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Hi, as we are still excited about XP on Mac and disappointed about the whole x1600 video card thing, and since we cannot use the video out from the MBP to an outside screen, you may want to be happy knowing that you can extend your desktop using another PC so that you can have more than one screen when running XP on the mac. I just successfully downloaded and used MaxiVista which uses VNC to enable you to extend your desktop www.maxivista.com The demo ran perfectly with my Vaio 1920*1200 laptop acting as the secondary monitor and with little lag once I had changed both to 32 bit color. It's awesome that it works and this way makes good use of old hardware or laptops lying around to be used as secondary monitors. Cheers!

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Hi, as we are still excited about XP on Mac and disappointed about the whole x1600 video card thing, and since we cannot use the video out from the MBP to an outside screen, you may want to be happy knowing that you can extend your desktop using another PC so that you can have more than one screen when running XP on the mac. I just successfully downloaded and used MaxiVista which uses VNC to enable you to extend your desktop www.maxivista.com The demo ran perfectly with my Vaio 1920*1200 laptop acting as the secondary monitor and with little lag once I had changed both to 32 bit color. It's awesome that it works and this way makes good use of old hardware or laptops lying around to be used as secondary monitors. Cheers!

 

Hi guys, I must apologize about the above, it seems that after rebooting my computer for an unrelated reason, the computer got hung up and would not start. I had to boot xp in safe mode and uninstall Maxivista and after that everything is back to normal. I tried it before rebooting and it worked fine, I am going to try reinstalling it and this time not ask it to start automatically at boot time and see if it helps. So, a premature victory, and needs more work, sorry if I got you guys down on the wrong track, if your machine stops booting, just press f5 or f8 after selecting XP and choose safe mode then remove the program from add/remove programs in the control panel... Peace :)

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