz integrated, Dual Channel LVDS

 Integrated TV-Out Encoder

 Dual RAMDACs at speeds of 400MHz

 Integrated HDTV encoder, supporting component output (YPbPr) for both

North American and Japanese D-link connectors

The current ACD 23" is 1920x1200 and the specs you quoted specifically say it will run that resolution. Given that it also has a DVI output, I suspect it will be fine.

 

Make sure your drivers are up to date before installing the ACD though. Although my graphics card supported my ACD 23" screen it needed updated drivers before it would run correctly (i.e. support the proper res.).

But the specs are contradictory - it says it supports notebook displays up to 1920x1200, but also to supporting DVI flat panels up to 1600 x 1200? Should I try it anyway - I saw a post elswhere saying that someone had succeeded with this combination but of course there could be different incarnations of the X700 in different laptops

But the specs are contradictory - it says it supports notebook displays up to 1920x1200, but also to supporting DVI flat panels up to 1600 x 1200? Should I try it anyway - I saw a post elswhere saying that someone had succeeded with this combination but of course there could be different incarnations of the X700 in different laptops

I see, well then I don't know.

 

Since it is a laptop and is portable, how about going to your local apple reseller and asking to try it out? It is a plug and play device so you should have your answer fairly quickly.

Ok, I've now tried it. The dual display feature in Win XP doesn't seem to work. The ony thing I've been able to do is select plug and play monitor in the graphics card driver, but that mirrors the lap top screen, meaning the maximum resolution is limited to 1680x1050, that of the laptop screen, There must be a way to set plug and play monitor as primary monitor?