Change my Monitor, Change my Life: page 2

On the Flip Side

"Well, That's special", I muttered to myself. the PC was displaying an obviously squashed screen. The width was not off, but the vertical resolution was messed up.

No problem, a quick trip to the display's panel resulted in ... me determining that I needed an updated version of the video driver. OK, not a problem I'll just go find one and download it.

A few minutes later, I found that no, there was no update to the driver, and that no, there was no third party driver that would give me the proportions I needed, regardless of the fact that my built in video card had enough ram to run TWO of these monitors.

My next assumption was that I would have to buy a new video card. I could have lived with the squashed vertical, except that I used the PC to do my digital artwork.

You may ask, "How is it that a Mac guy is doing digital art on a PC?" Well, a long time ago, I bought a two hundred dollar Wacom tablet that worked really well on my Quadra 900, and I was happy. For some unknown reason, many years later, Apple decided that it was un-hip to have an ADB port on their laptops.

My Quadra, as well as many Mac's after it had long since perished, but my company provided laptop had an ADB port and I was still happily using my wacom tablet. Then I got issued my Powerbook Titanium, and my ADB port went away.

There's a long story about my ADB Wacom tablet and my trials and tribulations, which I won't get into here. Eventually however, I ended up without a tablet, but somehow I had the pen.

My buddy Mitch had a tablet but no pen, and no desire to use the tablet. All I needed was a PC, because THIS tablet used the old serial plug that can only be found on PC's. And THAT's how a Mac guy gets to the point where he's using a PC for art.