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hey guys John here again I'm gonna give you guys a walk through this time around of my dual screen monitor set up and show you guys how to do it and explain to you what some of the cool features are pretty simple one thing to notice I'm obviously using a MacBook Pro to do this with the DVI port you can do exactly the same thing with a macbook that has a mini DVI port so do this all you need is a mini DVI to DVI adapter I think it's something like 20 bucks from the Apple store so pretty inexpensive and do this with a macbook also one other thing guys if you want to check out some other cool reviews one of the guys who frequently posts on my my main page his name is echo fish that's II CKO fi SH he's in my subscriptions has some great videos also he's just starting up and needs your support and he's great with answering questions too if I don't know something and ask him a post over there and seen the two of us one of us should be able to get your questions answered anyway anyway guys enjoy any questions let me know thanks for watching and thank you guys for subscribing bye guys let's get started hopefully you can see the screens here I can't really zoom in anymore with my camera and get them both in the picture but let me do with what we got first thing I've got the Mac plugged into the monitor with standard deviation which is on the right side the MacBook Pro right here no adapter anything necessary I just plugged it in plugged in the back of the monitor and one cool thing the monitor came with a whole bunch of drivers for Windows this and that I just plugged it in with the Mac and it recognized it immediately which is very cool so once you get your monitor plugged in you have a couple different options if you go down to system preferences and click on displays pulls up whole bunch of different options now if you look here I've got a main option here with display or any even color on the other monitor it pulls up resolution so it actually knows already that you have two monitors and pulls up settings for each on on separate screens just very cool so resolutions for one color for one and color for the other that's independent so on display you can set the resolution for your monitor this one here is 1680 by 1050 it automatically recognizes that and then you click on arrangement and here's where you can select which monitor you want to be a primary you have to picture if you can drag them anywhere you want to make it the way you want it to look and this little white bar across the top is this main toolbar wherever you drag that is your main monitor so you can move it either way and you also have an option to to mirror the images as well so have the same thing shown on both so that's how you get your dual monitors working and now I have a setup pretty much as one giant monitor if you look I can move that over and it's being treated now is just one big monitor which is very nice great for things like you know browsing the web or doing some programming and opening up iTunes for example you know I can have iTunes open and playing right here open and playing well I am you know doing something else and still be able to see the whole window which is really nice but I've recently discovered the world of world of torrents and such so I've been using parallel a little bit more kinda want to take a chance damaging or getting a virus on the Mac which I know it's next impossible to do but I didn't want to risk it so this setup is actually very cool for parallels something I want to show you so I'll open up parallels and this will only work with virtualization software it won't you just will to do this with with boot camp so let me turn it on for you and show you guys something I think is pretty cool you're second to load still strangest thing Windows XP on the Mac but you know if it works by the way if anybody's in the market for a monitor I picked up the 22 inch HP w2 207 it's a glossy widescreen monitor and it's awesome I really like it I've got two USB ports which are really handy so something if you guys are in the market alright so now I've got parallel up and running if I move parallels over to my secondary window right here and I make it full screen by hitting alt enter rotate now I've got windows full screen here and my OS 10 full screen so I can use them both at the same time and have two full screens which is really cool man it's like having two separate computers running at once even though this is full screen I can still use that window if I need I can still drag stuff over if necessary but it makes life life easier for for doing anything you need to do in in Windows whether it's torrents or Microsoft Office or anything you're doing it's just very handy maybe this has been a kind of a real quick overview of the dual monitor setup on the Mac and honestly guys I set this whole thing up took three minutes and most of that was plugging it in to the outlet Macintosh and Apple in particular makes it really easy to do you know what I was shocked with my PC it took forever to get things set up so my guys that's a dual monitor like I said kind of conclusion you can set it up to be two separate two separate monitors you know if you use independently which is kind of what I have now have a treat as one big monitor if you like or have it be mirrored and show the same image now also now with let me close parallels here for you guys I know some people one might want to use your computer and clamshell mode and still still use the monitor so that's something I will show you guys here let me just quit out of parallel shutdown at all and with two monitors you can also use a clamshell mode meeting keep your laptop closed and use your external display as your primary only monitor something that you can you can do and do it very easily I am going to show you how to do that right now all you do take your computer close it turn it on like normal close it up it's gonna go to sleep I can normally would alright so the computer is essentially asleep now which means to turn the monitor off monitors going to sleep as you can see so to wake it up actually you can just push a button any button on the keyboard give it a second will wake up no calibrate the monitor and there you go now I've got my computer working clamshell mode with the only one monitor nice immunity so there's another another option for you guys with the computer closed it doesn't get any hotter than it did with an open like normal so say is a pretty similar temperature of about 140 degrees Fahrenheit I don't know what that is for Celsius for you European folk and Canadian but it stays the same temperature I know guys it's just a real quick overview of the monitors dual monitor system give any questions feel free to ask thanks for watching thanks for subscribing and hope you have good afternoon and night or evening this is John for Lakers signing off