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The keyboard is actually an Apple Extended ADB keyboard, the Mac equivalent (perhaps) of the Model M and highly regarded as one of the best keyboards ever.
Oh sweet! I'd guess the grpahics chip/VRAM takes a bit of a hammering running 2 17" LCDs on that. I don't think the Mac mini was really designed to handle 2048x1024 graphics areas running Core Image acceleration.
Oh and for what it's worth I don't think the line chopping technique they use to split the screen in half on the box would work on a DVI digital output - looking at the technique they use it looks like the clock in the DualHead2Go splits the signal using a halving clock onthe scanline refresh rate so that it flips from on display to the other and back on every line. A *different* system for DVI, based on some sort of digital splitting and remapping, wouldn't be so hard to do, but the majority of people wanting dual display on the cheap only have VGA screens anyway (be they CRT or TFT).
sibertankFeb 12, 2006
Almost ever comment here is like a slap down lol,In the picture he is using a microsoft mouse on his mini mac lol.
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The keyboard is actually an Apple Extended ADB keyboard, the Mac equivalent (perhaps) of the Model M and highly regarded as one of the best keyboards ever.
supersteveFeb 13, 2006
cool, great solution if you need dual display on a mac mini
svpirateFeb 13, 2006
Oh sweet! I'd guess the grpahics chip/VRAM takes a bit of a hammering running 2 17" LCDs on that. I don't think the Mac mini was really designed to handle 2048x1024 graphics areas running Core Image acceleration.
svpirateFeb 13, 2006
Oh and for what it's worth I don't think the line chopping technique they use to split the screen in half on the box would work on a DVI digital output - looking at the technique they use it looks like the clock in the DualHead2Go splits the signal using a halving clock onthe scanline refresh rate so that it flips from on display to the other and back on every line. A *different* system for DVI, based on some sort of digital splitting and remapping, wouldn't be so hard to do, but the majority of people wanting dual display on the cheap only have VGA screens anyway (be they CRT or TFT).