[dustin.weidner]

hey, i looked around and could find my answers, here are my ?'s.

-can you run high quality displays off of the 10v?
-what hookups/adapters will I need? make sure these cables can keep the quality..
-will the 10v be sluggish with its 1gig ram? or should I opt to get the 2nd gig?
-what size displays can I look into getting?

first priority is quality, second is size. I deal with photos a lot and would like a larger resolution than this for when I need it. Thanks!

[pokenguyen]

When you connect your 10v to external display by VGA cable, your graphic card will automatically detect your display and provide you available resolution for your display. For example, when I connect to my 17" LCD display, I can choose 1024x768 resolution or higher. The quality depends on your display setting. You should buy a VGA cable because your mini 10v only has VGA port

[rrfranczak3]

if I were you I would go for the 2gb upgrade, because you said you do a lot with photos and if you want to run something like photoshop which is a pretty intensive program to run on a Mini, the 2gb will come in handy then..

PS: Welcome to the forum

[w7ox]

Originally Posted by dustin.weidner

hey, i looked around and could find my answers, here are my ?'s.

-can you run high quality displays off of the 10v?
-what hookups/adapters will I need? make sure these cables can keep the quality..
-will the 10v be sluggish with its 1gig ram? or should I opt to get the 2nd gig?
-what size displays can I look into getting?

first priority is quality, second is size. I deal with photos a lot and would like a larger resolution than this for when I need it. Thanks!

All this assumes you are running the 10v with a stock OS. Running OS X on the 10v makes use of external monitors a tad more challenging.

Phil

[dustin.weidner]

awesome, guys. thanks! I ran photoshop all day yesterday and 1gig of ram was o.k. but not great. I'm probably always going to be running windows on this little guy... just to make sure, I can get up to HD resolutions with our video card?

[holmes4]

Yes, as long as you don't go too crazy.

[chad142]

got the 2gb upgrade on mine(stock) but the hdmi works fine

[sonatacreative]

I've never had a prob with external displays on my mini running OSX. IF anything, I like the way OSX handles external displays better than windows- auto detect works really well- no messing with settings to get it just right.

Only caveat, is never set it to mirror in OSX... never EVER. You'll get some funky fireworks and will have to search the forums for the fix (which thankfully there is). Also, projectors don't work too well, but pretty much an LCD will work great out of the box. I've used mine on roughly 10 different unique displays now without any issues whatsoever.

[howflee]

Originally Posted by w7ox

All this assumes you are running the 10v with a stock OS. Running OS X on the 10v makes use of external monitors a tad more challenging.

Phil

Hi, I tried but my 10v w/ OSX does not detect an external monitor connection. What am I missing?

Thanks in advance for any advice...