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The New Dac Console

I'm rather pleased with my money saving prowess at the moment. The Company gave me a new notebook for work this year, which allows me to use it in "double head" mode, which means I can in effect use two monitors to increase the size of my desktop. Although usually quite stingy, The Company has managed to give me something to make me more efficient for a change. So props to them.

Anyway, trouble with any new technical toy is that I get used to and then addicted to them, so I've been wanting to setup my primary workstation at home as a double head machine. Plan One was to buy a Mac G5 and get two flat panel monitors. Price Range: Astronomical. Plan Two was to buy a graphics card for my (currently) primary workstation Tanagra which had two output ports. This was a much more reasonable plan. Even an expensive card with that requirement wouldn't be more than $300, and the cheapest I could find on NewEgg.com was about $150.

What I settled on was Plan Three, which involved salvaging the graphics card out of my Alpha Starscream, and putting it in Tanagra. I actually needed to put a different graphics card into Starscream anyway, in order to get her to run in 1600x1200 mode under Windows NT. I already had a 19" monitor, which has a dead pixel in the middle of the screen, but that is only noticeable if you look at it real closely. Total cost was Zero.

Systems

One day I do hope to get the G5, but it will have to wait until I have the extra capital on hand, or maybe when I can justify spending money on my photography "business."