Drivers
My MacBook has a 13 inch screen. Quite tiny. After a few hours of tapping on keys, my eyes feel like someone has used them as a punching bag. As the future unfolds, I spend more and more time on my MacBook. And so the 13 inches has got to grow.
This article convinced me I could save 2.5 hours per day with a larger monitor. Since I blindly believe everything I read, my decision was simple: buy a large monitor to connect to my MacBook.
Let me state for the record that I’m not an Apple Cultist. Steve Jobs is not the center of my universe. Steve offered me a 20 inch Apple monitor which costs $599. This monitor for $279 works just as well.
Gee: let me think about that one.
I bought it, got it home, opened it up. I grabbed the instructions, conveniently written in Spanish, and started making my way through the tangled web of “dos and dont’s”.
Page after page of the instruction manual was dedicated to Windows XP and Vista. After connecting the monitor, you had to run some special software to determine the maximum resolution your video card could support. Once you determined that, you had to determine how many colors your card could support. Then after all that testing, you had to select which driver to install onto your computer in order for it work properly. Reboot. After that, testing your blood type and IQ along with organ-donor compatibility was required.
Oh, and plugging this monitor into your computer may cause it to crash.
WTF?!?
I reached the end of the novel instructions. Not a single word written regarding Mac OSX. My heart sank at the realization that another trip to the store was in order to exchange this monitor for Mac compatible one. For a brief moment, calling Tech Support was an option. But my last experience with tech support was not pretty (see below).
Lord Google showed me a website where someone wrote “Yeah I just plugged it into my MacBook and it worked.”
Could it be that easy?
So, I just plugged it into my MacBook and it worked. By default, it set it up into a dual-monitor mode. Just what I wanted.
I love my Mac.
Rated PG. Recommend headphones.
