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    Alu Macbook's 9400M performance on large external monitors?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Jiten, Dec 13, 2008.

  1. Jiten

    Jiten Notebook Consultant

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    I used to own an old white 2.2 Ghz Macbook and tried to use it with my 23 ACD a noticed that extensive 2D effects of Expose and Spaces tend force the integrated graphics to drop frames and become choppy. The choppiness is especially apparent when I use extended display mode and have lots of windows and items opened.

    I'm contemplating in getting a new alu Macbook and hook it up to the same 23 incher (or perhaps get myself one of those fancy 24 LED ACDs :) ). To those who have a similar set up, how snappy or smooth does the new alu Macbook's 9400M GPU drive large 1920x1200 external monitors?
     
    Jiten, Dec 13, 2008
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  2. qhn

    qhn Notebook User

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    I used ACD 23" in the past year with NO issue. Just replaced it with a used 24" Flexscan S2410W, quite happy with it!

    And this is with a 2ghz old macbook.

    cheers ...
     
    qhn, Dec 14, 2008
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