Typical users that love the added space
that a second additional Display provides :

• Managers/ Leading positions

  1. Display: large Excel-Sheet
  2. Display: email client/ database/
     
• Presenters
  1. Display: the slides that are shown
  2. Display: the speech in text form
• Journalists
  1. Display: Layout for Media / Online Information
  2. Display: News-Ticker / Web-Info / Mail-Client
     
• Outbound Employees
  1. Display: large report-sheet summing up duties & activities
  2. Display: remote Databank / specific
• Creative Professionals / Graphic Artist
  1. Display: large display of Quark XPress or other Document
  2. Display: Palettes and Tools
• Programmer
  1. Display: Application or Programming Tool
  2. Display: Debugger

High monitor compatibility

Several features of the MPDD Pro ensure that you won't miss out on anything your monitor can display, no matter if it is the latest and greatest model, or even a 10 year old 12" Apple fixed-frequency monitor which now is collecting dust. MPDD Pro brings it back to life.

The MPDD Pro supports the following groups of monitors without adapters:

• 17XX AV
• AppleRGB legacy sensing
• Studio Displays with VGA plug
• Modern VGA monitors with DDC EDID information
• Custom resolutions are read back from monitor DDC EIDID data block and implemented on the fly
• Old VGA monitors using any VGA cable (the MPDD does not misinterpret wrong VGA cables as Mac legacy monitors)
• Apple 13" b/w and Apple portrait monitors (c-sync is supported)
• Fixed-frequency Apple monitors

Deep Sleep

MPDD Pro supports the Deep Sleep Mode provided with the latest Mac OS X versions.

Gamma correction

Adjust the color levels according to both your needs and the color calibration system, thus ensuring colors on two separate displays can match.

Mac OS X

MPDD Pro supports Mac OS X from 10.1 to 10.3 and legacy Mac OS from 7.5.3 to 9.2.2.

Colorful appearance

Displaying Millions of colors up to 1600x1200@60Hz

Flexible resolutions

A large list of supported resolutions to match almost any monitor (from 12" to 24") and your needs from 320x200 pixels up to 1856x1392 pixels. (see table below). If the display implements additional custom resolutions, MPDD Pro is able to implement them on the fly.

Dynamic Desktop Doubler Resolutions

MPDD Pro offers a unique feature - Dynamic Desktop Doubler Resolutions. Desktop Doubler gives you quick access to a larger desktop than the size of the monitor. And "Dynamic" means that you only see the resolutions that makes sense for the settings and monitor you're using. This feature is enabled only on the operating systems that can support this feature: currently Mac OS X versions 10.2 and 10.3 do not support this feature. We're working actively with Apple to reintroduce it.

Multiple scan rate support

Each resolution is displayed with a choice of appropriate scan rates. Any monitor will work at its optimum when used with MPDD Pro. Refresh rates span the gamut from 25Hz TV interlaced mode to 160Hz.

Acceleration

The MPDD Pro graphic card specializes in supporting 2D operations.

Optimized acceleration drivers are available for Mac OS 7.5.3-9, MacOS X 10.1 and Mac OS X 10.2

No Fan

No noise, no hassles, no breakage.

Standard video connectors

Industry standard video connectors

VGA 15 pins, HD Sub-D

• Separate syncs
• DDC2b monitor sensing

Apple legacy connector (2 rows, 15 pins Sub-D)

• Separate syncs
• Composite sync
• Mac monitor sensing

Memory and graphic processor

• 16 MB of video memory
• Memory clock of 133 MHz
• 64-bit data path to the graphic processor
• Max. pixel clock of 230MHz

Without the necessity for 3D and DVD on the second monitor, the MPDD Pro ensures best performance at the least cost.

PCI slot requirements

• 33 or 66 MHz
• 7" (short) size (full size compatible)
• 3.3 V or 5 V
• Compatible with PowerMac and XServe G5 PCI-X slots

Benchmarking redefined

Years ago you waited on the video card to fill the monitor. Faster graphic cards meant less waiting and faster work. Today, video cards are so fast in 2D, that the card is waiting for you. Therefore faster graphic cards do not accelerate your work in desktop publishing applications such as Quark, PageMaker, Dreamweaver and other graphics applications you use every day. Thinking about how we could provide a tool that accelerates your work and makes working with your Mac more enjoyable, we discovered that it is not speed but desktop space! Screen real estate needed to hold your floating palettes, without covering the document you are working on. If you find yourself repeatedly hiding one application only to bring the other to the front, then MPDD Pro is for you. MPDD Pro provides the space you need to run multiple applications at the same time. So do not measure your video card with benchmarks. Instead, measure how much faster and easier you get your work done. By designing a video card specifically to power a second monitor, we used the most relevant criteria: low price, easy installation, best connectivity, "eye saving" refresh rates and many more.

Connection is everything Using MPDD Pro ensures that you don't miss anything your monitor can display. Whether it is the latest and greatest model, or even a10-year old 12 inch Apple fixed-frequency monitor which has been collecting dust. MPDD Pro brings it back to life. No adapters are needed and that means no hassles with ugly DIP switches or losing desktop space because the adapter and monitor cable combined are a foot long!

Less is more An optimized card design leads to less traffic and interrupt latency on the PCI bus. MPDD Pro consumes only a few Watts of power, has no fan that will wear out and cause the card to fail, no added noise, no added heat that lower at the stability of your entire Mac. Only one Extension comes with MPDD Pro for 2D acceleration. Fewer Extensions mean fewer system conflicts. And last but not least, the MPDD Pro costs less than other video cards.

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